Turok Next Gen

[Horrorfan]

I have only seen one screenshot of this, but it looks amazing (despite the last few games being brutal wastes of time and effort). Does anyone have any info on it? Is it a new storyline? I never liked the old one really...I'd prefer a more dino-crisis style twist on it.

 

[Mentok]

The first one was the only good one.

This new one looks friggin amazing and should be really good if they keep closer to the first game.

 

[WhatsHisFace]

It's developed by Propaganda games, and this is their first project. Their website says they
have "four industry veterans with a passion" but doesn't list who they are, so it could be
Derek Smart, John Romero, Harvey Smith and Trip Hawkins for all we know. The story isn't
exactly the same because now you're Black Ops, and the setting is "the near future", so
it's been Ubisoft-ified,

The first one was the only good one.

This new one looks friggin amazing and should be really good if they keep closer to the first game.

No way. The best Turok game, without question, is Turok 2.

 

[Joker]

sounds like they're reimagining the original, Doom 3 style

 

[WhatsHisFace]

They really did steal that one guy from Doom 3.

And he looked better in Doom 3, despite this using the Unreal 3.0 engine.

 

[ToddIsDead]

I used to love playing Turok 2 splitscreen with my cousin. This looks promising, but it's way too early to really say anything.

 

[WhatsHisFace]

I don't think this game is going to be too good.

First of all, this is the team's first game. No matter how good members of a
team are, their first game together is always a bit of a mess in some way.

Second, they're making this game like every other game instead of
like "Turok". Black Ops. Space Marines. Unreal Engine 3. Which brings me
to my next reason.

Third, the graphics are powered by Unreal Engine 3, which as we've seen, is
a really powerful engine. Well, these people don't seem all that skilled,
because this game doesn't even look as good as Quake Wars on the Doom 3
engine.

Gears of War: UE3.0:

Quake Wars: Doom 3:

Turok: UE3.0:

I mean, these guys make the UE3 engine look a generation behind the engine it's a
generation ahead of. If that's the effort they put into graphics with a proven
renderer, what the heck is the actual game going to be like?

Now I will be one of the first to tell you that graphics do not make a great
game. However, skilled studios are typically good at making great renderers
as well as great games. It's an overall look at quality, really. And this comes
up short.

It's still early, I guess. We can wait and see.

 

[Mentok]

WHF you bastard, you just raped my bandwidth with those GoW pics

 

[WhatsHisFace]

WHF you bastard, you just raped my bandwidth with those GoW pics

Are you the one with 56k, or is that Socrates?

If you got that picture on dial-up... I very much pity you.

 

[Horrorfan]

If you got that picture on dial-up... I very much pity you.

I did on an extremely slow and old computer

 

[WhatsHisFace]

Well, at least you can see how bad Turok looks in comparison.

 

[Horrorfan]

Actually I think Turok looks really good...maybe not as good as GOW, but definitly good.

 

[WhatsHisFace]

If Xbox-quality texture-work improves and level design expands (right now it's just a canyon run with not enough geometry) it has the groundwork to look great. But...

 

[Horrorfan]

You are one picky bastard

 

[WhatsHisFace]

Yeah, I guess I am. I suppose I'm just not happy with the games direction overall, which is leading me to nitpick... I don't know. The graphics just look too much like the PC version of Farcry for me to be even remotely impressed, but if this is being built on the lowest-common-denominator specs between the PS3 and the 360, what can we do?