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Turok: Evolution
Mixed or average reviews
Based on 20 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 12 votes
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Game Info
Publisher: Acclaim
Developer: Acclaim Studios Austin
Genre(s): First-Person Shooter, Action
Players: 2
ESRB Rating: M (Mature)
Release Date: August 31, 2002
Summary
Turok: Evolution is a prequel that takes us back to the origins of the Turok lineage. In the beginning of the game, we see our hero, Tal'Set, fighting his nemesis Captain Tobias Bruckner in 1886 Texas. During the battle, a rift between their world and the Lost Lands opens and Tal'Set is sucked into it. Tal'Set, injured and near death, is nursed back to health by the natives of the River Village, a colony in hiding from the Lost Land's greatest threat: the Lord Tyrannus and his reptilian hordes. Tal'Set becomes a reluctant participant in the brutal war that is raging in the Lost Land. Bent on a "holy mission" to purify the land through slaughter and misery, Tyrannus appoints a new general to his armies, and Tal'Set discovers to his horror that it is Bruckner, who was also swept into the Lost Lands through the rift. [Acclaim]
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What The Critics Said
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Play Magazine
It's been too long since I've played an FPS that contains this much engaging challenge and fierce energy. [Oct 2002, p.80]
Entertainment Weekly
A solid title - but still, we would have loved to see a game that was less evolutionary and more revolutionary. [27 Sept 2002, p.89]
Game Informer
The lackluster play control cannot be denied. [Oct 2002, p.82]
TotalGames.net
What you have is a mish-mash of two gameplay styles, neither of which is particularly enthralling. Particularly not when you’ve got games like "Timesplitters 2" hitting the streets at almost the same time.
Read Full Review >G4 TV
The problem is that most of Turok feels as if the developers were trying to emulate another game (mostly "Halo"), with exceedingly mixed results.
Read Full Review >GameSpot
A bread-and-butter console shooter that will let you blast enemies to your heart's content, but not a whole lot else. If that's good enough for you, then go for it.
Read Full Review >Armchair Empire
A difficult FPS-style game that suffers from a few short-comings that prevent it from being a truly great game.
Read Full Review >Electric Playground
If you have other consoles and are going to get a version of it, it's probably better to look at the GameCube and Xbox versions.
Read Full Review >GameSpy
It's an unpolished game that will drown players in nostalgia for the first several chapters, but it's nothing we haven't all played before.
Read Full Review >IGN
Isn't a horrible game, but underneath its pretty exterior and impressive CG work, is a mediocre, linear game, replete with erratic AI, annoying voice acting, an over-reliance on weapon animation and kill animations.
Read Full Review >PSM Magazine
The AI ranges from pretty good to downright lame. [Nov 2002, p.41]
PSX Nation
Oh well, at least the flawed PS2 ports of "Max Payne" and "Blood Omen 2" now have something else to point at that has just as much unfulfilled potential as they did when they were released.
Read Full Review >GamerWeb Sony
The game's visual bugs, familiar gameplay, and suspect framerate make this game seem more like a devolution.
Read Full Review >netjak
I enjoy certain parts of this game, however a big majority of the game is rather boring, and once you beat it, there's absolutely no reason to play it again.
Read Full Review >Electronic Gaming Monthly
It's the boring level designs that annoy me the most. [Nov 2002, p.296]
Game Revolution
Though the gameplay, levels and story are exactly the same across all three platforms, the PS2 version is the worst of the lot due to the choppy graphics and limited multiplayer.
Read Full Review >Gaming Age
The GameCube and Xbox versions outshine the PlayStation version by a wide margin. Textures, framerate and clarity are all done far better on the Xbox and Cube, while the PS2 suffers greatly from poor framerates, bland textures, and bad draw in.
Read Full Review >Official U.S. Playstation Magazine
A sad, painfully executed experience that can't hold a candle to the former glory. [Nov 2002, p.192]
What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this game is 7.2 (out of 10) based on 12 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Sam gave it a 3:
Alex s. is a fool. The graphics are on par with the worst of NES, the plot is terrible, and the controls are horrible. Suprisingly however, the controls are the same but feel smoother in multyplayer, and there is no plot, so the multyplayer is suprisingly entertaining, but the single player still is sickinglily bad and the graphics are still terrible in both so the multyplayer is entertaining, but the remainder of the game has way to many flaws so if you want to enjoy this game, go with the multyplayer. Or if your not a big fan of multypalyer overall, get the orignal classic for your dino-asskicking spree.
Rigel T. gave it a 10:
This game is the best game I've ever played it has action beyond gaming. Its like a virtual world it realy gets your skills to the test and thats why I gave it a ten!
HwS gave it a 10:
Dinosaurs r great.
Prof. Frink gave it a 10:
Awesome that's all I can say just simply, awesome!
Alex S. gave it a 10:
This game kicks ass for 4 reasons. #1 the graphics are AMAZING!! from the blood and gore to the details of the enimies. #2 the flying levels. it is F-U-N! you get to go on a pereldayctal and shoot down enimies. wide veriety of enimies here. from supplie ships to parashooting slegs (bad guys). there is just one minor drawback in thes levels. one little crash in a wall and you're dead. it can be very frusterating but sooner or later you will get uesd to it. #3 the length. this game......... wow im so impressed with it. there are 15 chaptetrs in it so its not short at all. it took me 2 months of hour a day play to beat it. #4 the weapons. WOW!!! there are so many weapons. they range from a warclub (the basic wepon of the game) to a gravitie disrupter (i geuss you have a PRETTY good idea what this does) and also most wepaons have secondary funtions. so with a gernade you have a bacic bomb witch you just throw then you get spikes on it. so when a pack of enimies come just throw it and then the spikes dig in there skin and stick but without them knowing. so then it bloes up killing most of the enimies. just....do me a....favor....... just buy this.....this.........awesome game....please........
Nate W. gave it a 5:
Nothing special. 5 instead of 1 pionts because you can blast an arm or leg or head off. This is what really got my blood boiling: Why the hell can the enemy shoot me from a damn mile away with a regular rifle shooting from the hip. If you want the best FPS(for PS2) out there get Medal of Honor Frontline (no not rising sun it sucked).
Snelly AcE gave it a 7:
I thought this game was pretty good, the story mode was well done the only thing lacking is the multiplayer mode in which when you shoot a rocket at things it lags quite a while. Bummer. Pretty good story though.
