Storyline

Gameplay

If you choose multi player you get to choose how many players you want to have in the game. There can be a maximum of four people playing at once, and if you don't have four HUMANS available you can always throw in a couple of bots. There are three difficulties to choose from, but after you've played for a while none of them are all that hard to beat, which is a bit of a shame.

Anyway, after you've chosen the amount of players you want in the matches it's time to choose characters. The more you play in the quest-mode kind of thing the more characters and character-skins you will unlock. Most characters are very similar to each other, but there are ones with their own special abilities. The raptor for an example: It's unable to use weapons and have to fight using its claws. The normal Z-attack is a fast swing with the claws and a B-button attack will result in a furious attack using the hind legs. The raptor is also much faster than the other characters.

So yeah, there are a couple of these special characters for you to discover. After choosing your characters it's time to choose five weapons from a rather large selection. And the same as with the characters, the more you play the quest mode the more weapons you unlock. There are four different kinds of weapons that use different kinds of ammunition. There is a rather powerful warhammer that everyone is equipped with (except for SPESHUL CHRCTERSS!!11) and it doesn't need any ammo, obviously. Then we have the weapons that requires blue ammo (bullets), such as a shotgun, rifle, minigun, and more. And theeeeeeeen we have the weapons that requires green ammo (energy-cells). Those are the coolest and most unique weapons. We have the Inflator that sort of pumps air into the victim causing it to grow larger. If you toggle to the secondary function of this weapon you'll be able to shoot a vicious burst of the airy-stuff into an enemy, and it causes a lot of damage. You can make your enemies so big that they'll pop. Yay!

Another energy-weapon is the classic plasma rifle. This is a powerful rifle that shoots beams of plasma. If you press the B-button you'll get a scope-function for it. Yay! It rules. Ah well, there are lots of other energy weapons that are even cooler, but I'll let you find out about them yourself. Now for the last kind of weapons . . . the ones that requires reeeeeeeeeed ammunition! Explosive weapons, that is. Well . . . The weapons themselves don't explode, they just fire stuff that explodes. You know . . . bombs and grenades and stuff.

There are three RED weapons in the game. The scorpion launcher, which is actually nothing but a fancy name for a weapon that launches missiles. Then we have the grenade launcher, which was left without a fancy name. And last, but certainly not least, the napalm something! You fire napalm-thingies that can attach to anything, even enemies, and you make them blow up with a simple press on the B-button. Yay!

Well . . . there actually is a fifth type of weapons . . . the ones you only can find in the arenas. The fifth group consists of beartraps, land mines, and turrets. These can be placed in strategic locations to fuck things up for your opponents.

Enough about the weapons . . . when you're done selecting your WEAPONS you just get to choose level. Nothing much to say about choosing levels, really. Well, you can either choose everyone vs. everyone levels, team-levels (where you join different teams, obviously), catch the flag-or-some-shit-like-that-levels (where you get points if you catch a flag and then bring it to a certain part of the stage), or shoot-the-freaking-monkey/hen/small dinosaur-levels, where one person is turned into an animal of some sort and then the rest of the players have to kill him/her before he/she finds the white thing that turns him back to normal. If he finds it someone else will be turned into an animal.

When the course selectin part is done you just have to shoot each other. Hmm . . . you can also create your own characters, which adds a whole other levelt o the game. Not appearance-wise, but name-wise. Your save file will keep record of such information as how many frags you've got, how many times you've died, how many matches you've won, how many thingies you've collected, and how many medals you've collected. There are several ways to get medals. Each multiplayer course has got its own medal, and if you play really well on it you'll get it. It's harder than it sounds. You will also get medals if you beat a boss in the trial-mode or if you kill a certain amount of people. There are 50-something medals to get. I've still got seven left, but I have no idea how to get them or what they stand for. Maybe I'll get one if I kill ten thousand people. Hmm . . . Ah well, enough about me, let's talk about you- I mean . . . Turok. The medal thing is what has kept me playing this game for so many years, and it really brings something extra to the game.

Ok. Now for the trial-modes. Here you get to follow a certain path of arenas where you have to accomplish certain objectives. The objectives are usually to achive a number of frags, tags, or flag-captures, but they can also be something like "KILL DA FAWKIN BOSS CAUSE IM A COPP U IDIOT! LMFAO!" Well . . . You get the general idea. If you play well in the trials you will be rewarded with new weapons, new characters, new skins, medals, thingies, cheats, and even new game-modes! Yay!

Graphics

Sound

Replayability

The only drawback as far as replayability goes is if you don't have friends or family members to play it with. Completing all the Trial missions is a challenge, but fighting CPU controlled characters only in multiplayer gets rather easy when you have a few dozen hours pumped into the game.

Originality

Overall

Ratings

August 4, 2011 - 07:25 BST - Nate

Also, maybe I'll start reviewing games that have been released within the past six months for once thanks to my new disposable (heavy emphasis on this word) income. Maybe.

June 12, 2010 - 15:30 GMT - Benny

May 31, 2010 - 15:53 GMT - Benny