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Can somebody say "Game of the Year"?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I cant begin to tell u how much this game rules. This game could easily beats in my opinion beats out halo. Halo has about 10 levels and this game which goes my chapters and has about 5 levels per chapter has triple as many levels halo. Also, the multiplayer action is awesome!!! This is a muct buy for any fps fan or anyone with a xbox

great even thou ppl say its bad

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 11, 2004
Author: Amazon User

this is a great game, so it sucks that u cant save during a level. but this game kicks ass. you shoot an enemy with a poison arrow and they start puking, u get to slice off limbs and heads (like the other turok games), the graphics are amasing, the story line is great,but they should have the mutiplayer like rage wars is. overall its a good game to get if you like to kill things.

Not What I Excpected But Still Cool!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I was looking at the X Box games to see if their were any I wanted.I put my eyes on Turok:EVOLUTION and I remember playing a short multiplayer round with my friend once.I ovcourse bought it and it wasn't what I excpected,but I was not desappointed either.The game has good graphics,details,overwelming weapons,interesting enviroments,cool enemys.Greate multiplayer gaming as well.This game is deffinetly a keeper.
GOOD FOR EVERY TUROK FAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Waste of Money

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 15, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game was an absolute waste of money. The controls are terrible, aiming is a joke. Sometimes you move to fast, sometimes you move too slow. The worst thing about the game is the lack of checkpoints, you have to finish the entire level before proceeding...if you die (even when you are close to finishing the level) you have to restart the whole level. The graphics are good, but other than that, this game is worthless.

Could of been a great game.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I thought this game was going to be amazing like the first 2 Turoks. I was wrong. The game just doesn't feel like a turok game. It seems totally different to me. It is a good game but not what I was expecting. The graphics are good but nothing amazing like other Xbox games. I don't know about other copies but my game seems defective. On Chapter 4 at the end everybody seems to turn invincible and I cant kill them but they can kill me. On another level I will be running through the midle of the level and suddenly blow up. This game is good for someone who likes shooting games but it's a dissapointment for the Turok Fans.

"Evolution" could have used more evolving

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

"Turok: Evolution" is supposed to be a prequel to the earlier Turok games, and the term 'prequel' seems to imply that there is actually some plot going on behind all that first-person action. However, if that is true, I am hard-pressed to detect much of a story at all. I consistently felt as if I was just being dumped into missions that were little mini-games all by themselves. One chapter of the game hardly segues well with the next, and the narrative is almost completely incoherent. Still, it's hard to bash a first-person shooter for a bad storyline since the genre began by completely forsaking this ingredient (see "Doom" and "Quake" for example), but "Evolution" doesn't deliver the best of the best in gameplay terms either.

You will encounter all kinds of dinosaurs and prehistoric critters in "Evolution," but your primary foe will be the reptillian armies of the Sleg. These guys behave very strangely. Sometimes they take cover and shoot at you from around a corner, and other times they stand in place and hope for the best even as you fire away at them with your weapon of choice. Sometimes they duck and roll out of range and proceed to attack from a different position, and sometimes they walk right over a cliff edge and fall to their deaths. The point here is that sometimes they behave impressively, but generally they just serve to remind you that you're playing a video game because, after all, nobody would be THAT stupid. To make matters worse, these half-dinosaur troops all resemble one another to a fault, and vary only in size. I suppose the texture artists just got lazy and said, "Well, we'll take this enemy model and make it bigger, and the programmers will make him tougher, and then we have a new enemy." So, aside from the occasional dinosaur attack, you will square off against the same guys over and over and over again.

The levels fair somewhat better, but even they are inconsistent in their design. It's as if two completely different developers worked on this game. For instance, one very memorable level puts you in the so-called Halls of Battle, where humanity is making a stand against the bestial armies of the Sleg. The good guys are entrenched behind rubble as the bad guys fire away at them. Then you come in and, well, save the day. It isn't quite as cool as those scripted moments in "Halo," but it's similar in its flavor. However, the majority of levels in the game are completely forgettable and uninspiring.

To top it off, aiming isn't nearly as efficient as it should be in "Evolution." Even with the autoaim turned on, you will often miss your target in the heat of battle, and, needless to say, that's not a good thing. To make matters worse, you will sometimes encounter packs of small dinosaurs or other animals that are just too tiny and agile to get the drop on. If they kill you, you have the added pleasure of starting the entire level from scratch, as "Evolution" makes the often-lamented mistake of preventing you from saving in the middle of a mission. Checkpoints would have helped, but these remain absent as well. Oops.

Worst of all, though, is the game's misguided flight mode. Sometimes you will be called upon to take flight astride a winged, gun-toting dino that can pretty much only go in one direction most of the time. I appreciate the idea - it should add some texture to the game and break the monotony of constantly running and gunning, but, in the end, it's far more frustrating than it is fun. You only have a limited amount of control in these instances, and too much trial and error is involved. Worse, if you fly too high or try to throw aside your chains by heading in an unauthorized direction, you will be forced to swing VIOLENTLY back into place, which will often send you whipping into a wall - which INSTANTLY kills you. This flight mode is the single worst part about "Evolution."

The game isn't a bust, though - particularly if you're a rabid fan of shooters. Every game in this series has offered a fine array of original and compelling weapons, and "Evolution" is no exception. Putting these weapons to work is bloody indeed. The damage modeling is pretty good, and enemies will react to the impact of projectiles depending upon the direction from which they were launched. Unfortunately, all that work seems in vain since dead opponents and all lingering gore fade from sight in a matter of seconds. It's a pity.

Despite a somewhat rickety engine, the designers also went to quite some trouble to bring the outdoor environments to life. Plants sway as you pass through them. Birds fly through the air and nest in the trees. Vicious crocs swim just beneath the surface of the water. The list goes on. It's very immersive stuff. The larger dinosaurs of the game are a treat as well, since they are so well-animated and believable.

Multiplayer "Evolution" is quite fun, though it still suffers from some of the single-player campaign's faults. The list of gameplay options, character models, and multiplayer levels is long indeed, and should provide a healthy dose of replay value. In fact, you could get your money's worth by having at the multiplayer stuff all by itself. It's arguable that it's better than the single-player game.

In the end, "Turok" is a pretty decent fps, but its flaws are glaring, especially on the Xbox console since it has to compete with "Halo." Everything "Evolution" does, "Halo" does better. It's that simple, really. If you love shooters and are all finished with "Halo," then give "Evolution" a chance. But don't let your expectations get too high.

Final Score: C (Or 3 stars)

A very average game...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game a few weeks after it was released. I thought it had the potential to be a great game. Boy, was I wrong! The flying levels are God-awful, the A.I. of the enemies is laughable, and the story is just silly.

I did like the way enemies would puke if you shot 'em with poison arrows. I also liked a lot of the unique weapons.

Overall, however, the game was more "miss" than "hit". ...

Evolution?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 07, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I had hoped that Turok: Evolution on Xbox would have evolved more since Seeds of Evil on N64. Graphics are improved in certain cases but the square trees and flat plants should have been rounded out. You are blocked from going back to a previous level in the game to get health and or ammo as in previous games. At the begining of a new level there is a screen where the goals are presented, this screen looks like something out of a 16 bit system.

There is no map this time around which I used to use for jumping.

Weapons have taken a step back. You do not have access to all the weapons even if you already picked them up. Weapons selection is slow because you must cycle through the weapons one by one.

Overall it is still a good game but not as good as Halo and in certain cases not as good as Seed of Evil.

Maybe its Nostalgia, but I liked it

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 13, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I admit TUROK(2008) is graphically superior to Turok: Evolution, but this game is still bigger in scope an depth than TUROK(2008).

Sure, this game suffers from the same bad formulas an filler content that almost ever FPS game has; Bad intro, cheesy plot an villains. But the sheer scope of level design and variety of crazy weapons, I have yet to see in many next-gen games.

One of the most profound events was at the end when Turok didn't kill Bruckner. I like that.

Its hard for this game to not look dated in relation to the new game...but it still has cool features that should be persevered.
To bad video games don't often ever get remade. I still like havening this in my collection.

big letdown

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 03, 2008
Author: Amazon User

i think that turok could have been much better if they put more time into the gameplay. I loved the multiplayer that was the best part of the game. so i guess ill give it a 2 only for the multiplayer if the multiplayer was bad i would've liked to give it less than a 1.

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