When I first heard of a new installment of the Turok series, I was cautiously optimistic. The first 2 games were awesome, then the series sort of trailed into obscurity. The demo has recently been released and I gave it a good play through. Needless, to say, I was not that impressed at all. You start in this cave with a fellow NPC who keeps telling you to hurry up or he will leave you…? Yeah, thanks dick. Anyway, random dinosaurs are roaming around and leap at you. The weapons are rather basic and no one tells you that you can use your knife for an easy kill(until much later) unless you do it out of exploration. The knife kills are way too easy though; taking a Raptor down with a blade can’t be that simple.

Anyway, you exit the caves and end up fighting some soldiers in a lush jungle. The graphics here are decent, but nowhere nearing the status of eye-opening. They tell you now how to stealth kill, which you can do, until one soldier spots you, and all hell breaks loose. You then fight your way through the tide of enemies and the demo ends. Its surprisingly short for a 1.2gb download.

All in all, this seems just like another FPS trying to make a name for itself. The demo did not show much. The voice over work is sub-par and the game play is nothing to write home about. The game does not look bad, but there is and will be plenty of FPS’s on the way that will trample Turok. This will likely be destined to the “maybe rent”dimension. Not what the developers had in mine.