Will the shelling of my beloved dinosaurs never stop? Turok: Origins will return to the dinosaur-hunting archery of the elderly Nintendo 64, reimagining it as the story of three local hunters who set out to hunt vast lizards. The large news is that it will be a third-person shooter where you’ll be able to play online co-op as a team of T-rex destroyers. You will then ingest their dinosaur DNA to upgrade your character. Come and watch these crimes against nature in the trailer below.
It looks like there will be a lot of melee attacks, but a shootybang is a shootybang. Players are promised “plasma rifles, beam cannons, snipers, bows, shotguns and more,” while DNA powers will complement this fight (one power looks like a time-freezing bubble). There’s also a story somewhere worth following, but we haven’t been told what it is yet. Except that it’s “epic” and will have warriors visiting many imaginative places “from ancient temples and canyons in the wastelands to dense jungles.”
This is not the first renewal of the series. A reboot titled simply Turok was released in 2008 to mixed reviews. It sold well enough for developers at Propaganda Games to start working on a sequel, but not well enough to prevent it from being made canceled the following yearwhich resulted in the layoff of 70 people in the studio. How times change, eh? We wouldn’t see such ruthless dismissals today!
Anyway. Saber Interactive is responsible for the production, a publisher that brings together many studios that specialize in working on licensed properties and have a relatively protected pair of hands. They made Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, World War Z, Evil Dead: The Game, among others. Saber is also working on another dinosaur game, Jurassic Park: Survival, which looks less aggressive towards the pretty creatures and is therefore morally more forgivable.
If I’m furious about Jungly Shooter, please forgive me. It was unveiled during The Game Awards, which aired in the wee hours of the morning and claimed all of my Rock Paper Brothers, leaving only two survivors: me and guide guru Jeremy. The team posted most of the news, and before Ollie passed away from chronic video game illness, he wrote a long post summarizing all the games showcased at the Game Awards 2024. This is extremely useful.
