Turok Needs a Comback!!!

In March of 97’ we’re introduced on the N64 a first-person shooter that has us hunting dinosaurs and thugs while searching for keys and scattered weapon parts to take down the evil bad guy known as the Campaigner. You, Turok, or otherwise known as Tal’Set, must go through a series of levels, while also having a handful of awesome weapons, killing bosses and jumping to rock to rock just to complete the game. I loved it. Climbing mountains and you hear his grunting expressions, collecting over one hundred life forces and hearing him say “I am Turok!” Ahh, that always made me laugh.

We get introduced to two more games, Turok 2: Seed of Evil and Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion. We have new levels, new characters, new guns and new Turoks. Turok 2, we’re playing as Joshua Fireseed, and he gets helped out by an alien woman named Adon. In the third, we’re playing as either Danielle or Joseph, siblings of Josh while also being aided with Adon.

As stated, in the first game, you’re Tal’Set, trying to find pieces of this weapon called the  Chronoscepter. It’s a massively, powerful gun that the Campaigner also wants. He needs to be dead. So, after going around I believe eight different levels trying to find keys to the portals to get you to the other levels and the missing weapon pieces, you’re up against this guy and once he’s dead, boom the game is completed.

In Seeds of Evil, you’re a new Turok, Joshua Fireseed, who must destroy the Primagen, a powerful alien entity. Adon, the alien female guider, helps you along the way. The Primagen are awaken after Tal’Set destroyed the Chronoscepter. This game has added something new to levels, such as adding mission objectives. Throughout the game, a creature calling himself “Oblivion” appears and sets traps for you which leads up to a new plot of the next game.

That new game is called “Shadow of Oblivion.” You are taking control of one of two characters, even though in the story, they’re traveling together, why that is I don’t really know. Adon also helps you throughout the game as well. You are to put an end to Oblivion once and for all. Josh is dead after being killed by Oblivion’s minions while having nightmarish dreams about this child who appears to be the key.

Oh, I shouldn’t forget the Cerebral Bore. Oh GOD is that gun amazing!! This gun was fucking disgusting when you saw what it could do. And boy do I mean disgusting. What this can do is basically drain its cerebrospinal fluid from the head. After all of it gets drained out, the bore explodes, decapitating the enemy. Sick right? This weapon made Turok even more awesome in my eyes after witnessing such a weapon. This was a bloody piece of fuck and boy was I amazed at what it did to enemies. God do I love that gun.

There was another game called Turok: Rage Wars, it’s just a fighting party game that has you playing as majority of the characters from 1 and 2 in a series of action-based levels that has you unlocking more characters, weapons, and earning trophies. That is basically the point of the game.

Though, sadly, there were two more games that came after this for different systems and neither of them pleased the audience. You see, the next game that came into the series was “Evolution.” I HATED this game with a passion after what it did to the series. This game is a prequel I believe to Dinosaur Hunter, the first game, because it has you playing as Tal’Set again. Your main enemy is a cowboy named Tobias Bruckner.

Interesting thing to note is that Bruckner’s name is being used as a trophy, the Tobias Bruckner Memorial Award that’s given to the worst video game. Thank you Turok Evolution. Thank you.

I couldn’t really tell you the story line behind this game because when I was playing it, I got confused exactly what I was supposed to be doing in each level. I could never really complete an entire level without looking at some walkthrough online because the game is that messed up! The commercials did a heck of a great job promoting this game to me, making it sound like Turok: Evolution is some badass game, but as soon as I got my hands on it, boy was I truly disappointed with how bad everything was.

And then another Turok game came out years later, just called Turok. What were we going to expect from this? A reboot? A sequel to Shadow of Oblivion? Some prequel to one of the previous games? No, we get something entirely different!!! A game that has nothing to do with the story of the series that we have. There’s no Tal’Set, no Joshua, no Adon no Fireseed siblings. We get nothing! And it’s not like Turok was just some random game, it was a comic series! So, let me get this straight, of all the games that are out there that follows the story of Turok, we’re going to create a game that has nothing to do with the story? Not even as a prequel? You’ve gone to be kidding me.

I never did play the game because I was so furious to hear and see what the latest Turok really was. All of my friends who were also Turok fans didn’t even bother to pick this game up either. I know that a lot of people did play this game, and I hope their feelings were crushed when they realized that this game wasn’t going to be a continuous follow-up of the story. I refuse to tell you all what the game was about.

It’s truly a sad ending in how the Turok series ended. I really hope, one day in the future, they decide to bring back the game to what it was. I really wouldn’t mind that at all. And the cerebral bore? Yeah, bring that back as well! I definitely would play the game again... Until then, I’m one, disappointed and sad little kitty.

Also, ever noticed how in the first game you have to jump to rocks every now and then? To rock... Turok... Hmm... To rock, to rock, to rock, Turok, Turok, Turok... Hee hee

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