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Turok | 
| From: Disney Interactive Studios
Category: Video Games
List Price: $49.99
Buy New: $16.87
You Save: $33.12 (66%)
New (27) Used (7) from $7.19
Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 8673
Format: Cd
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows Xp
Genre: Action Games
ESRB: Mature
Media: Video Game
Edition: Standard
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 1.1
MPN: 7000301
Model: 7000301
UPC: 044702022823
EAN: 0044702022823
ASIN: B000Y5DTJK
Release Date: April 29, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Strategic Combat Choose to take out your enemies with quiet kills or massive firepower. | | • | Intense Dino Combat Battle vicious dinosaurs or lure them to attack your enemies | | • | Explosive Weapons Choose from 13 deadly weapons with most featuring a secondary function | | • | Intelligent A.I. Enemy soldiers advance to flank and dinosaurs reacts in unpredictable predatory and defensive behavior | | • | Frenetic Multiplayer Action - Take the fight on-line with intense action for up to 16 players on dinosaur-infested maps |
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Product Description
What seemed at first to be a simple mission has turned into a deadly game of survival. You are Joseph Turok, an ex-member of Wolf Pack, the most savage, merciless black ops squad of its time. Now you have been given a special order from Whiskey Company, an elite commando team, to capture and detain Roland Kane from his fortress on a worthless, backwater planet. Kane is an escaped war criminal, the once-legendary leader of Wolf Pack...and your former mentor. But Kane is in command of a secret paramilitary force funded by the Mendel-Gruman (M-G) Corporation. When your ship approaches the planet, you are blasted out of the sky by Kane's troops. Now you are stranded in a dangerous world. Vicious prehistoric beasts of all shapes and sizes roam the terrain, attacking anything that moves. Your teammates are either killed or scattered. Ruthless M-G forces are hunting the ones who are not dead. You have no weapons. How will you survive?
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| Customer Reviews: Read 2 more reviews...
 Critisized to hard October 16, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Ok first of ifind many reviews of this game overly critical< i found teh game quite enjoyable though not all together entirely imerseing, That's not a bad thing , as sometimes it is great to have a game you can just play and stop (i do have to tend to my game art design homework for school)
first lets look at this games good points
1. Kick A-- graphics Via Unreal 3 engine
2. solid Level Design that is never confusing not frustrating
3. nice story
4. fun game play particularly the dino spots
5. KICK A-- knife scenes when you do a special knife kill
Now the bad
1. not optimised properly for the PC and couldn't find a patch (in a very very few spots i ahd to turn my resolution down run at deccent frames , I have a very nice comp adn it runs UT3 flawlessly so this tells me they didnt really work on optimization for the pc version)
2. the drop/pick weapon system was a tad confusing but not to distracting
3. the knife cut scenes mention on the good list, ogt old after a while as tehy lacked variety
Now For stuff i think peple were overly critical of
1. copying other FPSers , ok lets fact the facts here , today there really isnt much new you can do with shooters that hasnt already been done, while this game didn't bring any thing new to the table i can say waht it did do , it did well, it didnt break any thign about the engine it was built on, in that respect I was a quite solid game and i really can't understad why peopel would critize it for doing something that COUNTLESS shooters do regardless of rather or not thy are on the top of the cream, EVERY Shooter in some part boorws ideas from a diferent shooter, this is how genres work, if they didnt then there woudlnt be a need for genres in teh first place.
2. Linear game, well of course , not every game can be an oblivion , or a GTA. sure this one didnt offer the sprawlign enviroments of stalker , or the little sand box feel of GTA and Far cry.I t did offer a good story and some tactical variety you can play throguh it and do thigns differnetly to a degree. and quite hoenstly i'm sick of this sand box game mentality, the way i figure , it a sandboxc doesnt suit the story , then why have it ? and on turok i don't a sand box would have fit this game and story , so i think people have been rather harsh in thier persepective on this issue in their reviews.
with all that said , i'd say the game is well worth at least 39 US dollars , i had the fortune of graping it at 8 bucks from here, if you can get it at a deal then do so it would be a steal.
now the run down of my general avargae frame rate while palying
in most spots my machine kept this game running at 40-60 fps at 1280x1024 witha f ew spots it dropped to 18-25 not bad but the game could have used some beter optimazations here.
now my machine specs :
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ Black edition (oc'ed to 3ghz)
2 gigs of Giel DDR2-800(pc6400) ram
Sound blaster X-fi xtreme music sound card
Nvidia Geforce 9600GT 512 mb vid ram (from Leadtek)
P.S. There is NO DRM on this game !!!!! :) so no hassles didnt even ahve a cd key , jsut a disk check to see if the g me is in the drive which shouldnt be an issues for any one two disck drives)
 Ok game lame duck multi July 13, 2008
This game can be fun in the single player mode. Really disappointed by the multi first it's a frickin ghost town, second the way the the multi is set up there is no browser the game decides who and where u play with it's kinda retarded. Hope this helped you fellow gamer this is 1 to avoid till it hits the less than $10 rack
BOUND FOR EXTINCTION May 28, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
What is truly amazing with this game is how trivial it looks and how fast it generates a feeling of "been there - done that". Yes, even if someone is new to the TUROK series - and I am not: I came with high expectations.
Graphically the game is beautiful yet not very original - and I for one did not appreciate the ever present darkness...The designers probably aimed for atmospheric terror but they obviously overshot their mark. Apples and oranges, but Hitchcock always had his terrors well lit - and that made them unforgettable. There are quite a few cheap shots in this area.
The dinosaurs are, well, ...JurassicPark-realistic (honestly, seen any real-life dinosaur lately?), whereas their growls and high-pitched pack-hunting sounds will keep raising the hairs in the back of your head no matter how many times encountered.
The occasional sidekick's AI is neither brilliant nor disastrous. At least it is not a burden (remember DAIKATANA anyone?). I liked the weapons, both the realistic and the futuristic ones. The gameplay is pretty straightforward but I would have liked more freedom in remapping the control keys (certain choices are not possible).
What I particularly did NOT like was the insertion of a (video) TP perspective whenever climbing stairs, opening doors or killing with the Kabar knife. I came across this peculiar approach in another game as well, TURNING POINT, in which it also outright ruined any immersion attempt.
If I could I would rate it at 2&1/2 stars but decided to be generous (the little boy in me is still fascinated by dinosaurs) and rounded it up. The game makes par but is probably currently overpriced.
My advice: wait for its fossil to hit the sale bins.
Don't do it! May 18, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This game sucks! If u like playing the same parts over and over again, then by all means buy this game. There are multiple times when u die and the game gets hung up somehow and ur in limbo and have to restart from an earlier point. There is no quick saves, even though the game has a button for it. The ending is practically impossible so if u like to finish games like I do, you will be spending almost as much time as it took u to play the entire game at the end just to finish it! Go buy Call of Duty 4 and be happy!
TUROK-O-BOMB-A: Leading FPS candidate for 2008? May 6, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Is Turok the leading FPS candidate this year? Is Turok a BOMB (slang...to fail miserably) NO to each, but there is some fun to be had here. I like FPS's and Dinosaurs so I had to try this out. Here are my first impressions after playing about 6 hours:
Quite high minimum system requirements
Comes on 2 DVD's, 18 Gigs hard drive space (biggest yet I've played), Win XP or Vista, 2.4 GHz Pentium or AMD Athlon 3400 equiv., 1 GB RAM, 128mb Direct X 9.0c, 3D video card (nVidia 6600 or better or ATI Radeon x1300 or better, excluding X1550), onboard integrated chipsets are not supported. 16 bit Direct X 9.0c sound card, 8xDVDROM drive. Does not use Direct X-10
Borrows significantly from better FPS's such as Far Cry, Half-Life 2, F.E.A.R.
Enemies with armored black suits and red eyes. Companion sniper (like Alex in Half-Life 2) picking off enemy soldiers and dinosaurs. Jungles, buildings, citadel settings, etc. Helicopter unloading soldiers from ropes.
What I liked
-Dinosaur modeling and movement is quite nice. Fast little & big buggers. Most have mean, "dinosaurish" sounds.
-Variety of weaponry with fairly good sounds and handling. Can use double weapons (eg. shotgun in each hand). Most weapons have dual use or alternate fire (eg. shotgun with shotgun or flare blast . Modern weapons and sci-fi types.
-Flare blast near/at enemy soldiers can lure dinos to them.
-Stealth killing enemies with the big Bowie Knife.
-Perforator bow with regular and tek (grenade) arrows. Silent, deadly.
-Nicely done "cloudy" cut scenes showing how Turok initially learned his combat skills.
-Good Native American accent (in English not Kiowa) & voice-acting for Turok .Big muscles, mean-looking too. One tough dude with Mohawk haircut.
-Large and varied environments, however, the graphics are only medium quality throughout. Sound and ambience is pretty good.
Didn't like
-High-priced software
-very long load-times even on my high-end computer
-unbalanced "checkpoint" save system. Some are too easy and short & others are too long & difficult requiring repeating the stage over and over
-Video clip repetition in showing the same dino kill per specie s when Turok uses the "left-mouse button display" for the one stab knife kill. Doesn't feel like you are part of the action when this happens. Neat the first few times but not so great thereafter.
-Belligerent and "smart-mouthed" companion mercenary (Slade) who would rather "trash talk" to you than do his fair share of dinosaur/ enemy killing. The sniper companion does a better job than Slade at helping out.
-Some stages do not have any dinosaurs and just battling enemy soldiers is quite average.
-Rag-doll effects aren't too great.
Summary
I'm having good fun with this title and will complete it. It isn't the best nor the worst FPS and I'd score it in the 70's on a 1-100 scale so far. With 18 GIGs it's likely to be a longer FPS than others. The DINOSAURS are what makes this game somewhat more unique than other shooters
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