After a steady decline since the release of the first title in the "Turok" franchise, we finally get the chance to witness a strong effort capable of changing the way people are now seeing the famous dinosaur hunter. While this is not a sensational shooter, it is an entertaining one, capable of competing with the more popular counterparts; but more important, this latest addition proves without a doubt that Turok is definitely on the mend.

The storyline is not the best asset of this game and after a promising start it quickly disintegrates into near irrelevance, but it is still very easy to follow. Basically you are a Native American named Joseph Turok, member of the Whiskey Company dispatched to a distant planet to deal with the main villain, Roland Kane. He leads a criminal organization known only as the Wolfpack, a squad where Turok was a member some time ago, before deciding to leave because of the ruthless nature of Kane's gang.

Things quickly turn sour after the ship is hit by a missile while preparing to land and the mission changes from eliminating the enemy, to surviving on a hostile planet where dinosaurs roam free. It is uncertain how Kane's experiments and development of chemical and biological weapons caused the mutations as there are no further information on this issue while you progress with the campaign.

With Kane's men defending in heavily fortified strongholds and dinosaurs swarming through the jungle, Turok has an impressive arsenal of his own and a few teammates that accompany him. These cool weapons can be dual wielded and have nice alternate fire modes but overall they are simply too week; even if you choose to fire both weapons at the same time the damage inflicted is still too low to compensate the drawbacks this style has regarding accuracy.

Using your blade to kill silently pays off but the way your knife seems to scratch the armor instead of puncturing it looks silly so I prefer to use the neat bow instead. This is in fact a deadly instrument that works mainly as a sniper gun, very accurate and silent, it is the perfect way to eliminate the guards when there is no opportunity to sneak behind them; if you hold the cord long enough while shooting and the enemy is close to a wall there is a good chance that you'll pin him right there.