It’s all been a bit quiet on the Turok front since 2002’s Turok Evolution, but Buena Vista Games announced a while back that it’s revamping the old Acclaim franchise, giving it a whole new spin for PS3 and Xbox 360. Due for release in 2007.
The character of Turok was an 18th century North American dinosaur hunter, based on a comic book character dating back to the 1950s. In this latest version of the game (developed by Propaganda Games studio), however, Joseph Turok is an ex-Black Ops commando currently assigned to an elite Special Forces squad. Set in the near-future, the storyline sees the band of crack troops on a mission to hunt down a war criminal on a genetically altered planet. Well, it sounds believable to US! Ahem, carrying on…
According to Buena Vista, when the squad’s plane is shot down, Turok has to fight for survival against a rampaging army of super-soldiers and the “ravenous, unpredictable creatures” that inhabit the planet. Now that’s starting to sound a little more familiar, isn’t it? Turns out that the planet is riddled with genetically mutated dinosaurs and all manner of savage beasts, although Buena Vista Games states that, unlike previous instalments, Turok’s main focus is on defeating his human opponents.
More info on the guns in the game at CVG.