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Posted December 17, 2015
T-Rex cutlets is what's for dinner.

<span class="bold">Turok</span>, the remastered fast-paced jurrassic FPS, is available now DRM-free on GOG.com with a 20% launch discount.

Remember when dinosaurs were all the rage and aliens were still scary? Ah, yes, the 90s. What a magical time to be growing up. Imagine a jungle-like land populated with unfriendly aliens. Now throw in some aggressive flora for added inhospitality. Surely, dinosaurs are the next logical addition. No wait, make that dinosaurs with guns. All that's missing now is an angry Native American warrior of time-travelling heritage to clean up the mess and thwart a great evil in the process. There, pure 90s.

Thankfully, Turok is not in the habit of entering such exotic-but-hostile lands unprepared. Strapped across his back are all kinds of devastating weapons, from the not-so-humble bow and knife to handheld instruments of mass destruction like miniguns and rocket-launchers. Plus all the havoc they wreak now looks extra spiffy in this remastered version, thanks to widescreen and high resolutions support, improved level design and fancy lighting effects.

Bring an army of oversized reptiles closer to extinction as the legendary <span class="bold">Turok</span>, now DRM-free on GOG.com. The 20% launch discount will last until December 24, 17:59 PM GMT.
Posted December 17, 2015

New features include:
- Support for high resolutions, and widescreen
- Improved gameplay and level design
- OpenGL for video backend to provide portability and support for vertical sync
soo ....
is there a linux version coming ?
Posted December 17, 2015
Bit pricey for me, Turok will take a trip to my wishlist for now,
Maybe i will wait and pick it up when the whole series is up on GOG.
Posted December 17, 2015
Bit too pricey for me right now, but I'm definitely glad it's here (yay for classic FPSes) and I'll keep my eyes on it. :)

Hopefully it doesn't get bad reviews just for the price, though. -_-
Post edited December 17, 2015 by tfishell
Posted December 17, 2015
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Fairfox: More money than I was expecting (like $10), but oh well.

Turok is still only 216MB to download... this is a good thing; I hate when old games are sliiightly modified and suddenly bloat by a full GB or something.
That's something that I really don't like about the "remasters only" release policy that seems to be in effect for games like Monkey Island. Even if I only want to play the version that was originally only a few megabytes in size, I still have to download and install at least a gigabyte of stuff that I have absolutely no interest in.
Posted December 17, 2015
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Fairfox: More money than I was expecting (like $10), but oh well.

Turok is still only 216MB to download... this is a good thing; I hate when old games are sliiightly modified and suddenly bloat by a full GB or something.
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tinyE: I have never had a chance to play Turok so can I ask a stupid question since I trust your opinion: what separates it from other shooters?
Your question was not addressed to me, but I'll take a stab while the install wraps up: Oodles of nostalgia.

It does have some good level design and platforming sections. The weapons are fun and well done, and at the time the bow was pretty novel. It was hindered by the system limitations of the era (super short clipping plane which they passed off as fog) being the worst offender.

All told it's probably most fair to say Turok is just a 'B to B+' shooter, but it's one I'll take over many of today's AAA corridor shooters any day.
Posted December 17, 2015
Bought. Can't wait to give it a shot. I never got very far into it on the N64. Keep the goodness coming, Night Dive and GOG. And Strife!
Posted December 17, 2015
Umm, Yay. Thanks gOg and Night Dive!
Posted December 17, 2015
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Posted December 17, 2015
Interesting, i recall seeing a recent thread talking about how Turok was coming to PC... guess it's here :P

To note, i do hope the configuration is set up in a way where it's easy to update and improve the meshes/textures for later... Graphically it looks Quake1 level (which isn't a surprise).
Posted December 17, 2015
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tinyE: I have never had a chance to play Turok so can I ask a stupid question since I trust your opinion: what separates it from other shooters?
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theTak: Your question was not addressed to me, but I'll take a stab while the install wraps up: Oodles of nostalgia.

It does have some good level design and platforming sections. The weapons are fun and well done, and at the time the bow was pretty novel. It was hindered by the system limitations of the era (super short clipping plane which they passed off as fog) being the worst offender.

All told it's probably most fair to say Turok is just a 'B to B+' shooter, but it's one I'll take over many of today's AAA corridor shooters any day.
Any review is much appreciated. :D Thank you.
Posted December 17, 2015
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tinyE: I have never had a chance to play Turok so can I ask a stupid question since I trust your opinion: what separates it from other shooters?
You're playing a Native American and most of your enemies are dinosaurs.
That's about it.
Posted December 17, 2015
Pretty hefty pricetag, almost on Quake 3/Bethestardian levels, but this is still a day 1 purchase for me. Besides, Night Dive are working on a System Shock-remake/System Shock 3 and they got a lot of the old Looking Glass staff on board, so at least I'm lining the right people's pockets with money. :P
Posted December 17, 2015

New features include:
- Support for high resolutions, and widescreen
- Improved gameplay and level design
- OpenGL for video backend to provide portability and support for vertical sync
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immi101: soo ....
is there a linux version coming ?
I've decided: No Linux, no deal.
At some point I have to make a stand I guess and since it's OpenGL anyway...

Not that I have any choice since I don't have any current Windows, lol.
Post edited December 17, 2015 by Klumpen0815
Posted December 17, 2015
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Damn that's expensive. The game isn't "remastered" enough to even equal how much they're asking for this game.

To the wishlist it goes. 5.00 to 10.00 would've been much better.

But thank you for bringing it over. ^^
Posted December 17, 2015
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This is neat and all, but $20? No.

Still, thank you for releasing it, now bring the games that are on Steam over here please. (Retroism/NightDive)
Post edited December 17, 2015 by CARRiON.FLOWERS
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