Turok

Turok is one of those games that just get worse as it goes on. The run and gun gameplay is pretty solid for the most part, but the level design is just so inconsistent and confusing. It's not a long game but a lot of the levels feel like they last for hours. I also don't like a lot of the weapons you get later on, some of them are just bafflingly underpowered, like the Alien Weapon. Either that or the enemies get spongier as it goes. It's a shame, because I thought that it made a pretty good first impression, but there's just a lot of baffling design here.

Shockingly easy, there were multiple times I had maximum lives - usually I only died because of the platforming sections. The arsenal ranks as a pretty solid B-, it's very "we have Quake 2 at home" despite coming out before Quake 2. The level design is also incredibly bloated, especially in the end game, the last level is easily triple the length of a normal level. It's main strengths are a solid art direction and fun combat in the first two thirds, it's also quite short, clocking in at around 7 or so hours. If you like early 3D shooters this one is a fun time, though it lacks the depth of some of it's contemporaries.

Classic old school game. I used to play this originally on the N64 at launch so it's great to play it again!

Totally recommend this amazing classic remastered, even more in the bundle special sale, glad to have had the opportunity to play it fully and beat it 100% after so many years, continuing to the rest and hope that eventually even more of Turok is available to play and the franchise stays alive for both story lore and multiplayer gameplay on the rest of the games.

A great update to one of the best.

Incredible game, really! Even though I played a lot of it as a kid, I feel like I haven’t even scratched the surface. It features tons of cool weapons that are satisfying to use—my favorites are the shotgun (which is literally a blast), minigun, grenade launcher, and plasma rifle.

The game can get really labyrinthic at times, especially in the catacombs, which can be a nightmare. However, most things aren't too hidden; I managed to find all the keys/chronoscepter parts by myself, except for two where I checked online to avoid excessive backtracking, especially since I had already finished the level multiple times and had no idea where they were.

The last level feels a bit too long for no apparent reason, filled with a lot of corridors. I honestly don’t understand why they made it so lengthy, but it doesn’t detract from the fun I had while playing. The port is excellent—played it on my Steam Deck, and it was a breeze, consistently running at 90 fps.

I give it a 9 out of 10 and strongly recommend it!

Worst map design I've ever seen but it's still pretty fun.

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Excellent port. Well worth the sale price if you want to take a trip down memory lane like myself, or want to see what was setting the standard for console FPS games nearly 30 years ago.

An awesome port. Works so buttery smooth and visuals look much better. Feels great to play it.

I dunno what it is about this old timeless classic of a FPS, but I found it way better, and always better, then Turok 2 / 3

Might just be the atmosphere for the game I guess.
Hope the brand new one coming out plays back to homage this one.

Great re-make

Classic!

Good old turok game. I never managed to play through it in my childhood. Now I've finally managed it and I have to say it's a unique game for its time. I'm already looking forward to the fourth part! It took me a relatively long time to complete the full achievements, a whole 19 hours. But cool game and nice memories!

Yes

i beat this game on hard while i was really drunk on straight everclear, and the everclear really helped me find find all the annoying keyparts i needed. all in all if i drank everclear while playing through this annoying maze game, this might've been a more positive review tbh. i was not at all impressed with the level design nor the enemies,

a lot of the game's content is just "whoa whacky stuff your boys would love to see in a videogame!!!!!!" like a messy hollywood jurassic themepark with robots, time-traveling white people i think, and maybe aliens.
the game puts you in the shoes of a native american, and it makes me feel a little embarassed as a white gamer that for the longest time Turok was the most representation it offered for indigenous americans...

i had this game on the original n64 too. it did not stand out to me as a kid when i played other Rated M games on old consoles, it never offered much for me to hold onto for years and years versus certain games i've been playing all my life still to this day and rave on about. i never even thought the music was cool.

i hated the controls on the n64 as a kid. dude idk how anyone can have nostalgia for a game with THOSE kinds of controls on an awful controller like that.
as an adult, the keyboard+mouse controls are effecient enough for me to clearly see that the game's own handling of weapons and all feels bad. the movement and gunplay feels sloggy, the arrows felt sad and miserable to use, your only melee weapon will fail whatever Rambo knife-swinging power-fantasies you could crave. the least they could've done in the OG game was raise how high your hand would hold the knife in the first-person viewmodel, like you're some kinda slasher killer. of course though it's supposed to save your ammo, but god i wish there was an upgraded melee equivalent in terms of damage.
Half Life: Opposing Force started you off with a Pipe Wrench along with a crowbar reskin Knife, and that Wrench's M2 was one of the best damn thing i ever used in a shooting game.
idk. QUAKE 1 has better gunplay and movement and superior level design & god-tier music in comparison (that itself was made by Trent Reznor of my favorite band Nine Inch Nails)

i think i'd sooner play daikatana if i want to bargain for an annoying outdated gameplay experience that marked some milestone in first-person gaming. genuinely i kinda wish i played daikatana instead. that game also features Medusa! sorry for spoilers but Steam has it on its steam page for Daikatana, but if you go look you will literally see a snake-faced Medusa with boobies. hm... maybe John Romero is one of those elusive "suspiciously wealthy furries"? maybe john romero meant making you into his pet with that ad for the game that said "JOHN ROMERO'S ABOUT TO MAKE YOU HIS BITCH." because bitch also means female dog... ...... im gonna see if i can email john romero and ask if furries inspired daikatana's Medusa design.

When I review Daikatana, I will feature a dedicated section explaining why the actual Medusa of Greek Mythology literally did nothing wrong, as I will explain the whole reason why the gods unfairly cursed her as a gorgon. For the record, I support worship of Medusa.

Anyway, not to get too off topic, i think if there's any N64 game a studio like Nightdive should've ported, they should've ported HYBRID HEAVEN instead. I just don't like Turok and there's not a lot to the actual game itself in terms of substance, so it's constantly riddled with labyrinthine level design that itself makes you treasure-hunt for stupid keys you need to FINALLY get to the end of the game. Games like this were specifically designed to sell strategy guides & magazines to people because it purposefully is designed in such a way that you'd want to google everything for it if you could, but people back then would likely have magazines they were subscribed to anyway. AWFUL level design with tedious enemies and weapons that don't feel good to fire.

good port. If the original n64 game's frame rate, fov, and view distance bothered you, this solves it all.

My favorite part is when the indian says "I am the Turok" and begins Turoking everybody.

Now for real, it is a product of its time with SEVERAL things that are outdated. Originally with no crosshair, unable to change type of ammo at will, lack of sound variety and most importantly; no intuitive secret hiding and collectaton mechanics.

If you dont keep your eyes truly open you'll have to repeat a level to pick everything needed to continue your adventure. Which directly translates to walk ALL OVER AGAIN with 0 variety and less enemies which directly translates to... well, literally walk all over again. No fun.

Despite that the game has been updated and received an improvements some weeks ago which fixes the ammo selection problem and the crosshair existence. Those are small details, but it is a way of the developers to tell us "we are aware on this stuff despite the years"

So yeah.

The greatest, and only good Turok game. The new Turok is gonna be garbage and any sequels afterwards are garbage. THIS is Turok. Turok 2 is garbage.

What a banger of a soundtrack - especially the Ancient City.

if you want a good fast paced old school shooter this is the game for you. takes me back to the N64 days.

In Turok you play as Turok and he fights dinosaur, man, T-rex and Car.

A classic when i was a kid love this game!

I'd played Turok 2 before the first game back on the Nintendo 64 and it took me until the remaster to play the original. I remember getting a few levels in before I got lost in one of the levels and eventually got caught up in another game lol but lately I decided it was finally time to get through Tal'Set's adventure, and you know what? It may not be as great as Turok 2, but it's still pretty fun.

Turok is a character with a long history, having changed hands multiple times to the point we have a new Turok game on the horizon after nearly two decades. For the original games, the premise is essentially: Turok is a mantle passed down in a lineage of Native Americans, their sacred duty being to safeguard the Lost Lands, a parallel dimension where time has no meaning and things from all across space and time have been pulled from across the universe into one, crazy mishmash. Dinosaurs, cyborgs and aliens all rub shoulders with one another and I love it. For his original outing, Turok (this particular one being Tal'Set) must stop a cyborg general named the Campaigner from gathering the pieces of a powerful weapon called the Chronoscepter that he wishes to use to punch through the barrier separating the Lost Lands from our world, allowing him to conquer the universe.

Crazy awesome setting aside, the main draw of Turok is easily it's crazy awesome arsenal. While I'd say the sequel greatly improved on all the aspects of the original, Turok: Dinosaur Hunter still has a wonderful array of weaponry, ranging from the conventional to the spectacular. Alongside a knife, your trusty Tek Bow, shotguns and an assault rifle you'll also find a Pulse Rifle, Minigun, Grenade Launcher, Rocket Launcher and even a Fusion Cannon that functions as a mini-nuke! (that Tal'Set is immune to because being Turok makes you awesome like that)

The main aspect I think a lot of people will struggle with is the levels. There are eight levels and Turok must collect several keys in one level to progress to other levels. In addition, Turok can also find the pieces of the Chronoscepter before the Campaigner and assemble it to use himself against the evil general. The problem is that the level layout can get a little confusing, not helped by the fact that mobile enemies will respawn (enemies scripted to remain stationary will stay dead) which, even with a Doom-style automap, you can lose your way pretty easily and not know how to progress. Don't be afraid to consult a guide if you have to lol

While it's called 'Dinosaur Hunter', enemy variety is pretty broad and increases as you progress each level. A good number of them are human or human variants like the 'demons' or cyborgs (who are reskinned, tougher humans essentially), but you can also get the gorilla-like Purr-lin, beetles, dragonflies, Leapers (exactly what they sound like), alien soldiers, CYBORG DINOSAURS and (much later) Big Murder Robots (TM). Respawning issue aside (which can be fixed with a mod on the workshop), the combat flow is quite fun. Turok didn't skip leg day so he runs pretty quick, allowing for some great run and gun action.

Turok: Dinosaur Hunter also benefits from a level editor and Steam Workshop support, meaning you can craft and enjoy completely new adventures in the Lost Lands (or beyond). I do wish (and hope) that Turok 2 will receive a similar feature in the future, but given this game got an update like a decade after the remaster released, I'm optimistic! The wonderful folks at Nightdive even restored cut Brachiosaurus that walk around in the background of one of the levels. Beautiful.

It may be somewhat dated, the levels can get a little confusing and Turok 2 is a huge improvement, but I would still recommend Turok: Dinosaur Hunter. It has a real 'rumble in the jungle' vibe it's successor ironically lacks, and whereas Turok 2 has themed levels with appropriate enemies for the environ, the original features a wonderful hodgepodge of enemies from across time and space all in one place and all dedicated to killing you...when they're not infighting. Yep, you can do that, just like Doom lol

love it

one of the best 90s shooters for me, very fun... i hate that is underrated, this is a very good game, one of the best boomer shooters i ever played, i like the level design and platforming, and the gunplay is very creative too, like it feels really good and unique... i like this game, 8,5/10

Just buy it if you liked it on N64, DUH!!!!!

What A Game! NightDive have really done something very special here with Turok!

This remaster has all the charm and feel of the heavily fogged and Anti-Aliased N64 version from way back in 1997!
But ND have made it very playable on modern PC's which is done so very well...they have even left in the original music and sounds.
You get loads of new options with the latest update and can tweek everything to suit your play-style and with the new Kex 4 engine upgrade it is buttery smooth even at 120fps no matter what set up you have!

To me this is an improvement on the N64 version and how often can you say that about any N64 game!
I have Turok 2 ready to go (which is an even better game than the first with the weapon CEREBRAL BORE) but i'm waiting for ND to sprinkle that magic update juice all over it too, before I start it. Well impressed! This is old skool gaming at its best.

shoot dinosaur then shoot dinosaur, 10/10

It's astounding how well this game holds up. It just got a big patch too, so you can disable all of the different head bob animations to make the thing playable.

TUROK 1 = excellent, 10/10, finished offline.

Outstanding job by Nigthdive Studios, one of their best, totally updated, added to, zero blinding fog, QOLs, keyboard mapping, bobbing level select, etc, etc, the works.

A remaster meant another gameplay for me, so good.

They even added a full roster of cheats in a cheat menu, do anything you want, full freedom.
Complete explaining in a Steam forum/Discussions post.

- NOTES:
- Also fantastic: Turok 2 !!
Rather unassuming simple start and graphics, but it turns into a complex, attention grabbing game, a joy to complete for me. Had to use a walkthrough to get so many specials, though, worthwhile.

- ( Turok 3 -Three-: Beware, DON'T play, terribly awful original game.
Forget the Turok character, dies in the badly made cutscene before the game begins.
Then choose your pitiful and risible hero, girl Danielle or youngster Joseph.
N64 levels of bare, empty locations.)

Wow, the new version of the game is absolutely flawless. All issues the previous build had are gone and it now runs, plays and sounds like never before. What an amazing effort, you guys! Well done.

It's good, don't think about it too much.

You're the Son of Stone, you're TUROK!

As Native American Tal'Setin an alternate dimension where dinosaurs have survived and technology from our world as well as other worlds in the universe gathers, it is up to the player to stop the Campaigner before he takes control of the universe. Contrary to the origins, the character's name is not Turok, but the title of Guardian of the Lost Land. With a bow and arrow, a knife and an arsenal of conventional as well as sci-fi and extraterrestrial weapons, it is up to you to find the Chronocepter and dissuade the campaigner from his plan. Exploration as well as skill is required in the fairly open levels, because it plays very quickly like a so-called boomer shooter. The environments look groundbreaking for the time, but you should keep in mind that the graphics at the time were ported to the new KEX engine, so you can occasionally see a few abysses that you shouldn't have seen back then. Nevertheless, the game is incredibly fun and invites you to explore with its jungle atmosphere. Recently, Nightdive added a few more dinosaurs in an update that existed in the 1996 beta but didn't make it into the final game. A must for dinosaurs and shooter fans, which doesn't have to hide behind genre greats like Quake, Duke Nukem and Doom.

muito bom

If you like Dinosaurs you'll like this

This game is awesome! I remember playing this a lot on N64 back when I was a teen, but I had to cheat to beat it. With the remaster I was able to beat it 100% without cheats. But it is always fun to have unlimited ammo and unload with your favourite weapons!

El mejor Turok de la trilogía original. Otro excelente remaster de Nightdive. La última actualización es perfecta y arregla muchas cosas del release original. De los mejores shooters de los 90s

one of the best remasters ever

great remaster

This game is kind of repetitive & boring, its one of those games that you play once and never touch it again and I hate responding enemies. If you want to play an old school boomer shooter, you're better off playing Doom or Quake.

Decently fun and fast phased, but prepare for scouring every map for all the keys to unlock the further stages. Checking the map often usually is enough to notice any 'hidden' side paths, though.

I'd recommend Turok 2 over this, it leans more into the dinosaur theme and the shooting is way more satisfying. In this one you are fighting humans too much for my liking, the enemy cast is way more fun in the second game.

I played Turok on the N64 back in the '90s and could never figure out how to get past the second level. Revisiting the remaster by Nightdive Studios almost 20 years later, I still had to follow a guide to navigate most of the puzzles and labyrinthine levels. I’m not a big fan of the level design—especially early on—but I did notice that by the final level, the game really picks up into a DOOM-like state, where fast-paced run-and-gun action takes over instead of tedious searching for hidden paths.

The sound design is fantastic. The classic ""I AM TUROK"" when earning an extra life, the distant dinosaur roars, and the tribal drums and bells all work together to create the perfect atmosphere for a dinosaur-hunting adventure. The gun designs are another highlight—I found myself using the plasma rifle and minigun whenever I had ammo. However, weapon switching was a major issue; no matter how much I tried, I could never reliably cycle to the right gun using my mouse wheel or buttons, which became frustrating in combat.

One thing that caught me off guard was the ending. Just when I thought I had reached the final boss, the game threw a curveball at me—so at least it had a strong (if wildly bizarre) conclusion to its insanely confusing space dinosaur pirate plot.

yeah its pretty good

I've loved this game since it first hit on N64. it's even better with standardized controller configurations.

its a good and fun game you should play

I AM TUROK!

Fun if you're into remastered N64 games. A lot of platforming, even more collectables, and a dash of silly dinosaur noises.

A normal day for a Native American warrior.

dinsor

I had a good childhood because I grew up with boomer shooters like this one on the N64