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Truth is I picked this Turok game because of two things: it was cheap (got it from gogamer.com for like $5.00) and because it was a PC game with co-op and I had a LAN party coming up. That's bascially it. I have played some of the previous Turok games over the years to one extent or another. I think probably the PS2 game the most extensively of them all to this point. I enjoyed the PS2 game, although the segments on the flying dinosaur were pretty fucking worthless, in my opinion. Really, the point of all of this is that this purchase wasn't one of those "Oh my fucking God, I've got to have that game" purchases. It was definately one of those "Fuck it, it's cheap and probably worth the low price for a bit of entertainment and a change of pace from playing fucking Call of Duty 4 again" purchases.
So I got it a couple months ago, installed it on my hard drive, played a few minutes of the single player campaign, and promptly forgot about it until it was time for the LAN party. Didn't notice that the advertised co-op wasn't through the campaign as one would reasonably expect. No, not that at all. Co-op consists of three small missions, that's all. Don't get me wrong, the co-op is fun and all, but all the three missions to is serve to insult the customer and tease them with what could have been. Seriously guys, three fucking missions? Apparently the crack pipe was being passed around pretty heavily the day that decision was made. Always nice to see some tacked on bullshit that exists so marketing can have a bullet point, rather than fully implemented so that the customer can have what they are most likely, and reasonably, expecting. Way to mail it in, guys.
Like I said though, the three missions are fun, but way too short in content, and considering the very limited nature of the rest of the multiplayer stuff, it's obvious very quickly that multiplayer was just tacked on last minute bullshit so they could say, "look, we have multiplayer". Whatever makes 'em happy. The truth is self-evident. The single player game is, however, a great time so far. Just an enenmy shooting, dinosaur knifing good time. Granted, it's still early on, and the early snapshot of gameplay could very well change as the game goes on, but right now, I'm optimistic that Turok could very well have what it takes to be entertaining to the last.
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