"Worth checking out"
The story is extremely predictable for a sci-fi game (marines get stranded on a planet inhabited by killer dinosaurs while trying to capture a criminal who has an army there) but I didn't buy it for story.
The graphics are great (this runs on the Unreal engine) but the textures on the rocks, grass, etc. are pretty mediocre.
The Gameplay is fun and the dinosaurs make it even more of a blast to play but the levels are linear and one things that was supposed to be a main selling point bugs me. This is that you can go through each battle two different ways, being stealthy and taking everyone out silently or running in guns blazing. I found it hard to stealth kill everyone for one reason, just when your about to get a kill an oblivious soldier someone spots you and you are forced to kill everyone in a standard FPS process. Shoot, Kill, Repeat. After trying stealth a couple times I just gave up and took all the enemies out with loud, attention grabbing guns. Speaking of guns, the aiming in this game is hard to control. Most of the time hitting a moving target is hard because aiming is so slippery. eventually I got used to this and adjusted but it still is difficult. Weaponry is standard, ranging from an SMG to a Pulse Rifle but two weapons really stick out, the Knife and the Bow and Arrow. These weapons are awesome and tie to the main character's Indian background. the knife is crazy powerful but this is a blessing and a curse. Using the knife is awesome in the campaign because there is nothing like stabbing a dinosaur in the eye after getting attacked.(More on dinos later) But the knife can suck because many Multiplayer matches boil down to knife battles. (once again, more on this later) the bow is like a sniper rifle and is great for taking out enemies from a distance.
The dinosaurs are basically what make Turok great. Getting tooken on by large groups of raptors or Dilos and winning is awesome, especially when the Dinosaur happens to be a freakin T-rex. Using the dinosaurs to take out enemies is even more exciting and can result in maniacal laughs towards your helpless victims. Eventually you'll face mutated bugs but they aren't as memorable as the dinos.
Voice acting is phenomenal but the dialogue spoken is boring. (Think, Gears of War)
The game's difficulty is very uneven, partially because of uneven checkpoints and because of battles themselves. Frequently, when I would die I would expect to be placed at say a point i had reached two minutes earlier, turns out I would end up at a part 10 MINUTES earlier. Enough said about that. The battle problem happens only a couple times but it is frustrating when you keep dying because you are being shot at by 5 different angles.
Overall the campaign is very fun, but the problems I stated lowers the fun.
Now on to the multiplayer. Two words, Lag and Knifes. I have only found two lag free matches to date so many matches I played looked like a flipbook. Now to knifes, as I stated earlier, most matches boil down to people trying to circle others who actually use guns. And they suceed, making much matches frustrating. One more thing to cover, dinos inhabit some maps but they don't usually get in the way beacuse you can walk around them.
In conclusion Turok is a "Rent before you buy"
****NOTE***** This is my first review so don't expect much, Also i'm only a teenager.