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Or you could download the US one.

Those PlayStation 3 owning dinosaur-lovers among you who are "a bit slow" in the old downloading US demos directly department will be pleased to hear that the PAL version of last Thursday's American Turok demo is currently on course for a 7th February release on PSN.

That's according to Disney Interactive, which said the date isn't 100 percent confirmed but is what the publisher is "currently looking at".

The demo, also already released on Xbox Live, weighs in at over 1GB and let's you wander around doing knife kills and shooting up dinos, predictably. Wikipedia has quite a nice rundown of confirmed dinos, if you're interested. Dilophosaurus is in there - and thankfully free of the inaccuracies popularised by Jurassic Park, namely that it looks like a parasol whenever it gets cross.

As for the game itself, it's a first-person shooter where you take on the role of Joseph Turok, some sort of special forces man on a mission to rid the world of the evil Roland Kane on an alien planet full of dinosaurs. You can see how developer Propaganda Games built on that by going back in time to our first impressions.

The full version is due out on PS3 and Xbox 360 8th February, with a PC version also planned.

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Tejstar #1 4 years ago

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Any ideas when the PC demo is coming?
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FooAtari #2 4 years ago

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Your not missing anything.

It's pretty poor.
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Santino #3 4 years ago

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I agree with you, i think this demo will do possible sales the game might have had a lot of harm. i cannot believe they turned turok into a space marine ffs.
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Artemis_Matsas #4 4 years ago

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Yeah, nothing special unfortunately

It's not 100% rubbish though, so i might pick it up sometime in the future from the bargain bin.
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dazzaman #5 4 years ago

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Agreed, thought it was a load of bobbins.

Too dark for a start.
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Steroyd #6 4 years ago

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lol
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Heitzu #7 4 years ago

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Space marines are in fashion though... out of curiosity what was he before? Just some dude lost or something else?

Edited by 1 at 21/01/08 @ 10:30
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Machetazo #8 4 years ago

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I'm keen to give this a try, though I don't hold out too much hope that it plays like Turok. Hopefully, it'll be a demo worth playing.
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McBradders #9 4 years ago

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lol PAL PSN
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NickNack #10 4 years ago

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The difference between the 360 and PS3 versions are shocking. 360 is the lead platform and looks ok ish, but the PS3 version looks like a PS2 title in high res, the developers actually had the nerve to tell people they were sick of poor PS3 ports and would be setting the bar for how it should be done. What we get is one of the worst ports ever, and one of the developers of the game who also happens to be a mod over at Neogaf is banning people for speaking the truth about his crappy game.

I always knew Neogaf was a a lame website full of dicks, but this is taking it to far. Do not buy there crappy game on PS3, and don't go to Neogaf if you have any respect for yourself or gaming.
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Machetazo #11 4 years ago

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Heitzu: "Space marines are in fashion though... out of curiosity what was he before? Just some dude lost or something else?"

[link url=http://en.wikipedi a.org/wiki/Turok
]http://en.wikipedi a.org/wiki/Turok
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should give you the answer (though it depends about WHICH Turok you're asking about. )
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paulf #12 4 years ago

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played the demo on xbox - really dark, which was a good thing in a way because i couldnt see how bad the game was, don't waste your bandwidth on this one
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NickNack #13 4 years ago

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One person over at Neogaf who said Turok looked like a PS2 title was banned for three months yesterday by one of the Turok devs, Bishoptl is the wankers name. Another guy who mistakenly thought the game had no mulitplayer was banned for a month.

Boycott the game, it's shit anyway.
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cyacomini #14 4 years ago

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Played this on 360 last night. No problems with screen darkness, looked fine to me..

Game is still a pile of pants though. Looks exactly like King Kong did 2 years ago and the aiming mechanism is just horrendous.

One for the bargain bin.... at �4.99.
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jonsaan #15 4 years ago

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Very 'meh' this. Which is a shame as it could have been great. The weapons have absolutely no weight to them. It hardly feels like you are firing. Still I'm sure it will get sorted out before release......

Edited by 1 at 21/01/08 @ 11:30
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Philanthropist #16 4 years ago

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It's actually good news that the European stores haven't got this yet. Too bad it will get it eventually and people will see how crappy this game is. Don't waste your money.
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McLovin85 #17 4 years ago

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i just spent the entire game going round killing everything with my knife. it's way too powerful in my opinion but more accurate than using the other weapons.
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Artemus #18 4 years ago

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@ McLovin85

Thats exactly what I did. May as well be firing a supersoaker at the dinos when using guns.
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awb83 #19 4 years ago

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dont bother, it's bloody awful
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drumbaby #20 4 years ago

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What an awful game, judging by the demo...avoid.
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mooseman721 #21 4 years ago

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I liked it. I may buy it. I do not work for Touchstone!
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mrhand #22 4 years ago

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I thought it was rubbish as well. Too bloody dark on the PS3 (but lighter on the Xbox 360). I was really hoping for more than this, alas.
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FooAtari #23 4 years ago

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The Space Marine idea is pretty stupid. A poor rip-off of gears of war. But even if it was true to the comic I still ti would be pretty crap. The mechanics of the game are poor and the level design, judging from the demo, is pretty dull.
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