Tork: Prehistoric Punk Xbox
  • Publisher: Ubisoft
  • Release Date: Jan 12, 2005
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  • Summary: Not even time can stand in the way of Tork. This cave boy must travel through time to find those responsible for kidnapping his father and destroying his village. Not your ordinary hero, Tork can change into three spirit animals: a yeti, an armadillo, or a flying squirrel. As Tork, you must face dinosaurs, gargoyles, robots, and more as you fight your way from the Stone Age to the Age of Fantastical Machines. Dodge avalanches, volcanoes, and machines in a variety of fantastic environments.… Expand

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 21
  2. Mixed: 17 out of 21
  3. Negative: 1 out of 21
  1. Play Magazine
    88
    One of the prettiest games ever and wall-to-wall arcade fun. [Jan 2005, p.58]
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  2. Official Xbox Magazine
    76
    As any gamer will tell you, it's not necessarily about the innovative pathways a title forges, but in how it handles - and Tork handles the curves smoothly. [March 2005, p.79]
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  3. GamingTrend
    70
    Tork is a fairly short game, especially because of the skew towards younger gamers.
  4. G4 TV
    40
    The theory of evolution may not apply to Tork as a character, but it should darn well apply to video games.

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  1. Gem
    9
    Excellent platformer, worth 9 if you like the genre it's a non sense to give a bad rating to an excellent game just because you don't like the genre! Tork one of the best platformers.… Expand
  2. BlueFalcon
    4
    Platforming is my fav genre, but this one is way too bare bones, even for a discounted game. In the limited selection of platformers on xbox, this is among the worst that I've tried. It's not that it's unplayable or anything. The problem is that nothing in it impresses. How Play magazine can call it "one of the prettiest games ever", is simply ridiculous. The enemies repeat over and over. The environments are simple, bland, and don't have a lot going on in them. And the graphics look like they could be pulled off on the ps1. Mostly this game just disappoints. Tork originally looked like it would be among the xbox's best, but then it's development went into hibernation for literally years. It looks like they brought it out to finish the project as cheap as possible. The results show.… Expand