Turok The.....Hey??? What happened?
Lets start with the good.
Graphically its a awesome game. The dinosaurs pretty much move smoothly. The graphics feel...."Turoky" lol. It feels like Turok. No real complaints here (those are later really).
The music and sound were pretty good too. Since the environment is a jungle (some times) the music pumps up the situation and keeps you edgy. The sound helps freak you out too when you your trying to figure out whats going on and all you hear are screeches all around.
The gameplay is pretty simple. Simpler then most games for that matter. Your knife will be your most popular weapon and when its not you learn when to use which weapons and when not to. Although I can see diffrent players will play diffrent ways but they really made so you won't have a choice with your knife. Online they have AI dinos that run around and kill people! Would make for interesting play if online wasn't horrible.
Story wise its not horrible but its really nothing new. Crashed ship, get off planet. The details you have to see for yourself.
Whats so bad about the game though that I gave it a 5.0? Well Turok use to be a game where you could have a blast in MP or facing a friend on the same system. Most of that is all ruined. Besides that there are some major problems and actually no real minor problems!
There is no 2 player at ALL. You can online play online and thats it. So if you were looking to have a good old bow/knife fight for old times sake your stuck unless you play online separately.
Online is horrid for two reasons. 1, you almost never find a server without lag. About the only time there is no lag is when your down to about 2-4 people and by then its barley fun to play. 2, the knife is really the only thing people use. I wouldn't usually complain but the weapons are so bad online that you can't really kill anyone as they charge you so most of the time they can run up to you and you end up dead. This really makes online no fun since its mostly knife fights. Needs more balance.
Now in single player theres two things also that make the game incredibly painful.
1. There is no easy. You get to choose from medium or hard. I prefer just beating a game on easy first and enjoying a game since I have about 3-4 days to beat a game then get another one. Then going back and beating on harder difficulties if I have time or like it that much
2. Because medium is still pretty hard at times you die alot and since alot of factors make the game hard...bad teammates, turoks low health, constant swarms.....you seem to die over and over and over. Well the save system is horrible. So if you can manage to get past 35 guys, 20 dinos and get right to the next check point like 3 miles away but at the last second get killed by a dino you didn't see. Guess what? You have to start from the very beginning again. This wouldn't be that bad if the game wasn't so brutal at times. You will end up doing some section 4,5,6,7...heck 10 times before you make it through.
To add to this is the fact that the game shows no mercy. At one point (I will not spoil) there is a boss of sorts that when it does what it does by the time you get up it does its thing again and you fall back down. It takes tons of times before you can even figure out what you are suppose to do right. The game does a bad job at at least hinting at "Hey do this!" or giving you a fighting chance.
Well aside from those major complaints the only minor complain I had is as violent and bloody as this game is THERE IS NO HUMAN BLOOD! You can knife a man a hundred ways and you see sparks! It totally kills the realism when you kill a dino and see gore but then kill a human the same way and see silly sparks.
Overall Turok is a pretty good game that in the end its really just about having fun hunting and being hunted by dinos. The lack of good MP OR 2P mode kills...oh and the crappy save system. Its worth the rental but not buying.