Turok: Evolution

What, another Turok game?what could possibly be new this time? Read on, brave hunter?you may be surprised.

Turok has always been an ambitious game, but its first three installments were limited by the hardware they were confined to, the Nintendo 64. With this?the first next-gen entry in the series?Turok evolves into a topnotch console corridor shooter.

Rumble in the Jungle
Evolution follows the adventures of Tal?Set, the mightiest dinosaur hunter to bear the Turok name, and his battle against the evil Captain Brucker and his horde of dinosaur warriors. Evolution?s diverse missions range from head-on combat to stealth infiltration to aerial combat on the back of a giant flying bird.

Of course, it can?t be Turok without an arsenal of exotic weapons, and Evolution has some of the best toys yet. Along with the standard Tek Bow are grenades, pistols, machine guns, and something called the Swarm-Bore, which unleashes metallic termites that devour a victim down to the bone. There?s even a poison arrow that makes enemies vomit before they die. Even with the violence turned off, Evolution is fairly grisly stuff that more than earns its Mature rating.

?Evil-ution??
Evolution features the required aesthetics. Vibrant graphics nicely hold their own in one-player mode, but are rife with slowdown and frame-rate problems in multiplayer deathmatches. The dynamic music score is a perfect match for the onscreen mayhem, but the bland sound effects should pack more punch?especially weapon discharges. Solid controls easily take you through the game?once you get past a learning curve.

Even those who weren?t fans of earlier Turok games will find more than enough intense action and carnage to stay thoroughly entertained. Evolution is a decent next phase for Turok.

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