What?! I paid how much for this? – Turok
Well, I have been needing a new game for a little while now after finishing Assassins Creed, and I decided to pick up Turok. I had a cousin who played all the way through the game and thought that if he could spend the time playing through it then it must be worth playing. So I ran over to my local Eb Games and laid down $52 dollars. To get to the point: the game is horrible.
After installing the game I found out that the CDs are using copy protection, no CD-Keys or anything, just the infernal SecuROM copy protection. Now if I didn’t know how to circumvent this protection the game would have been unplayable, as the game will not even load. (to do this enter cmd into the run command to open a command prompt then type rd /s “%APPDATA%\SecuROM” and then enter y to the question that comes up)
Once you finally get the game to load and start the game, you are presented with a cut scene and a short training session then you are put into the game world. Upon entering the first actual area, you notice that the graphics look like they are 4 years old, nothing spectacular in any fashion. As you continue to play through you notice that the character animations are terrible, and are choppy (even at high FPS). After a few enemy encounters you notice that the enemies AI is so bad that you can kill someone right beside them and they just stand around. I even encountered times where I was standing right in front of the enemy and they didn’t see me at all. Guns also float when they should be laying on the ground. To top off terrible game design when I went up or down a ladder, enemies would just appear in places where I killed them before, they didn’t come from anywhere, they just appeared.
The only saving grace for this game is that the story so far appears to be interesting and present in the game, which all single player games need. While I realize that my 52 bucks was poorly spent, I will still try to play this game all the way through. I would only be more choked if I tossed the game aside and my hard earned money along with it. Do yourself a favor and skip this game.
October 7, 2008 at 12:48 am
i love you
January 19, 2009 at 1:25 am
dude the AI is beast what where you playing on normal? on inhuman and hard the AI is superb, the graphics are excellent, and the thing where enemies spawn out of nowhere that called unlimited enemies, ever heard of that? the action sequences are awesome damn i love stabbing Mendel Grumman in the back XD. the story was interesting and the boss battles where intense. So I say this game is awesome dont judge it to quick just cause the pc version sucks the xbox 360 and ps3 version are best
you should have gotten the 360 version
January 29, 2009 at 8:27 pm
TUROK is an awesome game!!! No i do not like games that suck and the game does lack a few things like the triangle coin things, but the game is overall a good one and worth the money. Games in general are subject to scrutiny due to them not meeting the standards of every person but if the overall game is fun, then the purpose of the game has been met professionally.