Number 45: Turok: Dinosaur Hunter
I have always been fascinated by dinosaurs, as far back as I can remember and Turok was terrifying and awesome all at once. The sounds the beast made, their hulking appearance and the clinging atmosphere was enough to keep me glued to the TV for hours.
It featured some pretty impressive stealth gameplay for its time and sneaking around and timing a perfect headshot with a bow and arrow was fantastic!
The level design was pretty straightforward as far as FPS go but it featured a lot of outdoors environments, which was not very common in this genre back then.
The controls were super tight and the hushed, drum-driven music matched your pulse perfectly as you crept about looking for fresh prey, or potentially stumbled into something that made you its prey.
Awesome game and one of my favourite N64 titles, this was also a great showcase for the N64's somewhat haphazard controller, along with Goldeneye 64 which released later in the same year, the surprisingly clever Z-trigger underneath and soft analogue stick were made for titles like this.
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