Customer Reviews

Turok

5 star:		(6)
4 star:		(10)
3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

Turok is an entertaining game that doesn't deserve a lot of the negative reviews it's getting. To avoid being repetitive, I'll simply list the game's pros and cons, and then let potential buyers decide if it's a game for them:

Pros -
1. Challenging - I found Turok much harder than many first person shooters. There were several areas that took me many tries to finish. Turok blends strategy with a run and shoot approach - you can usually plan your attack, but rarely is there anywhere to hide. The boss fights in particular were well done.
2. HUD - there isn't one, which may surprise/annoy some die-hards, but I found it refreshing. When you get hit, the periphery of the screen becomes red and you have to heal. If you take too many hits in a short period of time, you die. If you rest without being attacked, you heal fully. As I've noted, this makes Turok challenging - you don't have any special abilities (Crysis, FEAR) or armor (Half-Life, STALKER), and there aren't medkits lying all over the place (basically every shooter).
3. Dinosaurs - Just for the novelty of it. I mean, how often do you get to fight dinosaurs? Plus, graphically speaking, the dinos are the high point of the game.
4. Graphics - not the typically realistic Crysis style, but they still work. I found them immersive in a weird way. Others may disagree.
5. Weapon secondary fire - many of the secondary options on the weapons were creative and enjoyable. Many areas were almost impassible without using secondary fire; sometimes you needed to turn the mini-gun into a turret, fire a flare with the shotgun, or use the pulse-rifle's disruption grenades. I never got tired of using the knife's silent attack on dinos, though some have objected to the third person cut-scenes.
6. Checkpoints - huge plus in my opinion. There is supposed to be a quicksave, but it doesn't work, and I think that is a tremendous blessing in disguise. It makes the game even harder, which is saying something. Some of the checkpoints are easy, but others are very difficult. This may sound annoying, but only if you don't like a challenge. I never got tired of replaying the tough areas.
7. Production - Turok is well-designed and well-produced. I did not experience a single crash or bug during play. The levels were mostly well-made and had decent variety. The AI is solid. The plot doesn't get in the way. In general a well-made game.

Cons -
1. Repetitive - Turok has little replay value. It is very entertaining the first time, but so linear that it would lose a lot of its charm the second time around. The game just isn't very varied; some shooters you can replay to take a different approach or use a different weapon, but I can't think of many places in Turok where I would change anything the second time.
2. Weapon variety - Like I said, the secondary features are great, but there isn't much variety. Nothing speaks to this more than having weapons you receive early in the game - the shotgun and pulse rifle - being the most effective weapons against the final boss. Indeed, I used the pulse rifle basically the whole game, because I found it the most useful against both mercs and dinos. The other weapons are too specialized, so much so that they are a liability in many fights (mini-gun is too unwieldy etc). The good news is that you have a lot of opportunities to change weapons.

Other than that, Turok is a fun game - light on plot, heavy on action!

Ok first of ifind many reviews of this game overly critical< i found teh game quite enjoyable though not all together entirely imerseing, That's not a bad thing , as sometimes it is great to have a game you can just play and stop (i do have to tend to my game art design homework for school)

first lets look at this games good points

1. Kick A-- graphics Via Unreal 3 engine
2. solid Level Design that is never confusing not frustrating
3. nice story
4. fun game play particularly the dino spots
5. KICK A-- knife scenes when you do a special knife kill

Now the bad

1. not optimised properly for the PC and couldn't find a patch (in a very very few spots i ahd to turn my resolution down run at deccent frames , I have a very nice comp adn it runs UT3 flawlessly so this tells me they didnt really work on optimization for the pc version)
2. the drop/pick weapon system was a tad confusing but not to distracting
3. the knife cut scenes mention on the good list, ogt old after a while as tehy lacked variety



Now For stuff i think peple were overly critical of

1. copying other FPSers , ok lets fact the facts here , today there really isnt much new you can do with shooters that hasnt already been done, while this game didn't bring any thing new to the table i can say waht it did do , it did well, it didnt break any thign about the engine it was built on, in that respect I was a quite solid game and i really can't understad why peopel would critize it for doing something that COUNTLESS shooters do regardless of rather or not thy are on the top of the cream, EVERY Shooter in some part boorws ideas from a diferent shooter, this is how genres work, if they didnt then there woudlnt be a need for genres in teh first place.

2. Linear game, well of course , not every game can be an oblivion , or a GTA. sure this one didnt offer the sprawlign enviroments of stalker , or the little sand box feel of GTA and Far cry.I t did offer a good story and some tactical variety you can play throguh it and do thigns differnetly to a degree. and quite hoenstly i'm sick of this sand box game mentality, the way i figure , it a sandboxc doesnt suit the story , then why have it ? and on turok i don't a sand box would have fit this game and story , so i think people have been rather harsh in thier persepective on this issue in their reviews.


with all that said , i'd say the game is well worth at least 39 US dollars , i had the fortune of graping it at 8 bucks from here, if you can get it at a deal then do so it would be a steal.

now the run down of my general avargae frame rate while palying
in most spots my machine kept this game running at 40-60 fps at 1280x1024 witha f ew spots it dropped to 18-25 not bad but the game could have used some beter optimazations here.

now my machine specs :

AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ Black edition (oc'ed to 3ghz)
2 gigs of Giel DDR2-800(pc6400) ram
Sound blaster X-fi xtreme music sound card
Nvidia Geforce 9600GT 512 mb vid ram (from Leadtek)



P.S. There is NO DRM on this game !!!!! :) so no hassles didnt even ahve a cd key , jsut a disk check to see if the g me is in the drive which shouldnt be an issues for any one two disck drives)

What is truly amazing with this game is how trivial it looks and how fast it generates a feeling of "been there - done that". Yes, even if someone is new to the TUROK series - and I am not: I came with high expectations.

Graphically the game is beautiful yet not very original - and I for one did not appreciate the ever present darkness...The designers probably aimed for atmospheric terror but they obviously overshot their mark. Apples and oranges, but Hitchcock always had his terrors well lit - and that made them unforgettable. There are quite a few cheap shots in this area.
The dinosaurs are, well, ...JurassicPark-realistic (honestly, seen any real-life dinosaur lately?), whereas their growls and high-pitched pack-hunting sounds will keep raising the hairs in the back of your head no matter how many times encountered.

The occasional sidekick's AI is neither brilliant nor disastrous. At least it is not a burden (remember DAIKATANA anyone?). I liked the weapons, both the realistic and the futuristic ones. The gameplay is pretty straightforward but I would have liked more freedom in remapping the control keys (certain choices are not possible).

What I particularly did NOT like was the insertion of a (video) TP perspective whenever climbing stairs, opening doors or killing with the Kabar knife. I came across this peculiar approach in another game as well, TURNING POINT, in which it also outright ruined any immersion attempt.

If I could I would rate it at 2&1/2 stars but decided to be generous (the little boy in me is still fascinated by dinosaurs) and rounded it up. The game makes par but is probably currently overpriced.

My advice: wait for its fossil to hit the sale bins.

I got the game last Friday and it's now Monday played it through the weekend and I've played about 20 hours and died at least 25-30 times since then. I'm only barley into the game at the base and have to escape and just can't make it past the elevator part without dieing. It has good graphics and neat story but the only downfall is it's tough game and the save doesn't work and some of the Xbox 360 controls don't work all the time and there are some bugs throughout the first part of the game like everything will disappear and you can only see parts of the world.

This game sucks! If u like playing the same parts over and over again, then by all means buy this game. There are multiple times when u die and the game gets hung up somehow and ur in limbo and have to restart from an earlier point. There is no quick saves, even though the game has a button for it. The ending is practically impossible so if u like to finish games like I do, you will be spending almost as much time as it took u to play the entire game at the end just to finish it! Go buy Call of Duty 4 and be happy!

Turok is a first-person shooter set in the future and has no ties with previous games in the storyline. Released in 2008, Turok was the first game developed by the Canadian founded studio of Propaganda Games. In the game you play as Joseph Turok, a former member of a mercenary company called Wolf Pack. Turok, who is now a member of Whiskey Company is largely distrusted and despised by his new platoon-mates due to his previous involvement in Wolf Pack. Whiskey Company ironically is now ordered to capture the rogue leader of Wolf Pack, Roland Kane, who was also Turok's mentor. When Whiskey Company's spaceship is suddenly hit by a missile it crashes onto the planet Roland Kane is rumored to have taken refuge upon. After surviving the crash Turok and his allies find that the planet has been terra-formed resulting in increased evolution of species, which of course like previous Turok games, includes dinosaurs. Turok must survive the perils of the planet while locating and confronting Roland Kane. Here are my thoughts on Turok;

Pros

+ Extremely realistic graphics and behavior on the dinosaurs. You can clearly see that's what the developers focused on.

+ Excellent soundtrack composed by Paul Ruskay (Sword of the Stars) fits the mood and feel of the game.

+ Superb voice acting from a cast of well-known personalities such as Ron Perlman, Timothy Oliphant and Donnie Wahlberg.

+ Finishing moves are brutal and never tiresome to watch.

+ Dual-wielding guns.

+ Dinosaurs can be lured and used to kill tougher opponents both human and otherwise.

Cons

- Way too linear even for a FPS.

- Lacks a decent variety of dinosaurs.

- Too short.

- Difficult to gauge whether bosses are taking damage during fights or not. Especially when fighting T-Rex's.

- Many of the environments are graphically bland and repetitive. Rock and jungle textures get old pretty quickly.

Many fans of previous Turok games will easily write this installment off as bad. I don't have an opinion either way regarding the franchise, I just love fighting dinos! I tend to play a lot of FPS games. That being said, I enjoyed Turok for what it was, a dinosaur shoot-em-up-fest. Turok doesn't really do anything to advance the FPS genre (difficult to do these days) however it was an entertaining but short dino-ride. At the current price of only a few dollars you can't really complain much for what you get.

this is a big green game. the whole thing is in a jungle with bad soldiers and neat dinos. its a fun fun shooter. the dialog is clever the fighting is fun and hard and its a good good game i just wish i could find a sequal to it. The creatures are very life like.

Turok is a game that should have been tested more before being released.

This game made my computer artifact for no reason (my pc wasn't even hot), and no other game does that.--I have played many modern games such as multible unreal 3 engine games, which turok is, source games, crytek games such as far cry and crysis/crysis warhead.

This game is broken: Triggers mess up. Sometimes in a level if you don't run through it just right, triggers won't go off, and then I end up having to reload the area because im unable to move on. I even had a broken trigger that let me skip the 2nd boss!

Quicksaves don't work. Quicksave will save how much ammo you got, but when you hit quick load it'll take you back to the check point and you have to kill all the bad guys again.


Odd Lazyness!: I notice the grass that you run through are SPRITES!, yes sprites!-pictures not graphical models. If I do a 360 around the grass follows me around.

Drive space?: This game takes up a crazy 15.1GB of space, officially the biggest install size I ever seen. The funnny thing is the game is only 14 levels long, and each level really isn't that long. Part of the reason is because there is 5-6GB of audio when you do a complete install.-this audio includes 6 different languages. That still means the game itself is roughly 10gb... making it the second biggest game I ever seen (removing the audio).

i orginally bought the game cause i thought it was dino hunting. well when i played i thought wowsers i was wrong. now the graphics in this game are the best of the best call of duty is no where near the graphics i bought this for ps3 and may buy it for pc. the acting is awsome the voices are my favorites, and the guns i wish had like m16 and modern guns but this is the future so i see. but the smg is my favorite looking i want one. the knifing scenes are my favorite to watch. the dino kill is cool. but not many people if not no one plays online on ps3 which i was looking forward to. i wish more did. this game is very good the story line is nice graphics are better then any game on market the people are like navy seals and clone troopers mixed if you ask me. heavy muscle. killing the dino is very realistic lots of blood from shooting them in one spot aka double tapping laying a bullet on top of the othear. over all the people that give it under 4 stars only play fps like call of duty and never play games with storylines and what other games. just cause 2 is one of those republic commando. i recommend this to people that like games with storylines and have a story around everything.

This game was pretty good overall, but disappointing in many ways. If you're looking for a cheap single-player FPS that lets you kill dinosaurs, then you'll probably like this game. Just don't have too high of expectations, and you won't be disappointed. A few points to consider:

1) The game is very linear: you don't really have a choice in how to respond to problems, nor can you make any choices which affect the story. You basically just move forward through each level and do what your NPC allies tell you to do. Often there isn't even more than one route to take. Moreover, the story of the game was lacking. It had potential, but was poorly executed, so that anytime something interesting comes up, it's quickly interrupted by some new and often-uninteresting event.

2) The game does feature some very diverse and interesting weapons, but as others have mentioned the overall selection is very limited. In addition, since you can only carry 2 weapons as a time (in addition to the bow and knife), you will often have to gamble on whether picking up a new weapon will be worthwhile for the enemies you expect to encounter (dinos, bugs, mercs). Each weapon has it's own specialization and can be very effective in certain situations, but not very useful in others.

3) While some may not care, I personally was annoyed by the difficulty of remaining stealthy. The knife requires you to sneak up without being seen, which is particularly difficult indoors, and the bow takes a couple seconds to fire, giving them plenty of time to spot you. Throughout the game there was only ever two or three places where you could effectively be stealthy, and even then it hardly pays off for your time.

4) This game suffered in a few other areas of gameplay. Your character cannot sprint at all, which means that you always move at the same speed. This makes avoiding enemies or closing the distance for knife kills much harder. You do have the ability to roll to the side, but I found this to only be very useful on boss fights. I also found that while using the knife on dinos was really fun (who doesn't want to tackle a raptor and slit it's throat??), it was often difficult to trigger the attack on moving dinos, even if they are right in front of you.

5) I found the boss fights in this game to be very inconsistent and generally frustrating. I don't want to give away anything, but essentially several of the fights either took a long time to figure out what you had to do or required you to do something counter-intuitive. These were probably the worst part of the game, in my opinion.

6) The graphics for this game were rather unimpressive, but didn't really take away from the overall game experience.