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Deflating HYPE machine

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 16
Date: February 08, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Wow. I guess they figure the graphics are a bit updated so they can pass it off as a cutting edge PS3 issue for the New Year. Bzzt! This is a straight terrible game. All you have to do is play the demo, don't bother with the game if you are really that interested. Game itself is nearly worse. RFOM like controls, another game I thought was very dissapointing. Sound is like voice overs, doesn't match the action. I was bored killing dinosaurs after about 2 kills but I went on so I could give it a proper chance. Your partner in the game, your guide throughout the maps has archaic, unatural 2D movements. I've been dying to rent Uncharted what 1st or 2nd best game for the PS3 for ages yet it's never in, one copy everywhere, sometimes none, yet they have like 4 copies of Turok at every Blockbuster. Like sticking a knife in my side, this game is an embarrasment. They should pay us $60 to play the demo. Shame on you Turok developers!

Disappointed isn't even the word to use when describing this..

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: February 16, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Wow, I honestly don't think I could've found a better way to waste 50$ just short of tossing it down a toilet drain.

Horrible graphics, redundent gameplay over and over and over again, horrible weapon selection...

I could keep going and going, just do yourself a favor and don't waste your money on this despite how awesome you think it would be to get nostalgic and buy it because you owned it on N64.

Seriously.

Dont waste $$$ on This...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: February 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is not good at all. Good thing that i got it for free (as a present). I was hoping for something way better. The gameplay is dumb, you can keep on killing the dinosaurs with the special "knife move" over and over again (the move is ALWAYS the same, so it gets boring after about 3 kills lol). I havent finished the game, but i'm already bored as hell, i think im not even on the half way mark. The weapons suck too. I havent played the multiplayer, but i guess its gonna be bad as well. I wouldnt waste money on this game. If i dont like a game that much, at least i get some achievements. Well... not in this case, because i find it too boring to even get some achievement points out of it. Harsh review, but its true. I own COD 4, Rainbow, Gears, and they're sweet. Not TUROK though. Good luck if you buy this.

lots of hype . . . little bang

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: March 02, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I watched all the commercials, read all the reviews in magazines and was sold on all the hype for this game. Unfortunately after playing the game it seems I know what this team spent the majority of their money on. the knifing of enemies is not fluid at all you have to wait until the game tells you to swing the blade, unlike call of duty 4. the weapons are somewhat creative but there are too few to have fun with. gameplay is so redundant. online play is horrible, that is if you can connect and stay connected to a game. Don't buy all the hype.

Glad I rented this vs buying it...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 27, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Ever see a movie trailer and think to yourself "maybe I'll wait until it comes out on DVD and rent it rather than paying to see it in the theater"? Well, after playing this game, I feel safe in saying that this one is one that I wish I had missed.

First the good, the graphics are really nice and the characters seem pretty solid as well. The fact that you can kill a dinosaur easier with a knife than you can an automatic weapon, while strange, is kind of cool. OK, that's about it for the good...
I'll skip the minor bad and go straight for the really bad so save space.

The game starts off safe enough, new guy appears on a military spaceship bound for some planet, looking for a "rouge leader". Suddenly, missle attack and the ship is going down. After crashing landing on the planet, only Turok and one other soldier is alive, at least at this point. You are on a planet with dinos and bad guys running around. Everything seems to go down hill from here. Now I like a challenge in a game, I have been through GRAW2, Assassins's Creed, Devil May Cry 4, and all 3 Halos. I like figuring out how to clear an area or how to get the best tactical advantage to advance in the game. However, after playing this game I started to use it for a frisbee. The battles in some cases have no clear ending, you clear the area, start to advance and a whole new group of guys come storming in. After the 3rd or 4th wave and several hundred rounds, if you are lucky enough to be alive, you MIGHT be able to advance if some guy wasn't hiding the whole time and blows up a barrel near you and takes you out. The check points are spaced so far apart that if you are being careful and taking slow movements so as to stay in hiding, it possible to start at a point, play for nearly an hour, get popped by someone you never even saw coming and go right back to the same starting point. Frustration SHOULD be part of the experience in a shooter like this, I agree, but at some point the frustration should be accompanied with catching a break, like putting more check points in the environment. The aiming on this game is really terrible. You have to try to bump the stick back and forth to get dead on the target while he and three of his friends are all shooting you. You know you are getting in trouble when things start going fuzzy and you have a hard time seeing. This is your health guage. A bar, or dial, a beep or something would be better. When you are fighting off the 3rd or 4th wave of soldiers to come into an area and you have already picked up all the spare ammo and you are doing your best to finish the area, your vision blurring a bit isn't a real clear indication of how much more you can take before you die.

In a nutshell, if you are despirate for something to add to your gamerang or gamefly que, this one might be ok, but I wouldn't recommend spending the $60 they are asking for it. Give it a couple weeks, I am sure you'll find plenty of these in the used game stores... assuming that people don't toss the whole thing in the trash to prevent the embarrassment that they purchased it in the first place.

A Decent Game 6 Years Ago

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 11 / 14
Date: February 08, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I really wanted to like this game....

To me this game wasn't fun at all. The movements are slow and awkward; There are times when you are being attacked and you can't even tell where it's coming from, mostly due to clumsy, plodding controls that don't allow you to react as quickly as you would like. The graphics to me were far from 'next gen'; While very creative in theory, the graphics are often muddy and not very well defined(esp. when compared to a game like 'Drake's Fortune' or even 'Far Cry', which both had great jungle look to them...). The creatures are cool, but you are often outnumbered...and with the sub par controls, you're usually dead meat. I have been playing FPS's for a long time, and while I'm not the best, I'm def not a novice. I know when I died because of my idiocy and when I died because of a control issue. This doesn't even control as well as games from 4 or 5 years ago, like 'DOOM 3', 'Return to Castle Wolfenstein; Tides of War', and 'Killzone'. I guess I just found this really boring and not up to snuff. I didn't really care about the story, and the action was more annoying than fun. I don't understand why this game wasn't made into the game it could have been. Hard to believe no one spoke up and said 'Hey, this isn't good enough...'. Or maybe they did, and were promptly fired. Play at your own risk; A rental at best.

Always offer an embedded multi player!!! Unlike Turok.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 14
Date: February 08, 2008
Author: Amazon User

My young son couldn't wait to continue our tradition of Turok starting back with the great Nintendo 64 titles, so imagine my chagrin when I immediately found that the only multi-player choice for this game was xbox LIVE. Give us a break guys. Always offer a multi-player choice...always.

Sadly not the game I expected

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 9
Date: February 11, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I play Shooters religiously, Rainbow 6 Vegas, COD 4, Gears of War are arguably some of the best shooters around. And yes, Halo 3 was good as well. I remember seeing the Turok game for the first time many years ago and being captured by the overall gameplay and of course the weapons. But this time around it doesn't live up to the hype. The graphics are not what you would expect for a next generation game, no where near COD4. Also, any game that doesn't offer a full Co-op story mode gets a negative notch from me. If Halo is one of the biggest selling shooters of all time, everyone should use the features they offer as the blueprint to build on, like full co-op story mode. Sadly I'll be taking this game back and will buy Army of Two instead.

This game does not deliver.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: March 04, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Good concept, but terrible execution.
Unless you already have everything else this game isn't worth owning.
Reasonably good graphics, but terrible gameplay.

TRY THE DEMO BEFORE YOU BUY!!!

Nothing Special

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 10, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I like the weapons in this game and the cool enviroments and Dinosaurs. I dont like how theres no blood when you shoot at the soldier guys. It is an M rated game... but whatever. Also the controls are kindof goofy and its really annoying when you keep on getting bumped over.

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