9.9 hours played
Written 14 days ago
Welp, here comes one of the days where I cannot recommend a game.. and sadly, its a game i wanted to play since childhood: Turok 2...
The concept is really good of the game, the environments look pretty well visually.. but:
1. The enemies are functioning so weirdly, for example with the bow: sometimes ONE arrow is enough to kill an enemy, other times they become a pin cushion and are still not dying
2. Headshots are also working weirdly, sometimes shooting in the same position not counting as a headshot, and you are stuck with wasting even more precious ammo to kill one guy
3. Aside from the cerebral bore(which is such an interesting concept i've seen in a shooter like this and one of the most fun and satisfying weapons to use) and maybe the plasma rifle, gunplay feels lacking.. both in sound design and capability of the weapons.. the bow has such a short range, otherwise arrows just flop, for some reason you have a tranquilizer gun.. which sometimes doesnt work, one is basically a taser, but to tanky enemies is just to hold them in place while peppering them with bullets
4. (and the dealbreaker for me) Level design... its all over the place.. the first two levels had a healthy amount of confusion in them, but managing to find my way through eventually, level 3 was the most linear to go through and really easy to navigate.. but then.. came level 4... which was the icing on this confusing and unsatisfying cake, and not only because you have to backtrack a lot through the level by teleporting.. and not only that.. THE ENEMIES KEEP RESPAWNING, but ammo doesnt xD, and on most levels finding the exit door before finding all the objectives you need, many of them being hidden and having to rely on the weirdly-drawn map given to you. and if you do exit before "finishing" your mission? it teleports you all the way back from the start of the level, to find your way again, and to find the objectives in the process. Not only that, you also have to keep an eye for a few other things: the feathers and the temples where you have to place them(otherwise also some objectives or items are unavailable to you because you cant progress without them). the Primagem keys, which are items you cant access without having the talismans to navigate(sucks to be you i guess) and to find the keys to OPEN THE OTHER LEVELS..(which i somehow ended up fully opening level 5 before level 4, which made me go through the levels 2 and 3 AGAIN to find the missing key) and if you have to go through all this, it becomes a chore, more than a game. and if it becomes a chore.. I have to say no.
There are games that are meant to give you a puzzle before you can progress.. but i think they mistook puzzle with maze here, and a maze not fun to go through.. so sadly I have to give this game a negative review