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Mixed or average reviews- based on 101 Ratings

  • Summary: Turok is an epic, story-driven FPS game set on a dark, mysterious planet in the near future. Players take on the role of Joseph Turok, a former Black Ops commando, now part of an elite Special Forces squad on a mission to take down a war criminal on a genetically-altered planet. After the ship is shot down while approaching the planet, Joseph Turok must use his instincts and elite military training to elude an army of well-trained soldiers, and the ravenous, unpredictable creatures that populate the dangerous environment. Joseph Turok’s mission? Survive at all costs. [Touchstone] Expand
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  1. Positive: 22 out of 63
  2. Negative: 0 out of 63
  1. Even with a weak script, Turok's flexible play mechanics, strong level designs, and high production values make the story mode alone worth the price of admission. [Jan 2008, p.49]
  2. Overall, Turok is a great addition to the Xbox 360 library and stands as the best game to arrive on the console so far in this early part of 2008.
  3. Turok is a fun and entertaining game that could have been significantly better.
  4. Turok is a fun FPS game, but one that lacks depth in many aspects. In the end, odds are players will fail to immerse themselves in a setting as bland and superficial as this.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 22 out of 34
  2. Negative: 7 out of 34
  1. MikeJ.
    9
    Very good game. Solid mechanics and loads of fun killing dinos.
  2. MaxB.
    8
    Yeah, the game's got it's fault. If you could remove their helmets, the army of cookie-cutter bad guys would be thrilled that after not making the cut in Killzone, they got a second chance with Turok. And the lack of a radar sets you up for attacks from all sides, sending you spinning to figure out what's going on. But the visuals are good, the animations are great, and for a pretty straight-forward story, the characters and the voice work are top notch. It's not going to be a Halo 3 or a Call of Duty 4 by any means, but it's still an entertaining and well made game. Expand
  3. 7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. 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. Expand
  4. BobP
    4
    Exceptional production values and immersion completely cripped by horrible AI and story and direction. The atmosphere is great, then your �39;friendly' AI runs right in your line of fire and stands and stares at you as you try and aim around him to kill a guy *shooting at you*. You find yourself in a tense showdown with a giant dino only to have 'get over here' played over the radio every 5-10 seconds. The situations you are in and the gameplay are really good, and if the game only focused on that instead of trying to inject a worthless story, it would be worth getting. Expand

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