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Turok Evolution. Looks great doesn't it? But what has changed?
Obviously the graphics are nicer, it has to expected on a new console. Also, the enemies look set to be bigger, and quite possibly better than previous installments. Obviously there will be new weapons to aid in your quest to make dinosaurs extinct for good, but many of these will be variations on old FPS classics.
And we also have the idea that Turok is returning to its roots. Gone will be the sci-fi stylings, and the luscious jungle environments are back.
But where is the evolution of gameplay? The game looks set to improve in terms of graphics, scale, environmets, but have we heard any news of groundbreaking new gameplay innovations? No. Apparently this time around you have more opportunity to use stealth tactics, creeping around the foliage unseen and unheard and picking off enemies in the distance with sniper modes. Or using your silent weaponry, such as the bow, club and axe to take care of an enemy without alerting others. But these are hardly new innovations are they? Goldeneye and Perfect Dark used stealth to an extent, countless realistic FPS on the PC such as the Rainbow Six series use staelth, and the Theif series has been called a Stealth 'em up, so using stealth in first person shooters is hardly a new idea.
So Turok Evolution. What has evolved? Most of the evolution seems superficial. The gameplay elements are remaining essentially the same, albeit with a mild twist. By no means will this make it a bad game, I am just hoping that there will be a FPS on the GameCube that, if not revolutionises the genre, at least does evolve the gameplay somewhat.
Obviously the graphics are nicer, it has to expected on a new console. Also, the enemies look set to be bigger, and quite possibly better than previous installments. Obviously there will be new weapons to aid in your quest to make dinosaurs extinct for good, but many of these will be variations on old FPS classics.
And we also have the idea that Turok is returning to its roots. Gone will be the sci-fi stylings, and the luscious jungle environments are back.
But where is the evolution of gameplay? The game looks set to improve in terms of graphics, scale, environmets, but have we heard any news of groundbreaking new gameplay innovations? No. Apparently this time around you have more opportunity to use stealth tactics, creeping around the foliage unseen and unheard and picking off enemies in the distance with sniper modes. Or using your silent weaponry, such as the bow, club and axe to take care of an enemy without alerting others. But these are hardly new innovations are they? Goldeneye and Perfect Dark used stealth to an extent, countless realistic FPS on the PC such as the Rainbow Six series use staelth, and the Theif series has been called a Stealth 'em up, so using stealth in first person shooters is hardly a new idea.
So Turok Evolution. What has evolved? Most of the evolution seems superficial. The gameplay elements are remaining essentially the same, albeit with a mild twist. By no means will this make it a bad game, I am just hoping that there will be a FPS on the GameCube that, if not revolutionises the genre, at least does evolve the gameplay somewhat.
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Wahoooooooo!
Damn, was I early?
Damn, was I early?
While were on the subject of wanting something innotive or a change to the genre you know how Mario know brandashes a water backpack type thing?
Well I don't like this much, hell I'll still buy it but from what I've seen I don't like it. I've always seen Mario as Mario just him jumping around acting camp, the water thing should be a pickup like the caps were in Mario 64.
Just an opinion.
As for Turok, yeah it's more of the same but I like the way Turok is going so far but in the end the revelution of the FPS genere will come and we will all cheer.
Like this..
Wahoooooooo
Well I don't like this much, hell I'll still buy it but from what I've seen I don't like it. I've always seen Mario as Mario just him jumping around acting camp, the water thing should be a pickup like the caps were in Mario 64.
Just an opinion.
As for Turok, yeah it's more of the same but I like the way Turok is going so far but in the end the revelution of the FPS genere will come and we will all cheer.
Like this..
Wahoooooooo
LOL!
Strangly that's a good question. And one that is, but shouldn't be, hard to answer.
Well there's a couple ways to look at this.
One is that people I know will probably buy Turok so I could play that. But no-one else I know is ever likely to buy that Britney games. So which means I'd have to go for the Britney game.
But the other way of looking at it, is that I've got every Turok game, and I luv the series! So I should get Turok!
hmmm.....
AAAArrrrrrrrrrrr! {head explodes}
well ok, erm..... honestly speaking I think i'd have to go for...
:p
Strangly that's a good question. And one that is, but shouldn't be, hard to answer.
Well there's a couple ways to look at this.
One is that people I know will probably buy Turok so I could play that. But no-one else I know is ever likely to buy that Britney games. So which means I'd have to go for the Britney game.
But the other way of looking at it, is that I've got every Turok game, and I luv the series! So I should get Turok!
hmmm.....
AAAArrrrrrrrrrrr! {head explodes}
well ok, erm..... honestly speaking I think i'd have to go for...
:p
obviously that shoulda been Britney, not Britnet... I'm sure Cooky guessed :-)
hmmm... I got a Q for you Cooky- if you could only EVER have one, what would it be?
Turok Evolution
OR
That Britnet dance game
???
;-)
Turok Evolution
OR
That Britnet dance game
???
;-)
It's coming out on 4th or 7th sommin' like that of September this yr and Gamecube in the UK!
Can't WAIT!
:)
Can't WAIT!
:)
hmm... well it better be out on GC before PS2... and I'd hope before or at the same time as Xbox...
Actually I think you 'might' be wrong there.
I heard from someone once that all the shots that have been released so far are actually from the X-Box version. This could be false information, but who knows!
I guess we'll all find out when it's released!
:)
I heard from someone once that all the shots that have been released so far are actually from the X-Box version. This could be false information, but who knows!
I guess we'll all find out when it's released!
:)
Yer, but Tirok Evolution is being developed on GameCube and then ported to the others isn't it? I think that's right, so it means we'll get the better 'un-ported' version, and we'll probably get it a little earlier, rather than most other multi-platform games which are usually out on either PS2 or Xbox first then get a GC port.
Yer it's a REAL shame that it went multiplatform!
I can see why it did. Acclaim will make a load more money that way. But it's still a right ol' shame to see it come out on everything.
You know though, that you can rest assured that the Gamecube version is going to be better than the PS2 version anyways, cos the PS2 is really BAD at doing anti-aliasing, so it's gonna look a LOT worse than the Gamecube n X-Box incantations.
:)
I can see why it did. Acclaim will make a load more money that way. But it's still a right ol' shame to see it come out on everything.
You know though, that you can rest assured that the Gamecube version is going to be better than the PS2 version anyways, cos the PS2 is really BAD at doing anti-aliasing, so it's gonna look a LOT worse than the Gamecube n X-Box incantations.
:)
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