Turok Demo Impressions

[SKRI]

Checked out the demo for Turok (360), just played through it. This could actually shape up to be a pretty decent shooter, and from what I played in the demo it still feels like Turok.

Very pretty graphics, great looking models and weapons, sound effects are what you'd expect to hear in a jungle full of dinosaurs and mercenaries. There's no health bar, which it takes a couple times to figure out "Death's G-Spot" before you die.

The controls work fine (i had to tune down my sensitivity a bit, but i could see why its so high; you'll constantly be checking your six in the jungle for raptors.

The quick kills featuring the knife are pretty cool, but i hope they're more varied in the full version of the game. any q's?

[Zerohour]

when did this come out? I'll have to check it out. ty

[Chlorofirm]

Cool, didn't eve know a demo came out. Definitely checking it out.

[jsc315]

is this the same turok as in from the N64? if so then i will deffinatly check it out.

[TheJew]

is this the same turok as in from the N64? if so then i will deffinatly check it out.

same franchise...but supposed to be totally revamped for next-gen

[cokelogic]

same franchise...but supposed to be totally revamped for next-genAgain. It always gets revamped for a new system and sucks a bag of dicks.

You said there's a demo on 360, I'm not seeing it on LIVE. Is the demo from some magazine DVD?

[SKRI]

a friend of mine at EB handed me one of the demo cds, you can get one by puttin down five bucks on reserve for the game or if ya know someone you could borrow it from. no live demo yet (havent checked live for a while). i dunno if OXM is gonna run a demo on their disc or not cuz i guess its specifically reserve.

[HumpX]

The Live! demo was supposed to be out this past Friday....wtf happened?

[newfie_lover]

Turok SP demo is now available for download at xbox live marketplace.

1.2 G

[Shadow812]

I will check it out when I get home

[Blue Heeler]

I tried to play the demo last week on PS3, but I thought it completely blew. Starting out in a dark cave is a horrible way to showcase a game.

[TheDrip]

Tension bow with explosive tipped arrows FTW!!!

[RabidHamster]

Another old and tired fps. Nothing to see here, move along.

[Monstercloud]

Tension bow with explosive tipped arrows FTW!!!

Welcome to Turok 1.

Turok fails....

Hard...

Harder than Tomb Raider.

[Plunkies]

There's never been a Turok game that didn't suck.

[Shadow812]

I thought it was ok. The CQK that you could do with the knife kicked ass. Othere then not nothing blew me away to the point where I want to go out and get this day one. I will get it at some point, but nothing to make me cream my pants over.

[cokelogic]

Another old and tired fps. Nothing to see here, move along.Middle of the road as far as I can tell from the demo. Seems better than the other Turok titles, but that isn't saying too much.

And here's an observation: anyone notice how Turok walks, the movement is like he's marching. It's a little goofy.

[HumpX]

The Good:

The knife is actually useful with some cool finishing move animations

The Not-So-Good:

Same "realistic" grey environmental aesthetic as every other Unreal 3 engine tech game. Incredibly boring weapons, linear, corny dialogue, annoying squad mate. Overall a pretty forgettable experience.

I can understand wanting to bring the series into line with current tastes but Turok should have better weapons than what is here. You mean to tell me a full sized dev team can't come up with an updated version of the cerebral bore that would look feasible? Unless the multiplayer somehow ends up being world-class, this looks like a rental for me.

There's never been a Turok game that didn't suck.

Beg to differ. Taken in the context of its time, the original Turok was very cool with features never seen in an FPS before. Turok 2, while a bit overly long in some spots was also a great game. It introduced the cerebral bore, non-linear gameplay with a world "hub" system that was unique for its time as well as having online multiplayer with weapons that made Quake/Quake II look dull by comparison. Turok 3 onwards truly sucked.

[RabidHamster]

O&A Party Turok

[TheJew]

the knife was fine when you had the chance to use it in an animation...using it alone sucked i couldn't even scrape a dino. also i didn't really like the constant switching between 1st & 3rd person when climbing stuff.

[25133WhooOoAH]

There's never been a Turok game that didn't suck.

I agree..they all blow and this one seems like it'll be the worst yet..the demo was atrocious....

The duel wielding is cheesy and The killing of dinos isn't very satisfying.

[Vyce]

I bought this for the 360 yesterday.

AND it looks like I might be trading it in for the PS3 version of the game tomorrow. Why? There appears to be some MAJOR fucking glitch with the game, specifically, as soon as I press the fire trigger - pressing it only ONCE - the gun fires, and DOESN'T STOP FIRING, UNTIL THE WHOLE FUCKING CLIP IS EMPTY.

Great work.

I'll see if I can change the controller settings tonight to determine if a different button will fix it. If it doesn't? This fucking thing is going to get traded in TOMORROW, and the PS3 version will be bought. I am at least confident that the PS3 version won't fuck up like that.