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Gun-toting lizard men invade Jurassic Park

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 21 / 23
Date: October 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Turok Evolution is a first person adventure game and part time flight simulator. Don't ask about the story because I have absolutely no idea what's going on. It's about some Indian guy who's trapped in Jurassic Park, and there are gun-toting lizard men on the loose (I kid you not).

You play as Tal'Set (the Indian guy), and it's your job to fight the tyrannical lizard men who are apparently a threat to peace and harmony in The Lost Land.

The jungle scenery and animals are all very nice. You can walk right up to a stegosaurus or brachiosaurus to get a good look at them. The triceratops, on the other hand, wants to mow you down. The T-Rex makes a cameo appearance in one level. Raptors and baby raptors will come after you and try to take a bite out of you. Crocodiles and mountain lions will also come after you. There are turtles and other small animals, and even the occasional butterfly flitting around.

In addition to all these animals, the jungle is populated by gun-toting lizard men. To the game's credit, those crazy lizard men take cover whenever possible. They hide behind rocks, behind trees... whatever they can find. This makes for some realistic and entertaining shootouts. There are also some really cool sniping opportunities. Among your weapons is a "tek bow". It has a sniper scope attached to it, and you can use it to zoom in on far away terrain, then you can zoom in even further to get a good look at an unsuspecting lizard man who hasn't even seen you yet.

You can do all kinds of cool stuff with the "tek bow". You can put an arrow through some poor sap's eyeball at what looks like two hundred feet off. Lots of fun. You can take a guy's arm off and then watch as he looks over at his gushing stump in shock. If there's another guy nearby, he'll freak when he sees his suddenly armless buddy and start firing his weapon blindly. You can take a guy's leg off if you so desire. In addition, you can get explosive arrows (one hit anywhere on the body, and the guy explodes into chunks). There are also poison arrows. When you hit a guy with one of these babies, he'll start convulsing after a couple seconds and start puking his guts out (in graphic detail). It's pretty hilarious. Loads of fun. Those crazy lizard men have many entertaining ways of dying.

The rest of your weapons include grenades, the aforementioned .45 pistol, a shotgun, a flechette gun, a flamethrower, a rocket launcher, and futuristic weapons like a plasma rifle and gravity disruptor (the latter of which can be used to grab a guy in an energy field and then slam him into a wall or drop him off a cliff).

This is an impressive arsenal; but unfortunately, all of the good action takes place during the first four chapters (which are segmented into levels). That's about sixteen levels of good gaming. There's some great scenery as Tal'Set explores the jungle, climbs a mountain side, traverses a large canyon, and descends the other side of the mountain. Then he has to quietly infiltrate the lizard mens' base and sneak around at night, sniping guards in towers and on the ground.

Then things go downhill as you're fighting through the drab corridors and rooms of an underground complex. This progresses into a large city, with yet more uninspired and dull scenery. This fills the majority of the game. The fighting is intense and engaging, but the scenery isn't very interesting. After a while, it becomes downright monotonous. Quantity (of levels) over quality.

The visuals in the great outdoors are great, for the most part. All of the scenery looks appropriately realistic... until you get close to some bushes; then they become pixelated. You can also approach a wall of foliage and see a pre-rendered background behind it. This is somewhat distracting from what is otherwise a realistic looking environment. The interiors of the underground complex and cities are drab, uninspired, and sterile. There's way too much action going on in boring hallways and rooms. To the game's credit, there are some nice levels on catwalks that are suspended over a chasm underneath the city. I did like those.

The sound in this game is a mixed bag. Gunshots, animal chirps and growls, the various panicked outcries of those crazy lizard men when they die.. all great. You can hear a guy's footsteps when he's walking or running around nearby (a nice touch). There's not a whole lot of ambient noise, though. You can walk under a waterfall, and there's absolutely no noise as the water pours into a pond right in front of you. Very strange. The music has a nice adventure feel to it and does a great job of setting the mood for each level.

The flight sim levels have you riding the back of a pterosaur that is armed with machine guns and rockets (I kid you not). Don't ask me WHY this Indian guy is riding a pterosaur that has automatic weapons strapped to its wings. I stopped asking questions when I got killed by an angry mob of baboons. I have no idea what I did to annoy them, but those were some irate baboons.

Regardless of whether you're running 'n' gunning or riding a gun-toting pterosaur, this game is hard. It's pretty easy to get killed while running 'n' gunning, and the pterosaur goes SPLAT! like a bug on a windshield if he hits a cliffside or any peice of terrain.

It's difficult to rate this game because the first four chapters are so good. They're worth playing and replaying. The rest of the game is very dull by comparison. My verdict: one thumb up, one thumb down.

Turok Evolution ROCKS!! WORTH ALL 5 STARS!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 10
Date: October 09, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I just don't get the negative reviews of this game? Complaints about the graphics and control features, and a game that doesn't present challanges? HUH!

First off the graphics in this game are one of the main reasons that compelled me to keep playing this game. The graphics were like a breathe of fresh air in a FPS.

And how about the comments on the control features. BULL! If you can control games like HOH and Max Paine, you will have NO problem with controlling Turok E. I rented this game for starters. Within the rental period I got the control settings where I was comfortable with the game. Full vertical and horizontal speed controls. And the invert look, which I feel is the most important adjustment in any FPS.

The rental period of this game was a fantastic gaming experience. I found it hard to even put the game down. Being a fan of MOH and Max Paine. Turok Evolution is a better challenge than either of them. And by-the-way, two days after I returned the rental. I purchased Turok Evolution. And it was worth EVERY DOLLAR SPENT!

Give yourself time to master the controls in chapters 1 through 3. Because the AI really starts to kick in on the progressing levels. I'm at the end of chapter 5 right now and you WILL see a BIG difference in the AI from earlier levels. The flying levels are also very COOL! And the controls in the flying level were relatively easy to pick up.

As far as a fun factor, the feeling of adventure, and the sheer challenge of the game. It's been an AWESOME experience thus far. I'm trying to beat this game without using any cheats. As far as I'm concerned, MOH, Max P., and 007 don't even compare to the challenge that awaits you in Turok.

Maybe some don't like the game because it presents too much of a challenge? I can't comment about the multiplayer mode because I have'nt even tried it yet. I'm having to much FUN with the FPS part right now. I don't see me beating this game for awhile yet. Which already makes it worth it's price. Because as an average gamer, I like getting my money's worth out of a game.

I rate Turok as a better buy than any of the previously mentioned games. I own all of them and I have beaten them all. Turok is the BIGGEST BANG for the BUCK! So far.

And I also don't see a problem with save points on this game? It saves at the end of every sub-level. Giving me time to re-think strategy for blowing the brains out of the SLEGS! Gotta LOVE sniping in this game!

Massive violence has never looked so good!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: September 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I, like every other gamer in the world, love M-rated games. The blood splater on the wall, the bits of gore on the ground, it doesn't get much better. So when I heard that the new Turok, a Nintendo title, was 'multi-platform', I hurried on over to Blockbuster.

When I first turned on the game, and saw a reptile soldier get his head split in half with an axe, I new that this was greatness. You start the game with an axe/club and a bow-and-arrow. On the first level, I looked over the hill ahead of me, and saw bushes swaying to the side. I moved closer to them, and out jumped a small raptor. Immediately, I drew my bow and sent my arrow directly into the raptor's skull. The blood effect was astounding (a giant burst of thick mist in the air above me).

Now, I've never seen a Velociraptor get torn to shreds by a mini-gun, a.k.a. meatgrinder (meatgrinder refers to the graphically violent image portrayed when the mini-gun is used on enemies), but I'm pretty sure that the blood effect was exaggerated. Nevertheless, FPS's are supposed to be violent.

If you take away the 'M' rating, you've actually got yourself a good story, and some gameplay that can easily be compared to Red Faction. If you want to be amazed by a video game, then I recommend that you play an amazing game. Turok:Evolution is a game that will leave you satisfied and grinning (if you have a sick sense of humor like me).

Best Since First

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 8 / 10
Date: September 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The original will probably forever be THE best Turok of them all, but to me this one is second. Many will argue that part 2 is better, but I disagree. Part two lacked one major component that added true wonder to the original Turok game... Dinosaurs. There were only the occasional and generic raptors in Turok 2. Evolution is flooded with dinosaurs. The first time I played the game I was awe struck when I saw the towering head of a brachiosaurus sticking out over the tree tops and eating from the highest branch. It's these moments that make the game special. The weapons are awesome and the control is perfect, much better and sharper than the last great PS2 shooter, Medal of Honor: Frontline. The game does not get a perfect score however. Though the graphics are great, they lack something that the N64 version had. Though the fog in the 64-bit original was slammed by most, I felt it added a true feeling of being in the jungle and mystery. The fog is completely absent, and should've been kept in. The framerate in the game is almost always quick, much faster than the N64 version, but that's probably due to the lack of those details I spoke of. No lens flares from the sun, no clouds rolling overhead, no fish in the creeks, and the water isn't nearly a real as the original. But the game itself excels and I recommend it.

Roll Over, Fetch, Die: Things to Teach Your Pet Dinosaurs!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: January 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I personally like hunting dinosaurs. There's something about running around with a quad-barreled shotgun and tearing into raptors that makes me feel giddy, and there's something even more fun about taking a compound bow, zooming in, and taking something's head off. Seeing little monkeys sitting in trees or prehistoric crocs swimming around and thinking, "I should kill that" just makes the day pass so much better. Perhaps its that "melon hitting the sidewalk" sound that makes it enjoyable when I fire, or perhaps it's the fact that the limbs coming off and oceans of blood flowing at a distance just look interesting.
Yeah, I like the fact that the game is interactive and that I can want up to a brontosaurus sitting in as background, it looming like a titan above the terrain, and I can introduce it to missiles that bore into its skin simply because I can. I like that grinding sound that says, "that's gotta hurt" to me, and it doesn't get old no matter how many of them I kill. Its so - exhilarating.

Added to that is the fact that these dinosaurs running amok aren't all beasts you've seen on the Discovery channel. Somewhere along the evolutionary pathway, some dinosaurs became bipedal, started practicing the fine art of carrying weapons and enslaving humans, and they're truly what make hunters happy. While its true that running into a stegosaurus with missiles flashing off its back is interesting (and a shock, depending on the situation), the people hiding and taking shots at you are what make it interesting. I personally like finding them, taking a weapon that lets me pick them off from afar, and watching them spout blood over the side of a cliff as they cry to their mommy gods for a better form of band-aid. And, since I'm doing it to save the human race, it alright and makes me a hero to boot.

Turok does have a few graphic problems, mind you, and it isn't a game that everyone would enjoy. Sometimes the things you have to do are a little tedious, and there are some stages I didn't like. I personally thought having to fly around on something and pick enemies off was a waste, and I could have done without some of the stealth mode boards. Still, the range of what you can accomplish, the amount of weapons and the way some things sneak up on you, makes up for that. Once you grow accustomed to having to jump in first-person (not always easy when judging distance) and control with one analog while aiming with the other, it actually improves your skills. You become a dinosaur death machine, leaving corpses with missing appendages temporarily (yes, they don't stay around too long) in your wake. And that, most of all, is what I enjoy.

I wouldn't go as far as to call this a hard concept to get, either, no would I call the missions all that difficult. I breezed through the boards pretty steadily, sometimes killing myself with weapons that didn't work the way I thought they would and sometimes setting myself on fire when I got crazy with the napalm attachment to my flame-thrower, but that was just me and not something the game did. Most of the time you simply have to get from point "A" to point "B" without getting torn up too badly by snipers, bigger guys with bigger guns, and the ever-roaming dinosaurs. And that's not that hard. In fact, you can make a game out of it now and again, baiting one on the other and introducing a gun shooter to the teeth of a beast chasing you as you mad dash to get away from it. That was a fun feat for me because I liked moving through the terrain and killing, and I like killing with style. The only thing missing was a wall to hang the heads of things I killed on.

Added to that are the interesting little games you can play on two-player mode, making it something you can break out and humiliate your friends with. Some weapons only work in two-player settings, giving you new objectives to tack on to competition, and there are a few setting that let you exclusively do certain things when wanting to burn a little time. You can fight with only clubs and bows, for instance, opt to have all the weapons, get stronger every time you pick off a player, and a multitude of other things. And everyone knows that the ultimate humiliation is getting a chance to hold down a friend on a game, beat on them, and then laugh a lot at them in front of a host of their peers.

I personally feel that anyone that likes hunting games, enjoying tracking their enemies down or tearing into wildlife that sometimes reacts to it, might want to give it a try. I like games that let me simulate hunting bear and mountain lions, but what's a bear when compared to the chance to plug an armed Thunder Lizard with my compound bow? You simply have to overlook a few of the graphic problems, understand that the enemies' sounds are redundant and that they aren't that smart, that it is a quick play, and you'll be fine. So, happy hunting, and please, for the sake of the dino children, quit trying to eat those lizards you kill! Their families would like to have an open casket funeral at least one out of three times (the odds of them getting out of a good headshot), you know!

Surprised by some of the reviews here

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 10
Date: October 22, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I'm not too big of an FPS fan I admit it. I bought Kingdom Hearts and sold it back within a weeks time to trade for this game because the guys said it was great.

Wow, were they totally correct. This game is amazing. The lush jungle is amazing. I have not finished the game, but am on Chapter 5. The first few levels start out easy and the AI is pretty forgiving. However, I am now at a point where the enemies are definitely tougher and UNFORGIVING. Yet, I am an UNFORGIVING as the Slegg troops are. That's right. The game stocks you with weapons in the beginning of each chapter, but in subtle ways. It is so unbelievably enjoyable for some reason to find mini-gun rounds. It's like, hey these guys really beat me down,somehow I survived within an inch of my life, but I just found some health and mini-gun rounds so who is the bad-[toosh] now? I LOVE THIS GAME and I am not an FPS fan, but the weapons and environments in this game just make me want to keep on playing forward. And it is not that tough but pretty challenging.

Here is another example of the fun. Yesterday, I played a board where you enter the base and the troops start coming at you heavily. I noticed many shotgun rounds in the room, so I thought naturally that the shotgun should be the weapon of choice there. So I tried again and noticed that the game also gave me my flamethrower back for this level, so that was my weapon of choice. It gave me so much pleasure scorching all those that came charging into the room. So much fun. :)

Worth a Rental

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: June 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Turok Evolution is the perfect game for a five-night rental. While it is far from the best the first-person shooter genre has to offer, it kept me coming back for more over the course of the five days I had it.
The control is much improved over the old Nintendo 64 versions. The setup makes sense, and the aiming is no longer overly responsive, and is far less frustrating. The graphics, while not jaw-dropping, are still very impressive nonetheless, and the annoying fog from the Nintendo 64 days is virtually non-existent. Levels now incorporate stealth, and flying, as well as a number of new and impressive weapons.
Overall, it is worth a rental, especially for fans of the series, because this is probably the best installment thus far. At a reasonable price it would probably be worth a purchase.

The best video game ive ever played and ive played alot.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 9
Date: March 24, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Dont let the price fool you this game is the best game ever i finished it and im still playing it the multiplayer is awsome the cheats make it really fun i couldn't believe it when i saw it was only $5 the first level wasnt that fun but from then on it was great i think they just used that to get you used to the controls but anyway buy this game its the best!!!

Turok- fun for the whole family ; )

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: December 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game for my kids( Game Cube)- and it's great! Four players can hunt each other down using cool weapons, learning strategies & quick thinking. Nothing better than an evening spent w/ the kids(blowing each other apart-Lol), sneaking thru different landscapes, grabbing power-ups, gaining the best sniper postion, and you can even be a spider mine(it is controlled remotely & you can see everything w/ the attached camera) trailing poisonis gas or detonating the embedded charge. You can also loft anti-matter cubes from a safe distance or get right-in-their-face w/ a tomahwak/war club. If anyone knows of a "Part Two" to this game for GameCube- would love to hear about it!

Turok is better than Halo

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: August 31, 2002
Author: Amazon User

And I love Halo! I've been playing Turok for 2 days straight and it really rocks my Xbox. I'm glad I decided to buy and not rent this one. Extremely impressive graphics. Great AI. Super weapons. Turok has it all.

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