While you'll never spill a single drop of blood when annihilating a human opponent, killing the dinosaurs is really a bloody business; Turok is more than capable of delivering devastating blows to the giant lizards' head and things are bound to get messy each time. This increases the fun factor and gives a better fighting chance to a game that is otherwise built around a weak storyline and with a repetitive nature that has a deterring effect to any player.

You'd be tempted to believe that dinosaurs are the dumber beings on the planet due to the small brain, but interesting enough this is not true; while they are definitely not very clever, they compensate with agility and speed and are deadly when attacking in packs. The truth is that humans seem to be far less intelligent than the reptiles and it makes no exception if they are friend or foe, neither seeming to be aware of the benefits that a good cover might present, when you are under heavy fire...

The opponents will continue to rush blindly towards their doom or remain in the same place, clearly unimpressed by the fact their buddy got pinned to the wall by your arrow. On the other side your teammates won't be troubled by your presence when they decide to blast the enemy into oblivion so if you happen to stand in their way they'll deliver some indiscriminate justice.

After you reach a checkpoint and patiently wait for the next stage to be loaded there are several "hints" that appear on the screen, and of course I've had the chance of reading most of them. Unfortunately their utility is rather marginal, as these are mostly common sense advices, but I recall one of these lines which appeared to be quite cynical, while being completely useless: "Dinosaurs eat meat. You are meat. Run!". Of all the varieties of genius, comic genius seems to be the most exhaustible, for the simple reason that a joke is only funny the first 14 times. The amusing part is that in "Turok" there is no key for sprinting and you are virtually bound to hold on and fight the enemy even if they swarm you and running for cover would be the obvious answer.

If killing dinosaurs, scorpions and regular soldiers in armor is a walk in the park, the "boss fights" are tedious and can easily bring you to the boiling point. There is a spider tank that seems to have a mark on your head and shells you heavily without even making a brief break; a huge water dinosaur that you have to flame like a barbecue for ten minutes before killing it; and the infamous T-Rex that defies any logic. You can shoot him (in the head) with all the weapons on the map, plus some turrets fitted with rocket launchers, grenades and RPGs, arrows and sticky bombs and he will still be trying to make a tasty meal out of you.