I was so goddamn sad because this game *could* have been “great” relatively easily… I would have added:

* gore during the knife-take-down scenes with humans (not just sparks)
* dismemberment, headshots and sticking people to surfaces with the bow sometimes.
* un-cheapened the boss fights and made them more flexible (meaning a grenade is as good as a rocket bow)

Just those changes along would have made this like a 8/10 in my book… if they had then gone and added *real* co-op in the game, it would have been like a 8.5 or 9/10 for pure awesomeness.

Co-op would have been cool. So would vehicles.

Full co-op would have rocked, but there was such a strong foundation for this game that was ruined with some retarded stuff (namely all the boss fights)

Wait until you get to the helicopter, it’s the 2nd to last boss… then you’ll appreciate the paragraph on how I used a nuclear stock-pile worth of weapons before realizing I was *only* allowed to use the rocket launcher like 25′ from me… such awesome game design.

Yeah, the serpent comes after the tank. The only way I beat the tank is by looking up a youtube video on how to beat it. It was pretty frustrating, huh? The thing shot a missile literally every 3 seconds.

Another thing I don’t like is how hard the medium sized dinosaurs are to hit when they’re sprinting around and climbing trees. This game is hard enough as it is on normal mode, I can’t even imagine playing it on inhuman.

Thanks dude — that was a painful battle, did you get everything figured out? As with *all* the boss fights in that game, it took me like 6 times, and each time was totally different than the last. The 6th time it was so easy it was a joke, the times before that it was almost impossible… I really can’t stand randomness like that.

I forgot, is the serpent after the giant tank boss? Did you figure out that you had to run *towards* the tank, then hang a hard right and book it for the ammo crates?

I had no idea…

Fucking hilarious and too true.

Great review, I’m stuck on the stupid sea serpent boss. Ugh.

That is *exactly* right, that helicopter battle drove me batshit, I actually used 10 explosive arrows, 4 grenades, entire rounds of gattling gun and I think 3 retries before I finally saw the RPG down the side of the elevated walkway… I sighed to myself, picked it up, shot the helicopter and moved on to the next scene.

I will say that the t-rex battle at the end was really nerve racking… and I thought a lot harder than it needed to be. I used the “strafe backwards around the crates” trick just to kill it… that one took like 5 retries for me.

The game could have been a lot better if they had just

* Not been cheap with some of the design
* Brought back the insane nuclear weapons from Turok 1
* Co-op

I think those changes alone would have bumped that up to a 8/10 score for me… especially the co-op.

Did you find the boss battles confusing/frustrating as well? The fact that there was only *1* way to kill certain bosses really pissed me off… it was so limiting/not fun.

And that giant spider tank I had a hell of a time with. I might just be really bad at this game, but it took me like 5 tries to finally be able to run past it and get to shelter before it killed me.