Publisher: Disney Interactive Studios, Touchstone
Developer: Propaganda Games
Published: February 05, 2008
Category: Action, Shooter, First-Person
Players: 1-16
Touchstone,
a branch of Disney were ones who published the game.This new game is
the first in franchise in 6 years. Movies like Jurassic Park have
aspects of the time-traveling, but in its stead is a science-fiction
story that involves a distant ship that crashes into a world of aliens.
Game includes of interesting plot twists and nasty dialogues. Aside the
senseless action.
Presentation - 7.5/10
You play as Joseph Turok, an American solider who is trained to hunt a
rogue military company of which he once used to be a member of. Turok
freely imitates from many resources, the plot feels much like ones from
Jurassic Park. There's also not to the game in the storyline. Ship
crashes on a planet, Go find the mystery voice that's pretty
straightforward and out of fashion. Turok could have made an
interesting plot but failed to do so. The story line is of 10 full
hours of playtime more than any FPS.
Graphics - 8/10
The visual designs of character and vehicles feels to be taken from
Gears of War. The environment is confusing and camouflaged. The visuals
are powered by the Unreal engine, gives that they are not sharp or
crisp as in other Unreal-engine games. Granted, there are some great
animations, particularly when a dinosaur is dying on the ground
twitching in pain. The PS3 version looks nice in graphical lighting and
shading, though X360 game suffers. However, they both are quiet
identical.
Gameplay - 9/10
The only thing in the game is fighting dino's. You encounter many
varied species of dinosaurs such as quick raptors, docile and our
favorite T-rex. You have rare selection of your firearms in the game.
The game includes many cinematic action, move or thrust down buttons
continuously. It's so well done that it's a bit unsettling fighting
with your knifes.
The gets frustrating when fighting waves of dinosaurs. For example, you
are attacked by dinosaurs the first wave is going to be itself hard
and in no time minutes another wave attacks. This process of
frustrating fights goes on, and further the checkpoints for saving are
not much so, you would have to replay from the start. The human
hostiles is quiet easy in contrast to the dinosaurs.
Sound - 9/10
The sound is somewhat perfect with great voice acting and some nasty
dialogues make it a little cheesy. The sound effects are sure no trites
with excellent sound of footsteps and the cries of dinosaurs.
Replayability - 7/10 Depends on the gamers. But, I would prefer it.
Misc [for extra info.]
There's support for up to four players in co-op in multiplayer, and the
action is a lot more intense than in regular single-player because the
number of enemies and dinosaurs have been increased to extreme. The
downside is that it's difficult to find an available game at times
online, even in the evenings. The multiplayer very difficult to handle
in many occasions.
Overall Rating - 40.5/50
Full description
Turok
is an epic, story-driven FPS game set on a dark, mysterious planet in
the near future. Players take on the role of Joseph Turok, a former
Black Ops commando, now part of an elite Special Forces squad on a
mission to take down a war criminal on a genetically-altered planet.
After the ship is shot down while approaching the planet, Joseph Turok
must use his instincts and elite military training to elude an army of
well-trained soldiers, and the ravenous, unpredictable creatures that
populate the dangerous environment. Joseph Turok's mission? Survive at
all costs.
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