Turok Remastered

 PC
User Score
7.6

Generally favorable reviews- based on 36 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 23 out of 36
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 36
  3. Negative: 4 out of 36

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  1. Unseenteeth
    Jan 8, 2016
    10
    Looks like there are a few filthy casuals down voting this masterpiece, so I guess I should step in and level the playing field. This is the Turok you remember from your N64 days. It is brutally hard, insanely difficult, and optimized for PC. What exactly were you expecting? No It's not a full high definition 'remaster' , all of the old graphics are intact. If that bothers you ,Looks like there are a few filthy casuals down voting this masterpiece, so I guess I should step in and level the playing field. This is the Turok you remember from your N64 days. It is brutally hard, insanely difficult, and optimized for PC. What exactly were you expecting? No It's not a full high definition 'remaster' , all of the old graphics are intact. If that bothers you , play any of the dozens of other modern shooter games with fancy graphics. 10/10… Expand
  2. vgmkyle
    Jan 8, 2016
    5
    I played the game in the 90s, and what sucked back then certainly is a lot worse now. This game looks dreadful, it's not a great remake of a great game. It will still give you a headache just because how the game is stylized. And to top it of, the game is so challenging for how bad it is. Don't pay money for this.
  3. Youmustdienow
    Dec 22, 2015
    8
    Holds up well and the enhanced features go a long way to revitalize this classic. This game will make you miss Turok and 3D fps adventure games.This is worth getting for a number of reasons. This was one of the first evolutions to the fps genre. Before Turok, Doom's 3D Gauntlet style was the format the industry borrowed from. Turok added a more open ended adventure aspect to the genre muchHolds up well and the enhanced features go a long way to revitalize this classic. This game will make you miss Turok and 3D fps adventure games.This is worth getting for a number of reasons. This was one of the first evolutions to the fps genre. Before Turok, Doom's 3D Gauntlet style was the format the industry borrowed from. Turok added a more open ended adventure aspect to the genre much like Metroid and was the first console shooter to have fully 3d rendered models and worlds.

    The old visual style is still very appealing if you are not comparing it to today's hardware. It would be nice to see indy devs go with this updated hd n64 look.

    The controls here are better than modern games in many ways. The modern fps has simulated running, and reload animations. IMO Turok's auto run feature makes it more fun to explore large environments. It shows where modern design has gone wrong. If I wanted a simulation shooter I would shoot for absolute realism, and not half step it.This isn't the case with Turok, it is pure fantasy.

    This game should be viewed as a lesson for modern designers. Take most of what this game has to offer, streamline it a bit more, show the key locations on the map, reduce enemy respawns, add co-op, and give it a hardware makeover.

    personal notes--
    There is really not much dated matterial here, just under used. Dated is really simplistic scripted events that give less interactivity, which equals to a lesser experience. Holding in a run button was outdated back in the Resident Evil days, yet to be hip, they think a wacky arcade shooter needs real world simulation feedback to engage players. Modern games are fun, but misguided.    … Expand
  4. SeanGamerDays
    Jan 7, 2016
    8
    Turok was alright. I haven't played it in 16 years, before they remaster it, and makin something awesome, than Nintendo's 64.

    It's a full controller support, and you can play it with almost any supported controllers.

    The flaws was, the graphics was old-school s--t, but it was fine...
  5. davidcartoons
    Dec 26, 2015
    9
    este juego ya de por si es genial, pero si me tengo que enfocar en decir como lo remasterizaron, diria que con los pies, el juego tiene los graficos iguales que en la version original, una pena siendo que me gustaria ver como turok tuviera unos graficos renovados, pero igual, es recomendable para el que no jugo al turok original o simplemente al que quiere volver a jugar a turok.
  6. nyeven
    Nov 25, 2018
    8
    I played Turok 2 around 16 years ago when I was a little kid. A week ago I've seen both Turok and Turok 2 on sale on Steam and I bought it out of nostalgia.

    Turok 1 is fun but also annoying at times. For example, there are blue portals which randomly spawn from time to time which lead you to a secret level / mini game which if you beat you get a power-up, extra health, new weapon, etc.    I played Turok 2 around 16 years ago when I was a little kid. A week ago I've seen both Turok and Turok 2 on sale on Steam and I bought it out of nostalgia.

    Turok 1 is fun but also annoying at times. For example, there are blue portals which randomly spawn from time to time which lead you to a secret level / mini game which if you beat you get a power-up, extra health, new weapon, etc.

    The mini games are fine, but the problem is that the portals don't go away after you beat all the mini games. There are around 2 mini games per level, and if you beat both of them, the portals will still keep spawning, but if you enter the portal you will get teleported to an already beaten mini game... It's not game breaking, but it's very annoying.

    The other thing that was annoying was that you a maximum number of lives exist. You can have a maximum of 9 lives and 99 triangles collected. Which means that you can't collect more triangles if you have the previous mentioned number of lives and triangles. I mean... why? ... I'm an achievement whore / collector and I love to everything that I can in the game, and this game wouldn't let me collect everything. Really annoying.

    Other than that, my only complaint is that the first 60% of the game is very good, while the last 40% is amazing and really fun. I mean, the first boss appears very late, at around 60% of the game and everything after the first boss is very fun and challenging, while before that it's kind of good, but not really amazing.

    Also, the story is non existent which is too bad. I wish there were at least some written texts just to give some context to your actions.

    All in all, it was a really good game, it was fun, the graphic's aesthetics were cool, killing cybernetic dinosaurs is hell of a fun, but the game is not worth the $8 that I paid for it.    … Expand
  7. Captain_Faramir
    Apr 1, 2017
    8
    8.5 - Not sure why the review scores are so low, but I found it very enjoyable, just upgraded things like render distance and frame rate from the original. You can't really go wrong with this game.
  8. Tuvok
    Nov 30, 2020
    10
    This was the first N64 game I played with my buddy who rented it from a video store lol this feels like a perfect remake for me, but it's just as difficult as i remember!

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67

Mixed or average reviews - based on 22 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 15 out of 22
  3. Negative: 1 out of 22
  1. CD-Action
    Mar 4, 2016
    40
    In every possible aspect Turok aged as gracefully as Donatella Versace and I honestly don’t see much sense in digging it out. [02/2016, p.43]
  2. Digitally Downloaded
    Feb 8, 2016
    70
    It’s fast paced arcade shooter style is a ton of fun, and considering the types of leaps and bounds it brought to the FPS genre, it’s no wonder that it managed to succeed all those years ago.
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  3. CGMagazine
    Feb 2, 2016
    60
    I like Turok; but I like it as an N64 game where I can make excuses for its shortcomings based on its platform—in a vacuum where I can’t compare it to other, truly great shooters.
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