Turok

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• VGVideo Gamer

  Tom Orry · Feb 14, 2008

  5.0

  So, Turok isn't an awful game, it's just an unbelievably frustrating one. Try as I might to like it, the game almost insisted that I didn't. Every good moment is countered by at least a handful of near soul destroying problems and every stunning piece of scenery is blighted by too much darkness and an erratic frame rate. A selection of solid multiplayer game modes aren't enough to make up for a poorly put together game, relegating the latest Turok to a league it simply shouldn't have found itself in.

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• GGameSpot

  Jason Ocampo · Feb 11, 2008

  7.0

  In the end, like many Hollywood blockbusters, Turok doesn't leave much of an impression when you're done with it. It's a game about battling dinosaurs, and though it does a good job at that, there's not much more to it. The nondinosaur sequences are fairly conventional for the genre, and it all makes for a solid but not great game.

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• GTGame Trailers

  Game Trailers · Feb 01, 2008

  8.3

  Turok is undoubtedly the first pleasant surprise of 2008. It doesn’t try to reinvent the wheel, but working within its accepted elements it does a great job of dumping you in the jungle and making you feel like you’re fighting for your life. The single-player quest is a bit on the short side and the multiplayer is somewhat derivative, but it’s a nice return to form for a franchise that many had written off as extinct.
• CCheatcc

  Matt Cabral · Jan 31, 2008

  7.6

  The one major flaw in Turok's next-gen debut is its lack of checkpoints. The game saves automatically but far too infrequently, resulting in players running on the trial-and-error treadmill to the point of frustration. Sadly, this can't be easily overlooked, especially for casual gamers just looking for a little dino-blasting fun.

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• IIGN

  GREG MILLER · Jan 31, 2008

  7.3

  There's no doubt that Turok can be fun, but ultimately, the feeling of satisfaction that comes with slitting a raptor's throat or pulling off a headshot with your bow is lost in the shuffle of swarming enemies, less than stellar visuals and a story that disappears. Do I recommend Turok for folks just looking for a game to run through with two shotguns in hand? Yes, but I wouldn't expect to walk away from playing with your mind blown.

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• EGEuro Gamer

  Tom Bramwell · Feb 11, 2008

  6.0

  Overall though, you can't really give it too much credit either. Turok is at its best when you slow down and make use of your surroundings and arsenal. The reason it loses so many points is that it can be at its absolute worst ten seconds later, and that while its lows are paralysingly dreadful, its peaks are never much more than competent, or fleeting novelties spoilt by cliché, repetition or sloppiness.

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