Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion Remastered

I sort of liked it, but you really should have a fondness for weird, obscure 6/10 shooters from the early 2000s. Otherwise, the safe bet is to stay away. This is not a must-play buried classic. This is not even a "we have Half-Life at home" situation - this is "we have Blue Shift at home." In the beginning, this game tries to at least be somewhat interesting, then it becomes more amateurish with each passing level, with baby's first shooter mistakes and everything. And then, by the end, they give up so completely that the final boss is literally in an arena with infinite ammo and healing items. About 2 hours of my playtime were idle, by the way. This game has 5 short levels and is over before you know it. Honestly, remaster this good deserves a far better game. Buy it at 80% off for research purposes.

Short but fun. A nice variety of weapons and locations. It is much more linear than previous Turok games, which I like. No more replaying the same levels over and over. Two playable characters to pick from. I like playing as Danielle. Too bad the story never got a direct sequel.

Well, it's decent but apart from being nice to finally play a N64 exclusive title on PC, i really don't see anything else that makes it better than the previous games.

The only positive thing about this game I can say is it makes me glad that gaming has evolved past...this. Yes, it's dated, but other games from this era weren't so dang hokey. The controls are awful, the enemies are laughably bad, most of them just stand still and shoot. Everything dies from a single arrow. There's a soundbyte that play literally throughout my entire playtime, every 60 seconds or so there's a "HIYA HIYAAAAAAHI-YAA!" going off in the background. The first boss didn't even touch me and all i did was walk in a circle. This is bad. This is so, so bad, and not even in an amusing way. The only reason I have it is because it was part of a dinosaur humble bundle, and there wasn't even a single dinosaur in my time playing (I know I only played for ~90 minutes, but I've always known Turok to be a fps series with dinosaurs and SOME humanoids. This one? It's aliens that spit undodgeable acid at you & humans that shoot dodgeable bullets. Unless you played the original and want some nostalgia, I can't understand anyone enjoying this.

You remastered this but not Turok Evolution?

I'll say what pretty much every other negative review says about this game, Nightdive did a good job at remastering this game, improved a couple flaws with it but that pretty much ends there, the game itself is crap. If you had no knowledge of the Turok series and were to play this game as your first Turok before all the others it may not look that bad and just seem like a generic first person shooter, but compared to Turok 1 and 2 this is a total downgrade in almost every way, the gameplay, combat, environment and story feel in the first 2 games are just not here anymore. The combat in this game is already cheap and awful, the enemies contantly cheap shot you before you can even see them, certain enemies respawn endlessly and certain attacks from enemies take a third of your health even on the easiest difficulty and at the same time enemies are extremely weak and can be killed in 1 or 2 shots. In Turok 2 the combat could get frustrating at times but it still felt so satisfying when you kill them, it actually feels like you really destroy them in such creative gruesome way, close up shots from a powerful weapon like the shotgun would blast off heads and limbs, each enemy had these cool death animations for each way they die, those screams from them as they choke on their own blood, they way the raptors flop and walk around for a second after having their heads blown off, they way the dinosoids split in half and flop around like a fish after being blown up, they way you can blast a hole through a purr-linns chest like that scene in fortress, IT'S FREAKING AWESOME, in Turok 3 all that has been taken away, enemies only have one boring death animation no matter how you kill them, they feel so brittle like they're made of rice cakes, the dismemberment system is so bland, one shot in the hand with an arrow and their whole arm pops off like it's a water balloon and one shotgun blast from 100 feet away takes off multiple limbs and a head at once and they just go "ow" and drop dead, it's so unsatisfying compared to Turok 2, there I felt like I really tear them apart when gunning them down, here it feel like I'm shooting balloon animals.

Поздний N64-шутер, который пришел на вечеринку динозавров уже после Half-Life и решил срочно стать взрослее, мрачнее и линейнее. Джунгли еще пахнут Turok, но игра уже тащит хоррор, городские уровни, двух героев, катастрофу, монстров и ощущение, что серия пытается вылезти из доисторического аттракциона в нормальный сюжетный FPS. Nightdive отмыла этот старый картридж до 4K, прикрутила свет, модели и управление, но не стала делать вид, что внутри спрятан шедевр. Это все еще странный, короткий, местами кривой N64-боевик с хорошим темпом и мутантским лицом. Не рaзъеб на века, но после System Shock 2 ощущается как отпуск: никто не читает тебе лекцию, обезьяны не стреляют мозгом, а проблемы решаются старым честным способом — в e6ало из пушки.

I'm still not quite sure how the story fits in as a prequel to Elder Scrolls: Oblivion but I prefer this one since it has guns and dinosaurs.