"A bootleg dinosaur hunting experience..."
GOOD: Fun, gory knife animations are fun and very brutal. Satisfying knife cinematics are also quite entertaining as well. The dinosaurs look and act great, the AI in this game are very intellegent!. The dinosaurs actually try to flank you, and most of the time they are successful. The voice animations are great and the intense atmosphere of this game always keep players on their toes. for example, when walking through a forest, one may hear some leaves rustling, it could be just your allie walking, but suddenly a big dinosaur pops out and tries to bite your freaking head off! The sound affects in this game are great too. Decent multi-player and weapons help to make this game good as well. ( If you can even find anyone playing online)
BAD: The entire game is VERY repetitive. Environments are re-used VERY often as well as characters. The things that some of the characters say are very stupid most of the time, like "This place would be better if it weren't dark..." (Your in a hostile alien planet filled with dangerous dinosaurs and people who would kill you on sight, there is more things to worry about than being in the dark) or "don't let the dinosaurs eat you.." (Well duh!, don't let the damn dinosaurs eat you, it's not neccessary to say those things). The multi-player is decent, but players can spend the whole match knifing. It means that a player can EASILY kill you with the knife animation, they can go the entire match without using guns or grenades etc. The weapons in this game feels really weak most of the time. For example, if you spend 200 bullets on one single human character, they may just come back up and still be alive. Also, aiming in this game is very frustrating, especially when you aim the gun (or in this case a bow) perfect and you still miss; it goes right through them. When you do miss, the enemies are alerted and you get killed.There are VERY FEW saves and checkpoints in this game, so when you spend one hour on a certain part of a level, and you get killed you have to start all over. Not that many people play online, so forget online play. Also when you shoot or stab a human character, sparks come out. WHAT THE HELL? Isn't Turok known to be a violent, brutal scifi-shooter?!?!?!? The graphics aren't all that great either, I would rate it an 8/10.
OVERALL: Turok has the potential to be a very great game. It has fun gameplay and great characters. The action is very fun and fast pace, but several minor flaws keep Turok from being the great game that it should be. I would recommend it to be a rental, don't waste $65 bucks on this game when you can spend it on some other better game such as Call of Duty 4 or Halo 3.
Graphics: 8/10
Sound: 8/10
Gameplay: 7/10
Value: 7/10
Tilt: 8/10