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Dinozoids Beware

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is probably one of the best games for the 64--if you own a 64 and you like fps then you really should get this game.

I remember all the hype for this game when it came out, and when I finally picked up my own copy I was not disappointed.

The graphics are stunning (for the 64). Everything in this game looks great. One things that really stands out in this game are the death animations--no other 64 game can match this. Children probably shouldn't play this game because it is quite violent and gory. You can blow off heads, arms, legs, holes in chests etc. while blood spurts out all over the place.

The AI is pretty good and makes the game challenging.

The levels are long, which is both a plus and minus. Some of the levels were just a bit too long. At least there is a lot of variety though. The levels all look different and there are different enemies in them. One great part of the game was when you could ride this huge dinosaur around blowing your enemies away with these huge guns, or just running them over.

One level I hated was the "lair of the blind ones." That level was just too long (probably because it was just so annoying).

There are a lot of good weapons in this game, my favorite is the shotgun--using explosive shells. That was one thing I liked about this game--there were different ways to shoot some of the weapons because you had different rounds you could use with some of the weapons. Good stuff.

The multiplayer was incredibly fun for the time with lots of different weapons and levels to play with. However, when I went back to play multiplayer recently I noticed that it was incredibly slow... I guess this multiplayer can't stand up with Call of Duty 2 etc. : ) Every once in a while I will go back and play my favorite levels again (just like I do with Goldeneye 64).

Still a Good Game for Multiplayer

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: November 16, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Turok 2 does lack something in single player. It by no means is due to the lack of thought put into the game at all. It is very challenging yet has very little strategy to it. Also, there probably is little desire to kill dinosaurs for the viewer. Here is where other games like Goldeneye 007 (for N) shine. A real highlight of the game is multiplayer. It has great multiplayer action. It is hilarious to shoot someone in the butt with an arrow....and watch him run around all day long with an arrow still stuck in him. This game isn't the best you can buy, and it is by no means anywhere near the worst. The graphics are excellent in the game, especially with the assortment of weapons and explosions which do surpass Goldeneye 007. It is well worth it...

This game is all about graphics

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: November 24, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This game is all about graphics sadly. The weapons are awesome too and multiplayer is fun, but single player is bad. I got lost on the first level, and every level after that. The multiplayer characters are really cool though, and it can be fun. I would rent it first.

Turok 2

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: May 24, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Awesome game, (I like to cheat, i find games much funner that way).

An Ambitious Failure

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: August 13, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The title is a pretty good description of what this game is. But in order to properly understand what I mean, I will have to explain the different aspects of this game.

Graphics: The graphics were beautiful. You can actually see liquid movement, such as a creature's girth giggling as it sways back and forth! The level design itself is fascinating and fun to explore. In the first level for instance, you come upon a large apartment complex in the middle of a city, and can enter to explore all the rooms inside. There are a lot of different places to go and things to see, all in six HUGE levels.

Controls: You can change these to fit your preference, so this is not much of a problem.

Sound: No soundtrack, just sound effects; a really bizarre omission that detracts from the game.

Game play: This is where Turok 2 fails. One thing a first person shooter needs to be good is enemies, and lots of them. Other novel games like doom, quake, descent, and the first turok all lived up to this crucial aspect of a good FPS. The enemies in T2 are few and far between. Most of your time spent is locating necessary items and places for your mission objectives. Now this is where Iguana gets some credit, actually, because the mission objectives are a step up from turok #1. Rather then the proverbial FPS tasks of locating key cards or other such rights of passage paraphernalia for the mere purpose of opening a door or progressing to the next level, Iguana was more creative than that with T2. Blowing up ammunition supply bunkers, releasing prisoners, destroying targets of interest, are all more satisfying things to do in a game than just doing what it takes to get to the next level. However, creative mission objectives are only worthwhile if individual levels do not take FOREVER to beat. Sometimes the intervals between fighting enemies and just wandering around trying to find your mission objectives are so long you do not even feel like you are playing a FPS anymore. The enemies you do encounter can be amusing though, made all the more so by the sweet gore animation. But good gore can only hold a game up for so long with scant fighting and unimaginative characters and creatures. Raptors are the only genuine DINOSAURS you encounter in a game entitled DINOSAUR HUNTER. You encounter a lot of giant biped lizards that shoot purple crap from their arms, lame. Worse still, in each level there are only between 1 and 3 different kinds of enemies. A level will feature its own unique type of enemy, along with a couple others repeated from past levels. The weapons are decent, but manage to screw up the game even more. You get a weapon that shoots "charged darts" that paralyze enemies. Doesn't sound like a big deal right? It should not be, but your enemies remain paralyzed for about a minute with each shot. So in the later levels, my occasional encounters went like this: I find a dinoid, paralyze him with my charged dart rifle, take my time selecting a lethal weapon, hit him with the minimum number of shots required to kill him, and watch him drop dead. With 30 darts as the allowed carrying capacity, this method could be used throughout an entire level.

Overall, a failure that did not live up to the first Turok. Long and boring with almost no fighting, this is one watered down form of FPS. If I said that the first doom game was better than this, I would be lying through my teeth. It can be fun for a while actually, as the maps provide some amusing locations to explore and eye-catching things to see. Some of the gore is even worth checking out, it's so well done. But if you actually stick it out to the end level (I did not) you may end up really hating yourself for wasting so much of your God-given time.

How did they do it?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: June 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is fun. The visuals are impressive and the guns are frickin' cool and some fun multi-player. Play this game because you deserve something special. Unless youre a Dragon Ball Z fan.

The game doesn't compare to rare's goldeneye

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: August 05, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Turok 2 by acclaim has one of the worst most boring one player games in the universe! The game although doesn't have such bad multiplayer mode. Although I feel goldeneye's is so much better... The only goose thing about the game is the frag tag mode where every body tries to get the monkey.

YEAH!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 23, 1999
Author: Amazon User

To say this game is good is a major understatement.This game is GREAT.first off,lets start with the most obvious thing.the graphics.they are aboslutely gorgreous,even without the ram card(although a tad blurry,but its not noticeable unless compared with the card)This games graphics are comparable to a high end Computer with a Voodoo2 board.the next noticeable element is the music and sound,which are dead on.i must say this has THE BEST music on the n64 to date in my opinion.i even found some and downloaded it cause it was so catchy.next is the enemy AI.while there's still room for improvement(isnt there always?)it really does stand out from the traditional "run straight into walls" type of AI.hm,well i dont know exactly where the level design would come in,but the developers obviously took their time with it.huge,extremely detailed levels.and when i say huge i mean VERY VERY BIG.if you suck at games and dont like long levels(like mr 2 star)then this game isnt for you..its challenging,especially the bosses,but if you dont mind dying then by all means play it.before i go let me add that this game contains gore,yes.blood.heads popping off,limbs being blow away etc.its great,and if youre an over protective parent dont buy the game.if youre cool though and dont mind your kid seeing how the world really is then go for it!

The Wandering Gambler™

Average...only really good if you use cheats

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: June 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game's graphics and animations are very well done, and the story line is above average. The thing that in my opinion makes it average is how long the levels are (coupled with the ridiculous Death Throes, more on the later). It reminds me of the days of Jaws and Friday The 13th games for the NES where the levels dragged on and on and on....each level in this game will take you at LEAST three hours to get thru and not only that but youll have to back track thru old levels to get new keys and items etc. After a while it gets to the point where you get tired of it and quit. And one more thing this game seems to have been made for a bored teenage kid or adolescent, there are no puzzles or challenges to keep you intrigued, except for the occasional switch to find and that gets boring. The game is basically just kill this dinosaur and watch the blood spew forth, while it goes thru a ridiculous Death Throe.
Considering how long the levels are use the cheats some have mentioned and you should get a lot more enjoyment out of it (at least that way you wont have to be backtracking all the time). Buy this game used.

Good in its time, but the game did have its drawbacks

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: September 21, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Back in the day, Turok 2 would've stunned any player with its eye-popping graphics and huge levels. One of the coolest aspects of the game is its wide arrange of really cool weapons. Multi-player is fun. Though, I wouldn't recommend this game to any of my friends in present times.

While playing Turok 2, you will spend a lot of your time back-tracking areas, which doesn't lead to any action. When you kill one of the enemy's, it will vanish providing you with no way to find your way back. If you play enough through these annoyances then you can become a expert enough to move through the game with ease. Being a action-shooter type, back-tracking areas can become a major bore for this genre. Don't expect steady feet gameplay like Goldeneye or Perfect Dark.

The graphics are great for 64, the story is okay, the characters are awesome, the weapons are extremely awesome, but the overall beat of the game lacks, which sucks away a lot of "what it could of been" gameplay.
Turok 2 isn't a bad game, but isn't one you pull out of your closet a year or two down the road, to play either.

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