"It would have been easy to abandon the platform in order to develop for something more 'sexy' and new, but that would really have been the wrong motivation. Designed by Acclaim's Austin team without the benefit of 4-Meg Expansion paks in their dev-stations, Turok 3 promises to avoid the framerate problems that plagued Turok 2 and even Perfect Dark.īut why stick with the N64 anyway? Why not move on to the more powerful hardware like the Dreamcast or PlayStation2? "We have always stood by Nintendo and the N64 with the Turok franchise," says lead designer Dave Dienstbier.
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Titled Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion, the series makes its final stand on the N64. That energy is located in Turok's Light Burden. A cosmic entity named Oblivion is on a world-devouring spree, and it seeks the final bits of pure energy that created our world. The original dino crisis is back for one last turn on the Nintendo 64. But despite those gripes, and even though it doesn't have quite the same depth and all the extra goodies of Perfect Dark, Turok 3 still delivers an excellent first-person shooting experience, and should be an instant purchase by any fan of the genre. My only real problems with T3 are its length (it's only about six hours long for each character), and the fact that it's still hard to aim your weapons in high-stress areas. This is the first N64 game I've seen truly use the Expansion Pak to its potential-the difference between low and high resolution modes is stunning. The part that impressed me most about Turok 3, though, was the graphic quality. I love the fact you can now play as two different characters with their own distinct skills and optional paths, and it's cool to see the amount of emphasis put into the story line. Even better, the new save feature allows you to mark your place at any time in the game.
Almost everything that irritated me about Turok 2 has been fixed: While the overall levels are still huge, they've been divided up into dozens of smaller areas. But after only a few minutes of play, that feeling completely disappeared.
So, naturally, I started Turok 3 with a little apprehension. Sure, I enjoyed the first game, but Turok 2 (with its huge levels and inane save feature) was an exercise in frustration, and don't even get me started on the crap that was Rage Wars.
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