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Well, last night After some fun times with REZ HD, a friend told me to check out the Turok demo from Marketplace. I thought to myself, well it might be decent as the first 2 games from the n64 days. 1.19 gbs later, i start the demo, and i found out that the game uses unreal engine 3, which i'm not a huge fan off. Once the game starts, everything else spells generic. The characters even Turok, look like Gears of War clones, and the graphics are pretty bad for a game that utilizes the shitty unreal 3 engine. The weapons are nothing special, the bow is pretty much useless. Dinosaurs look pretty good, and deaths are fun. Knife kills are the only fun part of the game, but they're pretty much useless, since the dinosaurs move 10x faster than you. The controls are unresponsive, and the framerate was pretty slow.



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I downloaded it too, played it for about 30 seconds, then deleted it from my harddrive. It was too dark, and visually unappealing, and didnt seem to offer anything special.



It was pretty damn bad. Turok 2: Seeds of Evil and the first one to a lesser degree were both bitching games though.



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was pretty meh, id rather pay 60 for rez then 10 bucks for turok.



Note: Some games in my collection are no longer owned, but have owned.

Sucked arse... hated it Turok sucks, and will continue to suck.

Will it kill another company? Probably not.



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First time I played it, thought it was decently good, but upon closer inspection (replay), I have completely crossed this off my list, too many better games in the next couple months (like 18).

Still it will probably sell well because of no big new shooters releasing around it and the dinos and maybe even some name recognition (nostalgia).

Overall it is a disappointment. Although I think the Turok series as a whole is viewed too favorably. Even the first game, the supposedly good one (which I own to this day for the N64) was 'eh' if you go back to it objectively (minus nostalgic outlook).



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1 word: boring



It's absolutely terrible. Just horrendous on every level. Stick this one next to Blacksite and Jericho and all the other lousy shooters.



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