Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion Remastered

10/10 Game Fingers Crossed for a Remasterd Turok Evolution

This game puts the ok in Turok. It puts the bore in cerebral bore. Have people made those jokes, yet? It's alright. I never played this one as a kid so I have no nostalgia for it. I also can't really judge it as a remaster since I have no frame of reference. What I can say is if you told me this was just an unfinished N64 game that was remastered, I'd believe that. Maybe that would make more sense. The scaffolding is there. You can see a vague shape that resembles a Turok game. But it's just not there yet. It's so undercooked. It's the kind of game I'd expect to see on an episode of "What Happened?" I don't know anything about this game's development but there's no way it's the same team as Turok 2, right? The movement and combat and animations are so stiff. It's like everything is on right angles. Feels slower. The weapons sounds and hits feels so empty, like there's no feedback. The weapons here are weak, man. A cardinal sin for a Turok game. There's a cool dismemberment system here but without the impressively fluid animations from Turok 2, it comes off as quaint and dated. This game feels older than Turok 1 in some ways. The environments look okay, for what's there, but they're so big and empty. This game takes place in a liminal space. The life force pickup noise sounds like an AIM notification. A lot of the game feels like the dev team just played Half Life the day before. Having two characters was a neat little trick but it amounts to virtually no difference in the game. Couple weapon variations and an incredibly tiny number of different paths. I mean, look, how do I rate this game? As a game or a remaster? Well, as a game it's pretty lame. Knowing that this is what came after Turok 2 is depressing. It's like seeing that long lost high school friend. You know, the good looking one that everybody liked, everyone knew. You see them on some holiday weekend when you're visiting your parents 20 years later. Maybe at a gas station or someplace. They're so excited to see you and you have to do everything you can to hide your shock, your dismay. What happened to them? They look terrible. They're working where?...You report back to your friends. "Bro, you'll never guess who I saw. Turok..." But, my undying love for Nightdive and everything they do and stand for obligates me to recommend the game. It looks good, really crisp and clean, it runs. I mean, if this is what the final result is then I can only imagine how bad it was on an N64. If you're just a die hard Turok fan, go ahead and get it. If you love Nightdive, get it. If you're looking to see why people love Turok, get Turok 1 and 2. Just wait for a sale.

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.

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.

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.

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.

You remastered this but not Turok Evolution?

This is not good. I wouldn't even recommend it on sale; a poor conclusion to the Turok trilogy. The original asking price is absurd, but even on sale I would steer clear unless you're absolutely positively determined to experience all 3 games.

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.

fun but quite short