Turok: Everybody’s favorite Native American is back!
Dinosaurs are interesting. Gory shooters are cool. Rambo’s Cool. And the Xbox 360’s cool too. What happens when you jumble all that up? You get the new Turok Game, Of course! Turok would be as cool as say… Rotten Grape-Fruit, if the game series hadn’t thrown in one thing when it was made in the early Ninty’s: Dinosaurs. It was Unique in always thanks to the point it had no plot and you got to blow the guts out of dinosaurs and other weird monsters. The New Turok game has taken a spin from that: It has a plot! That being not the only thing, it’s full of cool online play and fun Rambo like sneaking engines. If you’re a fan of dinosaurs, mutated lobsters or guys wearing gas masks, I think you’ll like this game. You play as the all new Joseph Turok (In previous games you were Tallset.) an ex-wolf pack member. What’s Wolfpack? To my understanding I think they’re terrorists… Anyways, he’s recruited by the Space Marines onto a ship to hunt down Wolf pack leader “Kaine” and bring him back to Earth alive. A missile hits your space ship and you and your crew are sent hurtling down onto a planet infested with Wolf Pack member bases and Inhumane creatures. (Yes, I mean dinosaurs: But you’re in for a surprise, there’s more.)
Game play is pretty good; Especially if you’re a fan of Rambo. If Rambo was on a tropical planet full of dinosaurs and Terrorists, he’d do what he’d do when sneaking through the jungle full of police officers. You can perform tons of great combos with your combat knife from jumping on top of a T-Rex and smashing his cranium to picking up a small, clumsy dinosaur and cutting open his neck. There’s a whole array of Herbivores who you can just kill for fun. On the darker side away from the joy of hunting dinosaurs, you have to fight humans too, which brings the game play down a lot. Even on easy, Humans are plain frustrating and repetitive to fight. The controls will also bring you down if you’re used to playing Halo or Call of Duty. The best part is probably online play. Not only can you sneak up on online opponents and engage in 4 way battles on Death match mode, but there are free roaming dinosaurs scattered on the map. Depending on what map you choose (I’m not sure if T-Rex’s are on any of the maps) there are different dinosaurs that have their own neutral party. Say you’re engaged in a knife fight when a raptor jumps out from an opening in the wall. I’ve only been to one map so far where there were raptors, but I know it must be a great element that not many new games will pick up any time soon.
Turok earns a solid 8/10. While campaign can some times drag on, Dinosaurs, Rambo and Online play sometimes saves the game.
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