Turok

As a long time fan of Turok (back from it's days on the N64, before the last-gen reboot) there are a few issues that need to be addressed with this release. 1. Charging us $20 (or 15.99 while it's on sale) is just WAY too much, even for a game of this Caliber. Even Rogue Squadron, another GREAT piece of 64 gaming nostalgia, as well as part of the Star Wars franchise, sells for $10, non-sale pricing [and often for about $7 when on sale]. Imho- $10 would be a reasonable asking price for this game, it is a product of the late 90's, after all. 2. It appears the fog of war has been removed, and when I played this game, while it seemed more of an annoyance at first- overall I feel it greatly added to the atmosphere of the game, making it a slightly more tense and mysterious environment. Completely removing the fog seems short sighted, in my opinion. I hope if there's a second version of this release, the devs will make sure to add an option to re-enable the original fog, and hopefully they'll consider charging a more reasonable price for a game from '99 made with relatively few tweaks. Sidenote: I *WOULD* consider 15/20 for this a fair price if they could *somehow* hobble together a workable lan multiplayer mode for this release. Random Turok Factoid: Iguana [Turok's Devs] had to produce all of their game development tools internally. Fitting the game on its 8 MB cartridge was difficult; ultimately, Iguana had to compress everything and reduce the quality of the music to meet size requirements. ...the game used real-time lighting effects and particle systems for added realism. Iguana was able to use Acclaim's state-of-the-art motion capture studio, allowing humanoid characters to move smoothly and in a convincing manner ... A stuntman recorded movements for the human characters; while the developers tried to use emus and ostriches for the dinosaurs, the results were only used as reference material. (Source: Development section of the Turok Wiki)

I'll buy it when the cost goes down, 20 € is just too much. I think that 10 or 8 € would be a better price point for this, they didn't even retexture it.

This is a fantastic title for the nostalgic. If you know what this is, and you think you're interested, just go ahead and buy it. The mouse control is spot on, the game play is almost Doom 2 paced, and best of all no crummy fog wall! The Aklaim and Iguana intros are even intact. Mommy! Technically, the port works very well for me, so far. If you're picking this up for the first time, expect: Fairly open level design for the time, decent platforming sections, good weapon variety with a few unique ones thrown in, and some sorta-interesting-at-times-but-repetitive enemies. The soundtrack is funky and does a pleasant job of just blending in without being too up-front. A solid 'B' grade shooter for the period.

Really like this game, although it has some flaws... ...but asking for 20€ for a game like this?! This is absolutely insane.