Well, last week the Turok Demo came out, and I’ve finally had a chance to play it. Turok is about a ship of humans that crash lands on an alien planet infested with dinosaurs. They, of course, are being followed by other people who want to kill them for whatever reason. You have to fend off the dinos while attacking the other humans. The demo is short, so there really isn’t too much backstory.

Moving on to the gameplay, Turok is run off of the Unreal Engine, and its graphics are reminiscent of Gears of War, as is the feel of the weapons. In the demo, you basically have a knife and a bow for silent kills from different ranges, a dual-wield able submachine gun, a dual-wield able shotgun with a flare launcher to distract the dinos, and a more powerful weapon that is really hard to use and not worth it in that particular level. One can kill the dinosaurs in any manner, but shotguns seem to work best unless you’re trying for a stealth kill, in which case a bow is almost necessary. Read the rest of this entry »