Chris Buffa of Gamedaily writes: After plowing through the Middle East in Call of Duty 4 and exploring an underwater city in Bioshock, Turok's prehistoric wonderland is a refreshing change of place, thanks to lush jungles and underground caves teeming with a host of imaginative critters. You'll battle a t-rex one-on-one, fry a bunch of scorpions with a flame thrower and bury razor sharp arrows into raptors' heads, in addition to battling an army of Killzone inspired super soldiers. However, despite its attractive graphics and homage to one of gaming's most legendary characters, Turok is a forgettable and sloppy first person shooter that fails to capture the excitement of the popular Nintendo 64 franchise.
Turok is decent for the most part. During the course of the seven hour journey, you'll battle a plethora of critters, from fast moving raptors to acid spewing bugs. And since the dinosaurs aren't picky eaters, it's possible to divert their attention to the opposition, which gives you much-needed breathing room, and believe us, you'll need it. While not impossible, Turok spikes in difficulty at random moments, thanks to poor design decisions that start with getting knocked dow
While not a bad game, Turok isn't a memorable one, either. Wandering through this ancient world and slaughtering hundreds of dinosaurs is cool, but not worth $59.99. Considering the missed potential and franchise legacy, it's 2008's first disappointment.
After releasing remasters of all three original Turok games, starting with the first two games in 2021 and then Turok 3 in 2023, Nightdive Studios has quietly updated the first Turok game with a native PS5 update.
Beyond the bug fixes and general cleaning-up that comes with most patches these days, the big thing about the PS5 version for the original Turok is that if you have a TV that can support it, you’ll be able to play Turok at 120FPS now.
Nightdive Studios hosting big Nintendo Switch eShop sale with lowest prices ever for Star Wars: Dark Forces Remaster, Turok, and more.
The Turok series has been languishing without a new title for more than a decade. It's about time we got a reboot.
I'm all for it, I loved the originals... I just don't think, just like w the original Prey, that the main character can survive in this current political climate. Native characters seem untouchable at the moment. I think it can be shown the right respect, but there's always someone getting upset about something these days, they would find a way to cancel it.
I can't think of a game that's been cancelled because of the race of the main character.
Honestly, I would prefer if they just ported/remastered Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion to modern platforms. So we could have access to the "original 3 games". Because I don't see how to really reboot Turok. It's a product of its time being a mixture of platforming/fps and puzzle.
And I really don't see all those elements being preserved on a Reboot.
I would prefer Dino Crisis remake from Capcom. Still, a remade Turok would get my attention.
Forgets about the 2008 reboot*
I'd rather have a sequel to Turok 3, tbh.
We unfortunately do not have enough quality dino games. Theres Horizon but they're robots, and Monster Hunter that I can only think of. I'd like to see Turok make a comeback some day.
OK first of all propaganda should have made their own engine for this game, just like COD4 did. A Darker grittier engine that defines detail, but also gives it the feel of the original TUROK. Unreal engine 3 has been whored out sooo many times that it makes me sick every game that comes out has it in it. Gears of War is the only great game that fully utilizes and perfects the engine, with the exception of Bioshock. UEIII should just be for irrational and epic sisnce they are the only two who know how to make a game look great with it.