Turbogurra: I believe the autoshotgun was removed from the first area because it made levels 1-3 too easy and rendered the regular shotty obsolete too early. This is a change I'm all for.

Shellshock9: The changes they did were done on purpose. I think the level you're describing is the one that required pinpoint jumping accuracy otherwise you would fall down (to your death). They have altered this; most likely to make it more forgiving and not so frustrating/ annoying.

Shellshock9: Also, the barrier on level 2, behind which is a minigun, armor and some tokens, can be destroyed with explosive arrows or shells. In the original, only a grenade launcher would do the trick from what I've read.

alabaster: The most obvious is right after the very first raptor you encounter in Level 1. You go forward, shoot two guys, and then follow a trail of those little triforce things and you're supposed to enter a narrow chasm area with a bunch of climbable walls (one of the keys is at the top of the first one, guarded by a tough plasma rifle guy). Instead, it's just one open area with some ruins and the key is in the open.

chevkoch: I remember that spot well, weird they changed that. Maybe it's a dumbing-down effort, so that you will be able to collect keys without having to work/look for them at all? If so, that turns me off. That's kind of a fundamental change to what the original was about in that respect.

alabaster: So I've played this new Turok a little over the past day or so and I've been getting the sense that something was off about the levels. I mean, I played this game a ton as a kid, so I know it pretty well. I thought maybe my memory was failing me, but sure enough, I went back and compared the levels to the ones in the original and there's a few areas that have been changed.

The most obvious is right after the very first raptor you encounter in Level 1. You go forward, shoot two guys, and then follow a trail of those little triforce things and you're supposed to enter a narrow chasm area with a bunch of climbable walls (one of the keys is at the top of the first one, guarded by a tough plasma rifle guy). Instead, it's just one open area with some ruins and the key is in the open.

There's another in Level 3 (a small change), where you're crossing a gap close to the beginning of the map, after having climbed some stairs into the ruined city. Instead of a wooden bridge, you cross via a ladder which is in a slightly different position, and there's a big ol' wall to your left, where in the original there was just open sky.

That's all I've noticed so far, but I'm willing to bet there's more. Has anyone noticed other changes? More importantly, does anyone know why Night Dive would change this stuff? Seems like totally pointless alterations, really. And it can't be for technical reasons, since Turok ran just fine on PC 18 years ago.

alabaster: Maybe the devs can be convinced to add an option for original vs. tweaked maps in the future?

FreedomWings: Hmm sounds like they dumbed down some of the game. I really don't like that change in the first level you mentioned it makes getting that key meaning less in a way. When I first found that key it was exciting because, yay I found a secret, and you got to see a later foe with a weapon you could later use right from the beginning. I like it when games do things like that. It was a nice surprise that allured to greater power.

chevkoch: That would be ideal, I'm all for that :)

Onox: No, the autoshotgun is still there, just not exactly at the same spot :)