Reaches Half-Life heights on occasionsThat is one bold statement, innit? Especially for those who dislike the prequel with a passion, like myself. My own little personal miracle of 2020. It's doesn't help enemy respawn is still here but can be easily remedied with MOD. Place the.kpf inside 'mods' folder, created in game root. Quick Save/Load function is implemented now and works flawlessly.

Turok 2: Seeds of Evil - Turok 2: Seeds of Evil returns to the PC! The sequel to the hit game Turok is now available, featuring a host of enemies, weapons, missions, locations and a new multiplayer mode. Remastered for today’s computers using a new engine with improved graphics, Turok 2 will transport players into sprawling environments with vicious enemies lurking behind every corner.The.

The review is based with mod in play because without it it's just a mediocre wack-a-mole shooter with artificially inflated difficulty. Normally I don't do this but overall quality of the game warrants one exception.For starters there is a story to set the stage in the beginning via short animation. Ain't much but it's something to hold onto since the manual in any shape or form has been omitted from the package yet again. Furthermore there are set objectives to complete during each of the 6 levels (down from 8), involving saving NPCs and destroying enemy infrastructure. Both provide some tangible sense of your actions actually making a difference in the world, unlike was the case in the original game.Levels progression follows a familiar design pattern: city, temple, jungle, cave, hi-tech, spaceship. Almost exactly like the first one but with jungle and human architecture levels switching order. You will still be collecting keys to unlock teleporters to following levels, same as before.

The additions are metroidvania-like abilities to collect and challenge rooms which now each yield a nuke weapon part instead regular goodies like heath and ammo. But not armor because sadly it's gone from the game. Couple of checkpoints on every level can be used to max out ammo and health and serve as quick teleporters between levels, reducing sparse but forced backtracking to a minimum. Old inventory screen is accompanied with mission objective screen while also tracking discovered secrets.Levels got a HUGE upgrade in size. Just after I thought I've seen the biggest ones yet Turok 2 blows its former self (and every game ever made) out of the water.

They literary go forever. And that's a good thing! Made easy to navigate by still ever useful minimap and level design features which are distinguishable enough by themselves. Every level is split into up to 10 smaller sections, via teleporter, and most might pass as an original Doom map both in size and complexity.

Incredibly, there are still no loading screens to be seen even though the game was made for the same console system as the first one but with levels now using more complex geometry and textures.First level however suffers from being to simplistic initially, as well as being too 'blocky'. Latter is unfortunately true for 2nd level.

Both have visible signs of laziness with misaligned textures in plain sight. To say the start was rough is an understatement. The size made up for it though, along with other unexpected features: riding adino for example, and fair attempt on design genuinely mimicking human architecture, to name a couple.Later levels have their own set of unique enemies and they spared to expense making them stand out. Honestly, this mtf gets better the more you play.Where the game truly shines and where it surpasses Half-Life is the gunplay and enemy animation. Using HL as an example due to most people being familiar with it and both released less than a month apart form each other.Yeah there are around 20 weapons in here and quite unusually all are useful. They have good synergies and ammo is plentiful this time around. Doesn't hurt later enemies drop some after death.The starting weapon for example, your bow: shoots arrows that are 1-kill when embedded properly in brain matter, they can be picked up from dead bodies AND from the floors/walls even after save/load!!

Come to think of it. Forget HL, no game ever did this right, before or since.Upgraded bow you find later in 1st level even has adjustable zoom with always max string tension, behaving almost like machine gun crossbow. Other weapons are precise and deadly too, no random cone bullet-spread, as experienced for years to come in other games. Plain shotgun being useful beyond 20m is enough on its own, let alone many other world firsts.Ammo capacity should be higher though.

50 bullets for a pistol, 20 for shotgun? For the longest time I though I missed a backpack pickup but it turned out one does not exist. It really should.Enemies don't just stand around waiting to be picked off from just beyond visual range anymore. They are aware of you now, often with reactions measured in milliseconds. Not my cup of tea but later you'll encounter more and more those patrolling around, only reacting if you cross their sight. Those will still be difficult to put down thanks to very extravagant skeletal animations, typically involving their head bouncing around wildly, making head shots a celebratory rarity even with your go-to hitscan sniper.

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Even more so after you've aggravated them and they are charging your position. And you'll want head shot make no mistake because, and this is one of rare complaints, every enemy is a bullet sponge unless pacified between the eyes (unless explosives).There are many kinds and it's obvious they put effort into enemy design, even when some are present only in one place on given map. Death animations are amazing most enemies have multiple gory ways of meeting their maker. I'd be shocked how good it is had I played it back in the day. So much so maybe my impression would spill over to Turok as well. The only way I know how to can explain how somebody can still like that turd, besides blind nostalgia.Remake job itself is pretty good, same quality as in Turok, with the exception the minimap zoom not remembering set value and resetting to max zoom each time you re-load or enter a teleporter. Many menus with many options with many steps of precision to chose from, as God intended way back when he created Adam & Eve.

Saves are old school located within game root folder. Why did we ever start fixing what was never broken?Only problem, confined to us with machines with specific old hardware, came from frequent game freezes (every 15 mins on average) which required process kill in task manager. Apparently it's due to old faulty AMD DX11 driver I'm stuck with, but I write it down to lazy code in the remake.

Why else force newest API(s) on 20 year old tech? This remake would comfortably run on an early 2000 machine (as an example how they gutted widespread compatibility). Performance wise it was butter smooth otherwise.Overall pretty happy with this, even having to plow through Turdok beforehand. Closest HL experience I had in a long time. I was skeptical and expected the worst when I speak-peaked what's ahead just after beating 1st game by watching a YT video and observing some mediocre FPS with zoomed in FOV and bad combat. Must have been a noob.

Comments about sequel plays 'differently', with negative undertones, also triggered alarm bells. Must have been noobs. Thankfully all turned out great in the end!

Posted: 14 AprilNow I remember why I didn't finish this game back in 98-99'.- It has incredibly lackluster level design (grey empty corridors upon corridors upon corridors) - keep in mind that Turok 2 was released after Half-Life, SiN, Unreal, Hexen 2, Blood 2, Shogo and many other shooters with fantastic level design! Duke Nukem 3D (released almost 3 years before Turok 2!) still manages to impress with its levels, while everything in Turok feels like a long corridor with dinosaurs.- Enemy AI is really bad even on Hardcore difficulty. Dinosaurs with ranged attack often stand still while you score headshots.

Dinosaurs with melee attack try to overwhelm you, but are sometimes stuck behind some crates or another objects. Again, compare that to Unreal or Half-Life!- Shooting is subpar and there's little variety between weapons.

Shotgun feels like a bigger pistol, for instance. Again, back at those times every single shooter had a memorable weapon - crowbar being the most iconic, obviously.

No such thing in Turok 2.- Even though it's not a huge deal for a shooter, story is pretty much non-existent. Every other major FPS of that time had a story.- Graphics were really good back at the day, but now.Basically, Turok 2 has aged incredibly bad and has nothing to make it stand out from other classic shooters of the 90s. Except for dinosaurs, maybe. While I wholeheartidly recommend Half-Life, Doom, Quake, Duke Nukem 3D even now, 20+ years after their release, this one has nothing to make it appealing.