Turok clips show off multiplayer

by Justin McElroy { Dec 3rd 2007 at 5:26PM }

It's difficult to watch these recently released multiplayer clips of Turok and be completely satisfied. Sure, what's here looks solid, but the one key omission is so glaringly obvious, we're not even going to mention it. ... What, don't you see it? It's the only thing we can see: None of the players are dinosaurs.

It's a fact that playing as a dinosaur is considered by many experts to be the raddest thing you can do in a video game, short of skydiving into a dynamite factory. In our younger years, we went so far as the pick up the Genesis version of Jurassic Park just so we could experience the thrill of playing as a velociraptor. It's been nearly 15 years since then, and our thirst to rend human flesh with our razor-like teeth and talons still has yet to be slaked. Come on, Touchstone Studios, just think about it. The opportunity is lying right there, like a golden ... thing, just waiting to be picked up and pawned. ... Or is that pwned?

Tags: buena-vista-games, dinosaurs, turok

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Deck @ Dec 3rd 2007 5:35PM

Maybe its because I am not a fully engrossed shooter drooler, but it doesn't look that great to me. I mean, looks a bit unique as you play against other players as well as random dinosaurs attempting to kill you but... meh. Seems like many of them (shooters)just start blending together as the same damn thing.

Though, playing as a T-REX would be ultimate savagery!

Marc Federico @ Dec 4th 2007 2:03AM

there is a t-rex, i read it a few months ago, confirmed by teamxbox. check out the article, it is a dev interview with a lot of cool stuff about the multiplayer and how the maps are all non-static.

sifer2400 @ Dec 3rd 2007 5:36PM

wow that looks like its a really bad game im sure all those team killing people will love this game lol

sifer2400 @ Dec 3rd 2007 5:36PM

wow that looks like its a really bad game im sure all those team killing people will love this game lol

Sokkratez @ Dec 3rd 2007 5:39PM

Watching him try to aim the bow at that dude was painful. Oh, the gamepad...

Jeff @ Dec 3rd 2007 6:14PM

They shoulda used the PC version for the video =P

Phranctoast @ Dec 3rd 2007 6:14PM

nice. I was about to comment on how inferior the gamepad is with that one clip.

Vidikron (FU) @ Dec 3rd 2007 9:09PM

That dude just can't aim... even I'm far better aiming with a pad than that and I'm no where near the skill of the top players on consoles.

Jeff @ Dec 3rd 2007 5:41PM

To me, this actually looks pretty solid. I'd never buy a Turok game for the multiplayer, but it's always an added bonus.

Can't wait to pwn some dinosaur bitches, though.

pcguy89 @ Dec 3rd 2007 5:47PM

Anyone else here thinking of Conker's Bad Fur Day for the N64?

danny. @ Dec 3rd 2007 5:48PM

Seems like there are too many grenade and rocket type weapons and fighting off the dinosaurs looks like more of a hastle than a real threat (hammer on the triggers for face stabbing action?), I mean the guy was low on health and it still didn't kill him.

Obie @ Dec 3rd 2007 5:51PM

It looks decent, like a poor man's Gears of War.
Those knife kills did look cool, but with my luck I would be the one at the receiving end. :(

Ken Seang @ Dec 3rd 2007 5:58PM

Didn't Turok 2 let u play as a dinosaur? N in Conker u play as one too! But yea the look of the game looks like a budget title...

Brucie B @ Dec 3rd 2007 5:59PM

Anybody down for some Frag Tag... lmao

JarMustard @ Dec 3rd 2007 5:59PM

for me, the last nail in the coffin for turok >1 was that arrows did not arc. seeing that they do in this iteration renewed my hope in the series for some reason

NATO_Duke @ Dec 3rd 2007 6:09PM

The only reason nobody is playing as a dinosaur is because you have to level-up to unlock it. I am betting that you have to be a level 13 paladin with a 3x multiplier..oh wait...damn. Wrong form of geekdom.

ThornedVenom @ Dec 3rd 2007 6:14PM

"None of the players are dinosaurs"

=> Go get Pokemon Mystery Dungeon.

bigsofty @ Dec 3rd 2007 6:18PM

I like the look of this, plenty of of gore, big guns and dinos... it cant go wrong! ;)

stik_man @ Dec 3rd 2007 6:19PM

WOW! looks like a FPS!!!!! can't wait!! Ohhh wait I played this one already... I think it was called Wolfenstien 3d... that one had dinosaurs right? Ehhhh either way it's on the bandwagon to Loser-ville.

SHOTGUN!

baby sea tuna @ Dec 4th 2007 8:45AM

Oh right, I forgot, there have been absolutely no advances in first-person shooters since Wolfenstein 3-D. Thanks for cleverly pointing out how stupid we all are for still trying to support a genre that's obviously been dead for 20 years! I guess Nintendo should stop making Mario games because everyone knows that nobody will ever make a platformer better than Jumpman for the Commodore 64, right?

Asshole.

tmacairjordan87 @ Dec 3rd 2007 6:22PM

wow, i see no reason to play this over COD 4 or any of the other trillion online FPS games. It looks like the developers made this while under the effects of too much "meh". Also looks terribly unbalanced, why does every weapon have to explode for 1 hit kills?

Jeff @ Dec 3rd 2007 6:30PM

Because n00bs are playing.

RDX @ Dec 3rd 2007 6:32PM

Anybody else think the weapons look decidedly unspectacular? The old Turok games had some kick ass weapons (cerebral bore, razor wind) but these look generic by comparison.

bm @ Dec 4th 2007 6:53AM

Indeed. Where's the cerebral bore, all the different exotic green and blue weapons with different strange effects, and the axe? Everything looks so fucking generic right down to making the player a fucking marine or something. EVERY GODDAMN FPS OUT THERE ALREADY HAS MARINES, TUROK HAS INDIANS YOU FUCKS!!! Or at least futuristic mad-max looking types. None of this mindnumbingly boring realistic soldier crap that we've seen way way way too many times.

Batzarro @ Dec 3rd 2007 6:34PM

Being a raptor owns!

gonk @ Dec 3rd 2007 6:57PM

i wanna be a pterodactyl and bite people's heads off

evilbillcosby @ Dec 3rd 2007 7:03PM

i thought the face stabbing was the only cool part

in general, this is still turok alright (not a good thing)

Noga @ Dec 3rd 2007 7:45PM

It looks worse by the noticeably weird, jerky aiming that the player is doing.

Vegeta (aka Ska Oreo) @ Dec 3rd 2007 7:49PM

Here's a scenario that I've been playing in my head ever since this game got announced:

I'm playing multiplayer. I'm having a shootout with this random player and he's about to kill me. Out of fucking nowhere, a fucking T-Rex comes out,grabs the enemy player and rips him into pieces. That would be so full of win, I would literally shed manly tears if I saw it.

Jeff @ Dec 3rd 2007 7:51PM

Lmao. I can imagine no greater smiting of one's foe.

gonk @ Dec 3rd 2007 9:10PM

and the trex is controlled by another player (who is having the time of his life)

maybe they could make it where there are 2 human teams, and after 5 deaths you respawn on the dino team

that'd be a fun mode

ThornedVenom @ Dec 4th 2007 1:59AM

The only thing better than that is having a T-rex laser pointer.

Instead of summoning a missile carpeting sequence, or targeting a hugeass laser from a satellite, you call T-rexes to rampage that spot.

From that point on, the only thing better than that is a grenade loaded with T-rex pheromones.