Turok 2: Seeds of Evil

by Acclaim

Product Details

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• ASIN: B00002SFL4
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: February 9, 1999
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #32,146 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: PC

Amazon.com Review

Let's start with the good news--Turok 2: Seeds of Evil throws hordes of superbly animated evil mutants and overevolved dinosaurs into the range of an arsenal that makes other games' weapon collections look like lonely baseball bats hanging on a beat-up pickup truck's rifle rack. Start with a battle-claw for hand-to-hand combat and a bow and arrow for longer shots, then move up to plasma rifles and a heat-seeking missile launcher. Since you can't fire heat-seeking missiles underwater, Turok 2 has specialized SEAL-style weapons, such as a harpoon gun and concussion torpedoes. When mere human-sized weapons aren't enough, saddle up on the back of a friendly dinosaur and charge into battle, firing a dino-mounted 20mm cannon.

Want more good news? OK. Unlike many first-person shooter games, Turok 2 provides its bad guys with decent artificial intelligence. You may have to dodge mutants working together to set up a crossfire, or run down enemies who are too smart to just step in front of your weapons. And while you're shooting all the evil monsters and tracking down cowards who flee from your big guns, you'll enjoy well-rendered scenery from five different worlds.

If this sounds great to you, and you enjoy exploring strange alien environments and shooting nearly everything that moves, you'll enjoy Turok 2.

But there are some problems that might prevent you from enjoying it completely. The biggest annoyance is that the game's excellent artificial intelligence isn't matched by intelligent-level design. This is one of those games that requires you to search every corner to find the key you need to unlock the door on the other side of the honeycomb of tunnels. You'll need to use the game's mapping tools to make sure you've looked behind each big door for the small clues and behind each small barrel for the big clues. If you're a master of the Zen of Just-Wandering-Around, Turok 2 won't bother you; but if you're the type of gamer who wants to feel a sense of urgency or a sense that your actions are meshing with a larger story, you may end up tapping your fingers and thinking about other challenges. --Rob Heinsoo

Pros:

• Diverse arsenal of powerful and original weapons
• Great monster animation and monster death-throes
• Smart monsters who run away and team up against you
• Decent multiplayer game

Cons:

• Inconsistent-level design
• No sense of urgency

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Quite an intense in depth game., July 27, 2000

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Justin Lloyd (Boise, ID) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Turok 2: Seeds of Evil (CD-ROM)

Personally, I thought Turok 2 was an awesome game. The graphics were very good, the sound effects were good, and the music was by far some of the best Acclaim has come out with. This game has some sweet levels. Most are very large and take quite some time to explore. And with levels like The Hive, you feel like you're actually there. Extremely gripping and intense. As some have said, there aren't the tons and tons of monsters to blow away around every corner, but if you want a game like that, play DOOM. In Turok 2, the monsters are a little more realistic. Hordes and hordes of monsters isn't realistic, but a group of about 2 or 3 waiting in ambush around a corner is. Very well done. I've played it through several times and I enjoyed it every time.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, for it's five minutes of fame..., July 17, 2001

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"theflyingcow" (A room with walls of flashing color and tables on the ceiling, but chairs on the floor.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Turok 2: Seeds of Evil (CD-ROM)

This game was excellent in the special effects, sound, most-of-the-graphics departments. It's graphics could still compete with games like Unreal Tournament, they wouldn't win any game-of-the-year awards, but they wouldn't be automatically discounted. It's AI has it's moments, for example, unlike the brutes in Unreal, they don't just head straight at you pistols blazing. Instead they'll hide when you're sporting a big old can o' whoopass. Also, ambient noises, music, and other such audio effects are great, for example, even the two different pistols (normal, and mag 60) make different noises.

But, with the more recent games coming out like Unreal Tournament, Half-Life, and Quake, it isn't possible for this game to stay in the spotlight. First of all, it's storyline/levels are too slow, and Turok walks way too slowly. Second, what kind of bases/enemy homelands (second two-thirds of the game's levels) have conveniently placed savepoint systems installed just for their enemies?

I give it five stars considering that it still makes at minimum a decent addition to one's game collection, and, for fans of the Turok series, it may even be a excellent one. Of course, I was hoping they'd make a PC version of Rage Wars for the internet, and also bring Turok 3 to PC too. I hear the graphics and AI in T3 have drastically improved, unfortunately, I've all but stopped buying N64 games in the wait for "Dolphin" or "Gamecube", whatever they're gonna call it. So I probably won't buy it until it's price goes down to that of Turok 2's. By then it'll be out of date and I won't want it.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The area's are too, Long!, September 19, 2000

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Hjjf (Cambidge OH USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Turok 2: Seeds of Evil (CD-ROM)

I am a huge Turok fan, But this was My least favorite. It's still good, Don't get Me wrong, But the area's are way too long. It take's like a week or so, To get past the first level! Still, it's pretty good. And it's really fun, With cheat's.

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