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Related: Revisiting DuckTales Remastered. Now that technical issues are no longer holding Turok 2 back, I can decide on whether the game is fun based on its design and gameplay. The first level was well designed, with secrets to find and multiple pathways, without feeling overly big or confusing to navigate. The game comes with a wireframe map -- which isn't very good -- but you don't truly need to make use of it. The levels are designed well enough that landmarks are easily identified and players quickly managed to learn the lay of the land.

And if that's not enough, the remastered version of the game gives you waypoints for you to see when you're near something important. The biggest surprise, however, is how much I came to enjoy an aspect I hadn't considered before -- the use of the game's guns.

Now that they no longer tank the game's performance, I can appreciate the guns within the game. Turok 2 has some incredible guns, with creative designs and fantastical effects. While there are plenty of noteworthy parts of the remaster, the weapons are reason alone to give this edition a chance.

Sometimes the games you think are a waste of time to remaster are the ones that can benefit the most from it. No one was demanding a Turok Remastered Edition. Most were content with leaving the series in the past and moving on to something else. However, Turok 2 is a title you should give some time to -- especially if you're a fan of late 90s shooters such as Unreal and Half-Life. This remaster gives a new lease on this game's life and it is more enjoyable than you may think.

The environments we drooled over at Acclaim's booth were very rich, featuring incredible graphical effects. The level had a certain Duke Nukem quality to it, mainly due to the scripted events which go on around you. Wars rage, buildings explode, and people scream in pain as you run around trying to get the better of the new advanced Al-driven bad guys.

Another incredible feature is the number of weapons. You have a huge variety of weapons to blow the beasts apart with. There are 23 weapons total, including a minelayer, a flamethrower and a load of others.

You have to see the weapons to really appreciate their awesome effects. Also look for improved enemy Al and neat-o death sequences. The biggest and most-welcome addition to Turok are the four-player split-screen Multiplayer Modes. You'll be able to pick from an array of characters like Golden Eye and duke it out in Turok environments in team and every-man-for-himself modes.

Three issues ago, Quartermann got the exclusive scoop on Acclaim's next game in the mega-popular Turok franchise, Turok: Rage Wars formerly Turok: Bloodlust. Here are the first screens of it in action. As Qmann previously reported, Rage Wars due out this November will concentrate on the multiplayer side of things. The game will have 17 playable characters, 36 deathmatch maps and loads of new items and weapons. Some of the things you'll find include magnets which are used to change the trajectory of gunfire and war hammers with grenades on the ends of them which explode on contact There's an old saying, "Size is everything.

Which is correct? And why is tliis usually tackle-related question Jangling from the front of a game review? You'll see. After all the waiting, and all the hype, and all the delays, the finished version of Turok 2: Seeds Of Evil is finally here.

It's got hi-res graphics if you've got an Expansion Pak plugged in. It's got a multiplayer game which other 'reviews' strangely failed to discuss in any detail. It's gotr'more blood, gore and giblets than the Smithfield Market's annual screening of Cannibal Holocaust.

But has it got what it takes? Although it might have had polygon enemies instead of flat sprites, it wasn't really any better than Doom.

If anything, Doom had the edge in terms of level design and action, already being one of the world's most popular and playable games.

So what about Turok 2? Have the lessons been learned? One of the ironic things about Turok 2 is that the first level, where players get their initial exposure to the game, looks rather dull even compared to older games like Goldeneye , and definitely up against its own later levels.

Dropping into the Port of Adia for the first time, if you haven't been exposiMto shots of the later levels and if you haven'Lwhy haven't you been reading the magazine recently? Stone walls. There are no such problems with the evil creatures that inhabit the game. Although it's a surprisingly long time before Turok actually runs into any bad guys, you won't be disappointed.

The enemies are big, very detailed, brilliantly animated and die in the most gloriously gruesome ways imaginable. Obviously you can-do much with a mere bow dixi arrow or pokey little pistol, but once the bigger weapons fall into your hands the carnage doesn't stop until you run out of ammo Blam! Head blown clean off! Arm severed! Entire upper torso blasted into chunky salsa! Brain matter forcefully extracted and splashed over the wall! This is huge fun at first; clever use of 2-D sprites gives the spouting blood an unsettlingly realistic look, and hitting a toothy monstrosity with a sufficiently powerful weapon actually plasters their vital fluids over the wall behind them.

After a bit, though, you realise that there are only a few basic animations -standard death, lose an arm, lose the head, blown in half, and so on. Once you realise that you're going to see the same thing every time, the appeal of the OTT gore soon wears off.

Yes, it is possible to get bored of exploding heads. Hard to believe, but true. Puzzle-solving in Turok 2 hasn't realty moved on since the days of Doom. The process goes as follows; find switch, go through newly-opened door, kill all monsters, find switch, go through newly opened door Although there are special items to uncover and mission objectives to complete on each level rescue prisoners, destroy armouries, that kind of thing the relatively linear level structure makes it pretty hard not to complete them.

You don't play Turok 2 for its mind-bending puzzles, though, do you? Killing bad guys is what it's all about. The problem on some levels is that you still frequently have to backtrack through previously-explored sections to fulfil the mission objectives.

The superb visuals don't compensate for the fact that you spend an awful lot of time wandering through identical corridors and tunnels, which very quickly becomes repetitive. Goldeneye's levels were, on the whole, fairly small, but they were so well-designed that you didn't really notice. Every section had a purpose. In Turok 2, on the other hand, the levels are huge, but most of the space is just that - space. More often than not, opening up a new section doesn't reveal some interesting structure or complex arena, but just miles of corridors that lead to another switch the last level, Primagen's ship, is a particularly bad offender.

Along the way, monsters jump out, you kill them and move on. Not very inspiring. One of the most heinous flaws of the first Turok is back - the need to make pixel-perfect jumps over huge gaps, which in a game where you can't see your own feet is always a tad difficult.

The problem isn't nearly as bad here as in the original game, as there are only a few places where a bad jump sends. Turok plunging to his doom, but having to skip up a series of platforms only to skid off the top one and drop to the bottom again stops being fun before you even hit the ground. After all the aforementioned waiting and hype, Turok 2: Seeds Of Evil has - as a one-player game - turned out to be good, but not the world-shaker everyone was expecting.

While the hi-res visuals prove that the N64 still has a lot to offer if pushed hard enough, the gameplay underneath it is all is curiously shallow. Too much time is spent strolling through tunnels and corridors in order to reach the next gaggle of enemies, who are then despatched in a quick flurry of brainless shooting. There isn't much in the way of exploration, because Turok is all but shoved in the direction of the next teleport.

The real shame is the lack of imagination. All the creatures look great, but they don't really do anything surprising-they just see you and either start shooting or charge.

The occasional sideways roll or dodge behind a boulder apart, there isn't the slightest hint of intelligence between the lot of them.

Even the bosses, which are stunning to watch, just follow familiar old patterns. Find the first weak spot, pick it off, find the next " one and so on until it screams its last. What saves Turok 2 is the multiplayer game, which is faster and smoother than Goldeneye, and has tighter levels that are better suited to pure insane gunplay. It's the nearest thing you'll get to Quake pfiti the N64 - well, at least until Quake 2 itself arrives.

With the smaller deathmatch levels, you are - especially with four players - never more than a corner away from running into somebody with a very large gun. This makes things a lot more frantic, and the emphasis on the vertical axis - several of the deathmatch arenas are multilevel extravaganzas, with plenty of platforms for sniping - means that you can be attacked from almost any angle.

Some arenas even have underwater sections, where combat is wrought with harpoon guns and torpedoes, that really turn things on their head! The only disappointing thing about Turok 2's deathmatch is the lack of options, which in Goldeneye allowed players to create the perfect custom killing zone.

All Turok 2 offers is a weapons screen where the appearance or otherwise of particular bits of hardware can be set - fed up of being whacked in the back of the head by the Cerebral Bore? Switch it off! The equivalent of the Licence To Kill mode would have been fun, though to be fair this can be simulated if players concentrate on getting instantly-lethal head shots. The actual characters are nondescript as well - hunting some generic dinosaur bloke isn't nearly as engaging as chasing down Oddjob.

Piffling little quibbles like these don't prevent Turok 2's deathmatch from being fantastic, and good enough reason to buy the game on its own.

Is it better than Goldeneye'! Arguments raged over this point for quite some time. Ultimately, it's probably as good - the characters don't have the instant recognition value of Goldeneye, but the speed and furious nature of combat compensate, and the sheer glorious sadism of Frag Tag is what videogames are all about! In the case of Turok 2, size definitely isn't everything. The sprawl of the levels makes getting around a long-winded business, and most of the time you know that the only thing at the end of it will be another switch or a teleport.

What's missing from Turok 2 is something that Goldeneye had by the bucketful - involvement. Rare's game had all kinds of different objectives, hidden secrets, little quirks and opportunities to try alternate ways to complete the missions. Turok 2? Kill enemies, find switches, reach teleport. It's Doom, basically - a glorious-looking update of Doom, but Doom nevertheless.

Fortunately, the deathmatch game compensates - if you can get three friends around they won't want to leave, and at the very least the one-player game offers stunning eye candy and a lot of challenge. Besides, at the price, you can't go wrong. It's just a shame that the fabulous advances in visuals and audio weren't accompanied by similar strides in gameplay. For you Turok fans out there, get ready for the sequel due out sometime in August. Visually, we have nothing to work off of except a good number of conceptual sketches, renders and level designs.

Expect a whole new cast of bad muthas to shoot holes through we've seen no dinos so far , and plenty of interesting environments to explore. We'll keep you up to speed as we get more info on Turok 2. Big, brash and very violent. But what I really like is that you can't just run around shooting everything in sight and expect to get away with it.

Turok's just as much about stealth and strategy as it is spilling monsters' brains over the floor although there's quite a bit of that, too. Because it's the only game in the world where you can blow a hole the size of a football in a giant green monster's stomach, and slice teeny weeny dinosaurs into chipolatas with a razor-sharp claw.

I'm still trying to find the cheat to make the kids killable though. Pee-yoo, wooor! Turok 2: Seeds of Evil screenshots:. Size: Related By Tags Games: Breakwaters.

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