Turok Official Thread

[Chasym]

started playing turok today.
Its nothing spectacular or enticing to me, i can play it without much complaint but nothing really stands out to me.
The aim is very annoying, its too fast to really get a good lock on, and i have turned it all the way down. something to get used to im sure but its really annoying.
And the dinosaurs are so fast at running around you some times you just gotta spray and pray in circles.
The soldier enemy AI is kinda dumb, i can be right in front of someone and they dont see me half the time, reminds me of lolkillzone.
the weapons themselves are decent, nothing great. Best gun ive used so far is one that shoots a little orange ball out and can stick them to enemies so when you fire again it explodes.
the knife is overall the best weapon you can use in the game as long as your not being fired at as being shot at slows you down. a knife kill is a one shot kill every time if you hit the right trigger on time, i found it better to be surrounded by raptors and just go knife slashing than fire a gun which takes forever.
The graphics are great, nothing bar setting, and the voice acting is pretty good (hell boy as slade)
most of the achievements are all online based, and i cant see myself playing this online much so thats a bummer for me, the ones that are story mode are entirley too easy to obtain, stick someone to the wall with the bow, kill 50 dinos with a knife, kill 50 soldies in stealth with knife, 3 enemies with one grenade...lame.
all in all its an average game, your basic FPS with decent story and graphics, the game play has its hits and misses but i would reccomend this one a rental!

 

[Anglis]

Meh, one cool thing that made Turok awesome the first go round was the Over the Top weapons that I loved. This one is missing that.

All we get is the bow (which is pretty cool) and a way over overpowered Knife

 

[Makelith]

I love this game, but i can easily see why others wouldn't. Its a fairly difficult game in some places, even on the normal setting. I'm stuck in a place right now and I know how to get past it, its just more of a matter of doing it.

Co-op is even more of a beast. Its not co-op campaign, but it will probably take you as much time. Me and Jereme finally beat the second level, but Me, Jereme, and Osy still can't beat the first level.

Consistency is sometime an issue though (i.e. i can kill someone with one shot to the face of the weakest weapon, but his friend to the left will take a full clip of a much more powerful weapon).

My post from the other turok thread.

 

[Chasym]

i dont find it difficult at all and im playing on hard currently, i only had to restart from a death once and that was because i was too busy talking to a friend instead of paying attention to what i was doing lol.
The sniper rifle is kinda blah, too long of a pause in between shots and the AI is sooo fucking annoying when they are just standing completley still and you line up a headshot, and as soon as you line it up they detect the head shot and move. And no scoping is sadly way too easy, granted not as easy as blacksite area 51 since there is no cross hairs when no scoping, but its still damn easy to line that shot up quickly.
The shotgun is very inconsistent, like you said you drop one guy in one shot and turn to the next guy and cap him the exact same way and it takes 5 more shots than the previous guy.
the plasma rifle is just very annoying, overheats way too easy and the secondary explosions usually only stun the enemy and not kill them.
I also hate that after holding the bow for so long it forces you to fire after a set amount of time and theres no way to stop the shot and save your arrow if you decide not to take the shot.
and the secondary shotgun flare shot pisses me off sometimes, shoot a soldier dead on and half the time it goes right through their body instead of sticking to him.
Theres alot of flaws to the game yes, but i still dont completley hate it and wont call it complete trash, it has its good spots but its just not delievering on the the levels i like in my shooters, when i play on hard mode i want a challenge, i feel like im playing on normal still.
I mean its still harder than blacksite was on expert, but still not the challenge i personally as a gamer need.
At least i can be playing DMC4 or lost odyssey in the next day or so.

 

[Makelith]

i dont find it difficult at all and im playing on hard currently

Just wait.....

the plasma rifle is just very annoying, overheats way too easy and the secondary explosions usually only stun the enemy and not kill them.

I guess just get better with it then? Its easily the best gun in the entire game.

I also hate that after holding the bow for so long it forces you to fire after a set amount of time and theres no way to stop the shot and save your arrow if you decide not to take the shot.

You can choose to not take the shot. You just have to ease off the trigger lightly.

 

[Chasym]

ah nice to know, im just about near the ending and still only died once, almost died at that rocket launcher dude earlier but made it through.
ive been sticking with sniping and only sniping pretty much. my friends get a kick out of watching my just run through an area no scoping without a thought lol.

 

[Makelith]

Most crazy hard final boss fight i've had in a long time. This game has a very off difficulty curve, where some parts are crazy easy and i'll just walk though, but then other times its like running in to a brick wall. I finally beat it and can look forward to doing it on inhuman difficulty and the multiplayer.

Jereme and Osy!!!! To Co-op map 1!!!

 

[Sorrowfulturnip]

I played the demo of this game. Like chasym said it was decent. Wasn't over the top but wasn't bad either. I had some fun playing it. To me personally it doesn't live up to the orginial turok. The orginial turok is one of my favorite old school FPS. What takes away from this turok is it felt more like a modern day FPS and I didn't get that classic turok feel with it. It lacked the weapons as mentioned earlier and it didn't have any music like those cool jungle style beats that the orginial had but again I only played the demo so I really don't know what kind of music is in it. But overall its not a bad game.

 

[CmdrFly]

Bought it without playing the demo, and no regrets yet. Dino movement is very natural. The "oh shit" scenarios are a little sluggish; you get 2-3 seconds to realize there's a raptor on your face before it makes you start pressing buttons. I'm more used to Jericho where you have to start mashing before the tango's even touched you.

Still trapped in the jungle; it's a pretty environment but looking forward to some change.

 

[Makelith]

Are you on x3 or PS3 cmdr? Do you have live? I've been looking for people other than Me Jereme and Osy that play this game to hit up the multiplayer.

 

[CmdrFly]

360, Live gold, CmdrFly amazingly. I was shocked to see that available.

I don't do deathmatch at all (save for Supreme Commander) but there is 2-4 co-op for this game so I'd be down for some games of that. My account is on automatic sign-in and the woman plays Rock Band a shitload so if you get no reply it's probably not me at the controls.

 

[Euphacent]

Played the demo... really wasn't impressed.

 

[Olrox]

This is only opinion, but after renting it and playing it for 2 days, I can't stand it and already took it back to blockbuster early. I will list a few reasons why all copies of this game should be destroyed and wipe from the face of this earth.

- The storyline- Dinosaurs in space??? the reasoning they got there.. was because they're "terraforming the planet".. um... what? terraforming means creating an ENVIROMENT for life to be possible. Dinosaurs don't magically evolve from that. Nor to mention that this is the most generic plot, a 4 year old could think this up.. probably did.

-The Bow- ITS A COMPOUND BOW. WHY CAN'T HE HOLD IT BACK FOREVER!!?!?? I would only accept this lousy feature if it was a recurve.. and your guy was a scrawny turd.

-Respawn- In some areas of the game where you have to hit a checkpoint to move on... there are spots where dinosaurs will respawn until you move forward to kill the humans, I'm trying to line up my bow shot.. since I can't hold it back forever. like even I could irl with a compound.. dinos respawn and hit me.

-The Knife- right trigger, ok I did that RT RT RT!!!! great, I'm glad it decides to work when it wants to. on humans its easy to pull off.. but on dinos it just wont trigger. OR after you kill a dino with the knife you lag until you go back "in your body" and end up staring at the ground.

-The Dinosaurs- See above, also.. in some ares they once again magically fly out of nowhere to add shock value. This was exactly how ALL of doom 3 was and another reason why this game fails. not to mention the lousy attack motions they have.. you don't even know you're getting hit, your screen just starts to get more red. Most of the time when you are fighting more than 1 dino you start to get lost trying to turn your camera fast enough to find out where the others went after you get jumped on or knife one.

In closing, games like Halo 3 and CoD4 all have good reasons why an enemy should be where it is.. even if it isn't spoken, its just common sense. this game.. Helicopters fly out of nowhere in the middle of forests and drop guys off.. wtf? ANY game nowadays can have good graphics. graphics mean nothing now when rating a game.

Ugh.. I want my 7.99 back for renting this load of garbage, I think I'm gonna Email the company.

 

[Makelith]

Its sounding like you just didn't like it because you weren't very good at it?

 

[Olrox]

Nah FPS games are easy, I slay on halo 3 and CoD4, its not that it's hard at all I just can't stand the flaws. I beat the Trex boss without even getting hit. just always rent before buying. If others enjoy this game then I hope they get the most out of it ^^ I just don't care for this one at all.