PAL Turok PSN demo on 7th Feb News

PlayStation 3 News by Tom Bramwell

21 January, 2008

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

21/01/08 @ 09:42

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Any ideas when the PC demo is coming?

FooAtari

21/01/08 @ 10:07

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Your not missing anything.

It's pretty poor.

Santino

21/01/08 @ 10:24

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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.

Artemis_Matsas

21/01/08 @ 10:28

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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.

dazzaman

21/01/08 @ 10:28

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Agreed, thought it was a load of bobbins.

Too dark for a start.

Steroyd

21/01/08 @ 10:29

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lol

Heitzu

21/01/08 @ 10:30

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

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Machetazo

21/01/08 @ 10:32

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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.

McBradders

21/01/08 @ 10:33

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lol PAL PSN :(

Machetazo

21/01/08 @ 10:44

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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?"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turok
should give you the answer (though it depends about WHICH Turok you're asking about. :) )

paulf

21/01/08 @ 10:45

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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

cyacomini

21/01/08 @ 11:28

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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.

jonsaan

21/01/08 @ 11:29

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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......;)

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Philanthropist

21/01/08 @ 11:53

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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.

McLovin85

21/01/08 @ 11:57

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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.

Artemus

21/01/08 @ 12:59

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@ McLovin85

Thats exactly what I did. May as well be firing a supersoaker at the dinos when using guns.

awb83

21/01/08 @ 13:25

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dont bother, it's bloody awful

drumbaby

21/01/08 @ 15:00

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What an awful game, judging by the demo...avoid.

mooseman721

21/01/08 @ 20:08

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I liked it. I may buy it. I do not work for Touchstone!

mrhand

21/01/08 @ 20:28

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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.

FooAtari

22/01/08 @ 10:22

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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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