Initially very gripping from the start... theme and concept very inviting.. but a game that lacks finish.

User Rating: 7 | Turok (Steelbook Edition) PS3
I was excited about turok for the ps3. mainly because there wasn't anything out there soo inviting besides unreal tourny... but, turok is a beautifull game but the elements and the detail are a bit flat. not that this takes away soo much from the game but compared to games like uncharted or even grears of war this game could have been considerably better. my main issues with this game : the screen seems to be too zoomed in... like theres no sense of whats around you visually. its too close. maybe if the developers zoomed out a little it would relieve me of the paranoia of looking around hysterically just to see whats next to me.

Secondly, the controlls are by far the worst controls i've felt in a long time. and its very difficult to get your reticle on your target especially while running. Not asking for an auto aim here but a slight tweak in that department would help. you find yourself trying to aim more times that you actually pull the trigger hoping you hit something WHILE STANDING STILL. It the soldier is doing the "soldier boy" you definetly wont hit him unless you don't move at all.

Weapon reload times are sluggish and slow. and the knife play is soo hillarious that it makes no sense in running trying to use it because by the time it locks on to target and you press the trigger you do this weak slash and nothing happens. i was fighting this guy online and we were weak slashing each other for nothing short of 15 seconds then a dinosaur had to seperate us and solve our pathetic altercation by killing kim. i let the dinosaur make it because that was the best thing he could have done for both of us. i happily ran off reminding myself never to do that again.

the shotgun functions as a pistol and it takes 4 to 5 shots just to kill someone. I shot a dinosaur in the tail with the sniper rifle and it collapsed and died. game mechanics here are horrible but it is an ok game. i'm not that much upset. the soldiers are the dumbest i've seen in a while too next to black for the original x box. they are 2 steps away from utterly pathetic. enemy AI is just preschool here.

Game load times are another annoyance. thats the only reason i dread dying other than the fact that the game saves for such long occurrences meaning you can get to an area fight countless enemies move on for a bit die and find yourself doing that all over again. But overall its an ok game and very entertaining none the less. Holla it was fun ;)