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As promised, here's my hands-on impression of Turok's single player demo. The demo is extremely short, but it is fun. I suggest anyone interested in playing the game to pre-order it so you can get the demo. And once you're done, go cancel your pre-order and make a GameSpot's managers life hell.

Hit the jump to read about the stab-orific game. 

The demo has your character, Joseph Turok, and buddy Slade starting off in a dark cave. You have just crashed landed on the alien planet while trying to hunt down a man named Kane, a former mentor turned evil. You will start of with a Knife, Bow, and two machine guns -- all of which can be accessed by using the D-pad. You will always have your Bow and Knife but you can switch out your guns at anytime with whatever other weapon you can find on the levels. You can also mix and match your weapons so, as an example, you can dual wield a shotgun and machine gun.

As you make your way through the dark cave, you keep hearing Dinosaur noises all around you until you finally run into one. Before you can shoot him though, a raptor tackles Turok from behind and Turok gets knocked down as more raptors come out from various places in the cave. The health system is similar to Rainbow Six: Vegas so if you're taking to many hits, just find a place to hide and wait for Turok to regain his health. 

As you progress, you will get separated from Slade and encounter more raptors as well as a couple of enemy soldiers. I played through the demo twice and the first time, the lone soldier lived through the raptor fight because I engaged the Dinosaurs. The second time through, I knew to just hang back and let the raptors do their thing. Shortly before this fight, I found a shotgun that shoots out a flare as a secondary fire. The flare will essentially hypnotize dinosaurs giving the player a chance to shoot the Dinos while they're distracted. You can also shoot a flare onto one raptor which will make other raptors attack the raptor stuck with the flare on its body. The same is applied to soldiers -- shoot them with a flare and the raptors will gun straight for that person. 

You eventually make your way out of the caves and meet up with Slade again in the jungle. More Dinosaurs are shown such as little Dinosaurs that won't attack you unless your provoke them. Of course, I had to provoke them because killing them is extremely hilarious with the Knife. Turok grabs the little Dinos by the neck, raises them up, and slices their throat. Then he just tosses them to the ground.  

A new Dinosaur makes an appearance at this point called a Diloposaurus. It's three times the size of a raptor and three times as hard to take down. None of the predators in the game like each other so you will see plenty of dinosaur fight each other to which you can just hang back and watch the carnage unfold.  

After this fight, you run into another of your comrades, Reese, the sniper of the group. You also come across your downed ship as well as a bunch of enemy soldier checking out the wreckage. Slade and Reese hang back while Turok goes on the hunt to silently take out the soldiers. There are a few guards patrolling the area while one is just standing around oblivious to his surrounding. So of course the most logical thing to do is sneak up behind him and use your knife to slice open his chest! After you take him out, it's a little harder to sneak up on the other guards. Lucky for Turok, there are a couple of raptors near by enjoying some Dino meat. You could just leave the raptors alone and not worry about them. Or do what I did and shoot one of them in the ass with an arrow to get them angry and attack the patrolling soldiers. Of course, the raptors will go after you after they've taken out a few of the soldiers.
A helicopter then descends after you kill a couple of more guys promoting Slade and Reese to come out of hiding and back Turok up. Reese will always make his way to perfect sniping spots while Slade will be right next to Turok in the fire fights. After killing a dozen or so more soldiers, the demo ends.

So far, the visuals are fantastic and the level of detail in the jungle is stunning. The grass will move as you or an enemy makes their way through it, raptors will work in teams to take you out and the enemy soldiers are tough to take down. 

The Turok team did show off some of the later levels at the multiplayer event that I can't wait to try. Mainly, fighting the T-Rex:


This is so going to be an awesome fight. There will be close to about 20 different types of Dinosaurs (if memory serves me right), both predators and herbivorous. There will also be Dinosaurs that the team completely made up in the mix too.

Turok will be out Februrary 5th and you if you pre-order the game, you will get the same demo I just talked about as well as a free T-shirt.  


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Y0j1mb0's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/07/2007 21:24
Y0j1mb0
This game had me at the Bow.
SourGr8pes's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/07/2007 21:25
SourGr8pes
Looks great! I just hope there's no parts where you have to jump across a chasm on tiny little pegs sticking out of the endless abyss.

Or ANY jumping at that matter.
Vitamin Awesome's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/07/2007 21:33
Vitamin Awesome
I got my demo, and the sweet T-shirt. I was expecting to see some mad fog (I've been a fan of Turok since the N64 days) and to my surprise I was greeted with that amazing jungle scenery. Simply going to be the Best. Turok. EVAR. It's even coming out on my birthday.
MechaMonkey's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/07/2007 21:39
MechaMonkey
For the T-Rex fight, I was sort of meh, until it actually ate the player at the end. 11/10
bleep's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/07/2007 21:40
bleep
Looks cool, but I wish it was more representative of the other turok games. This seems like they just took your "run of the mill FPS" and added a bunch of Dinosaurs to it...am I wrong?
zardoz's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/07/2007 21:46
zardoz
Man this looks lame, but I love it.

What was that cheat code form the original N64 game? The one which opened up all the weapons.
imbeta's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/07/2007 21:53
imbeta
Call me a dick if you choose... BUT, how come EVERY single console since several years back, ALWAYS has a TUROK title unveiled?

I'm not hating a=on any of the games, because, frankly - I never played them. BUT... with so many cool comics out there, how come it's always Turok.

Wait, was the Turok comic based on the game or the other way around? I'm not about to wiki this on my own.

Ok, who am I kidding... I probably will now.
ShadowXOR's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/07/2007 22:09
ShadowXOR
From anyone who has played the original Turok or the first sequel released as well as this new one:

Is this game anything like the first two?
ConsFEARacy's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/07/2007 22:12
ConsFEARacy
Got the demo. And the shirt. Played it. Enjoyed it. Will buy it! Will own Hamza in multiplayer when it's released!
Scape's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/07/2007 22:31
Scape
I've never played a Turok game (nor have particularly wanted to), but this game seems to be coming along nicely and might be worth a look.

In a world of many FPS's, its hard for a game to distinguish itself, and these bad ass dinosaurs just might do the trick as long as the gameplay around it is solid.
DarkTravesty's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/07/2007 22:46
DarkTravesty
@ shadow from my experience with the demo i'd say its alot like the first one no where like the second one. just you nature/dinos and the mercs i really really like it.
pizzaface's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/07/2007 23:36
pizzaface
FUCK YEAH DIlLOPOSAURUS

I should play this.
nukka jdav's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/08/2007 00:12
nukka jdav
Dude, I have fucking nightmares about t-rexes busting up my neighborhood eatin shit.

Some reason that video made me all tense and whatnot.

Ugh, but some reason I must play it. It honestly is looking better than I thought it would.

*shivers*
Wubbytoes's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/08/2007 00:59
Wubbytoes
I think it looks kinda cool, but I bet getting eaten like that would be frustrating as shit if it happened more than once.
Necros's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/08/2007 02:04
Necros
Here's hoping it turns out better than the last Turok.
Fading Star's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/08/2007 02:12
Fading Star
Thanks for the article, CTZ.

Once again, dinosaurs AND guns!
Professor Pew's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/08/2007 08:03
Professor Pew
Do want!
King BLeeR's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/08/2007 08:49
King BLeeR
What's with going to an alien planet to find the same dinosaurs we had here? I think it would have been much more interesting to have Dinosaurs on earth. Jeff Goldblum kicks ass.
007's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/08/2007 10:03
007
to tel you the truth, I actually DO want!
Foshi's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/08/2007 13:01
Foshi
Looks like a nice diversion from the standard FPS fare. Having dangerous wildlife wandering around will hopefully add nice new bits of gameplay to try out. Why no PS3 demo?
Holyetheline's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/09/2007 08:43
Holyetheline
I really like Turok 2. That's one of the best games ever as far as FPS' go. After Turok 2 it went downhill... i HOPE this can bring it back up again.
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