Turok
by Disney Interactive Studios
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Product Summary
Brand: Disney Interactive StudiosPrimary Contributor: Windows XP
Format: CD
Release Date: 2008-04-29
Platform: Windows Vista, Windows XP
Model: 7000301
Publisher: Disney Interactive Studios
Product features:
- Strategic Combat ? Choose to take out your enemies with quiet kills or massive firepower.
- Intense Dino Combat ? Battle vicious dinosaurs or lure them to attack your enemies
- Explosive Weapons ? Choose from 13 deadly weapons with most featuring a secondary function
- Intelligent A.I. ? Enemy soldiers advance to flank and dinosaurs reacts in unpredictable predatory and defensive behavior
- Frenetic Multiplayer Action - Take the fight on-line with intense action for up to 16 players on dinosaur-infested maps
Video Game Reviews of Turok
Customer Review: Critisized to hard
Summary: 4 Stars
Ok first of ifind many reviews of this game overly critical< i found teh game quite enjoyable though not all together entirely imerseing, That's not a bad thing , as sometimes it is great to have a game you can just play and stop (i do have to tend to my game art design homework for school)
first lets look at this games good points
1. Kick A-- graphics Via Unreal 3 engine
2. solid Level Design that is never confusing not frustrating
3. nice story
4. fun game play particularly the dino spots
5. KICK A-- knife scenes when you do a special knife kill
Now the bad
1. not optimised properly for the PC and couldn't find a patch (in a very very few spots i ahd to turn my resolution down run at deccent frames , I have a very nice comp adn it runs UT3 flawlessly so this tells me they didnt really work on optimization for the pc version)
2. the drop/pick weapon system was a tad confusing but not to distracting
3. the knife cut scenes mention on the good list, ogt old after a while as tehy lacked variety
Now For stuff i think peple were overly critical of
1. copying other FPSers , ok lets fact the facts here , today there really isnt much new you can do with shooters that hasnt already been done, while this game didn't bring any thing new to the table i can say waht it did do , it did well, it didnt break any thign about the engine it was built on, in that respect I was a quite solid game and i really can't understad why peopel would critize it for doing something that COUNTLESS shooters do regardless of rather or not thy are on the top of the cream, EVERY Shooter in some part boorws ideas from a diferent shooter, this is how genres work, if they didnt then there woudlnt be a need for genres in teh first place.
2. Linear game, well of course , not every game can be an oblivion , or a GTA. sure this one didnt offer the sprawlign enviroments of stalker , or the little sand box feel of GTA and Far cry.I t did offer a good story and some tactical variety you can play throguh it and do thigns differnetly to a degree. and quite hoenstly i'm sick of this sand box game mentality, the way i figure , it a sandboxc doesnt suit the story , then why have it ? and on turok i don't a sand box would have fit this game and story , so i think people have been rather harsh in thier persepective on this issue in their reviews.
with all that said , i'd say the game is well worth at least 39 US dollars , i had the fortune of graping it at 8 bucks from here, if you can get it at a deal then do so it would be a steal.
now the run down of my general avargae frame rate while palying
in most spots my machine kept this game running at 40-60 fps at 1280x1024 witha f ew spots it dropped to 18-25 not bad but the game could have used some beter optimazations here.
now my machine specs :
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ Black edition (oc'ed to 3ghz)
2 gigs of Giel DDR2-800(pc6400) ram
Sound blaster X-fi xtreme music sound card
Nvidia Geforce 9600GT 512 mb vid ram (from Leadtek)
P.S. There is NO DRM on this game !!!!! :) so no hassles didnt even ahve a cd key , jsut a disk check to see if the g me is in the drive which shouldnt be an issues for any one two disck drives)
Description of Turok
What seemed at first to be a simple mission has turned into a deadly game of survival. You are Joseph Turok, an ex-member of Wolf Pack, the most savage, merciless black ops squad of its time. Now you have been given a special order from Whiskey Company, an elite commando team, to capture and detain Roland Kane from his fortress on a worthless, backwater planet. Kane is an escaped war criminal, the once-legendary leader of Wolf Pack...and your former mentor. But Kane is in command of a secret paramilitary force funded by the Mendel-Gruman (M-G) Corporation. When your ship approaches the planet, you are blasted out of the sky by Kane's troops. Now you are stranded in a dangerous world. Vicious prehistoric beasts of all shapes and sizes roam the terrain, attacking anything that moves. Your teammates are either killed or scattered. Ruthless M-G forces are hunting the ones who are not dead. You have no weapons. How will you survive?Action Games
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