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Turok: Evolution (GameCube)

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]

Acclaim
Action, First-Person Shooter
Players: 4
M (Mature)
Developer: Acclaim Studios Austin
Released August 28, 2002

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

70 / 100

Critic Reviews

100	Maxim Online The sickest shooter this side of Xbox killer app "Halo."
80	netjak A very strong game! In fact it's one of the best available for the GC.
80	GamePro A decent next phase for Turok.
80	Play Magazine To get the most out of the Turok experience, don't hesitate to go with the superior GameCube version. [Oct 2002, p.80]
78	Game Informer If the developers concentrated on refining the action and devising even more creative ways to destroy, I would've loved Turok. [Nov 2002, p.133]
76	Armchair Empire There are quite a few cleverly incorporated puzzles and intriguing level layouts for those that like to play with their thinking caps on, but TE still manages to pack in the action for those that like to run and gun.
75	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]
75	GameZone It is such a shame to see this game not live up to its full potential.
73	GameSpot Exactly how much the Turok series has evolved with this latest installment is debatable, but the game does provide a healthy dose of shooting lizards with big guns, and, in the end, that's why we play Turok.
70	GameSpy Lacking innovation, the repetitive gameplay will only appease fans of the series, but the multiplayer mode makes it worth a look.
69	IGN At times I was thoroughly amused, sniping enemies and causing mayhem, while at other moments I was frustrated and in a state of pure tedium.
65	Nintendophiles The developer’s weariness with the franchise was accentuated by the drastic difference in quality between the flight and ground missions. The actual shooting in this FPS is only half complete, and it was greatly overshadowed by the in-game flying.
64	Nintendo Power The first-person perspective viewpoint can be disorienting, especially with no map or radar feature. [Nov 2002, p.220]
60	GamerWeb Nintendo It suffers from average-at-best graphics, questionable sound effect and voice-over quality and the longest load times of any GameCube game I've ever played.
60	eToychest The final nitpick I will make is the load times. Dear god! They are easily over a minute. It's like the code for the game is being written on the fly between levels.
58	Gaming Age Mediocre.
58	Game Revolution It's a shame that some poor game design choices mar an otherwise pretty game, one with potential and one that they clearly spent a lot of time on.
40	All Game Guide Perhaps Turok would have been more acceptable had it been released a few years ago, but the genre has, interestingly enough, "evolved" to the point where this game looks and plays downright primitive.
32	Nintendojo Load times in the game are unbearable. It takes one full minute just to load the options menu. No joke...Turok Evolution screams two words: rush job.

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