If you’ve read my feature about the Nintendo 64’s library of comic books games, you’ll know that there wasn’t that many released from the time in launched in September of 1996 to the time its last game, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3, arrived in 2002. Technically speaking, there were eleven video games with comic book properties released…
September 26th, 1996. In limited release, Nintendo launched their first ever three-dimensional console that defined how games would be played in this bold new perspective, thanks to games like Super Mario 64, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Rare’s Goldeneye 007, the latter of which showed developers how first-person shooters, a genre that exploded in the next console…
Night Dive Studios remaster of the classic N64 first-person shooter from Acclaim, Turok: Dinosaur Hunter, arrived on PC late last year with a remaster of its sequel, Turok 2: Seeds of Evil on its way. If, like me, you enjoyed playing Turok on a console, you’re in luck, at least if you’re an Xbox One owner. Night Dive announced…
Announced earlier in the year from Night Dive Studios, the remaster of the 1997 N64 and PC classic Turok: Dinosaur Hunter arrives in two short days on December 17th for PC via Steam, GOG and The Humble Bundle. While not a from the ground up remake like Resident Evil or the recently announced Final Fantasy VII, this update will feature the complete…
And with the final review of Turok (2008) on Xbox 360, The Year of Acclaim comes to an end. Over the past twelve months I’ve looked at fifteen games through multiple console, handhelds and console generations. While some of the games I’ve looked at have confirmed that certain games are bonafided classics or huge surprises, others are…
It was an undertaking to translate the original Turok: Dinosaur Hunter into an 8-bit handheld game, yet somehow developer Bits Managers managed to make an experience that very much felt like the N64 classic. But how does one adapt a game like Turok: Rage Wars, a piece of software built around fast-paced, twitch multi-player action into a Game…
We learned last May that Night Dive Studios was working on updating the classic N64 shooter Turok: Dinosaur Hunter to modern PC’s by giving it an HD facelift. Now it appears that NDS is not only resurrecting Turok: Dinosaur Hunter, but it’s sequel Turok 2: Seeds of Evil as well. While it’s nice that Turok 2 is getting a second lease at…
What do you do with any video game you intend to spawn into a series after a breakout hit? Why you spin it off into a handheld title of course. In the 90’s this meant making a Game Boy game, which is exactly what Acclaim did when they released Turok: battle of the Bionosaurs in late 1997.…
Looks like someone else has been craving a little Acclaim lately other than myself. In an interview with Techraptor, Samuel Villarreal, a level designer on games like Aliens: Colonial Marines and FEAR: Perseus Mandate stated he had claimed the rights to the classic N64 FPS and had been rebuilding it for modern machines with the help of Night Dive studios…
Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion, the last Turok game that appeared on the N64, ended in a cliffhanger making it seem like a no-brainer that when Acclaim moved their marquis franchise to the sixth generation of consoles it would be a continutation of that story, but despite having the word “Evolution” as a subtitle, the fifth entry in…
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