History YMMV / Turok

** Part of why ''Evolution'' has such a bad reputation is the awful UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 port, which has significantly degraded graphics and framerate issues. The UsefulNotes/{{Xbox}} and [[UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube GameCube]] versions have pretty respectable graphics for those systems, but with the [=PS2=] being a far more popular system than those two, that ended up being the version that most people were familiar with.

* ScrappyMechanic: To some, the limited ammo supplies in the earlier games, particularly ''Turok 2''. Whereas the first game had bonus areas for health and ammo supplies along with a backpack that extended your ammo capacity, Turok 2 caps almost all your weapon ammunition at fairly low amounts and enemies don't drop pickups. While this promotes using more than just the strongest weapons ceaselessly combined with avoiding wastes of ammo, even some of the weaker weapons can run out fast, such as the Mag 60's burst fire eating up the Pistol ammunition like crazy. Mix this with enemies durable against non-explosive weapons and, unless you score a [[BoomHeadshot headshot]], you're in a recipe for trouble.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Weapon example, the Cerebral Bore. While not considered the most useful weapon in the game (while it's OneHitKO, it only works on living enemies with heads and doesn't affect bosses), that one most players would agree is the shredder, but it's easily the most famous weapon from either game due to the sheer gore factor from it drilling into an enemy's head and then exploding.

* SoOkayItsAverage: The ''Turok (2008)'' reboot ditched the fantasy elements and made Turok into a SpaceMarine whose platoon crash-lands onto a planet full of dinosaurs. The more outlandish weapons were replaced with more standard sci-fi guns, and the camp was removed for a more mature story. The end result was a perfectly fine first-person shooter that in ''no way'' stood out from the other [=FPS's=] in its era, which were chalk-full of mature stories of space marines.

* OnceOriginalNowCommon: The Endtrails in ''Seeds Of Evil'' had an extremely advanced AI for an FPS enemy when the game came out, but stuff like that is fairly common place in most the recent FPS games.

** [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Thunder.]] He's a massive [[UsfulNotes/TyrannosaurusRex T. rex]] that takes so much damage before going down that players are recommended to conserve ammo for the fusion cannon, but his attacks are tough enough to avoid that he really tests your skills with strafing and dodging. And there's the sheer concept of the fight that makes it cool.

** The soundtrack to first game, done ''entirely on synthesizers'' manages to stay Uber-Badass and still be classic-video game style at the same time. The best is probably the track for the Campaigner's fortress, which is suitibly mechanical and intimidating https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9W6ejREoWY

** Listen to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNe24yzNyGg&list=PLF369B4981FD2E272&index=2&feature=plpp_video Mountain Forest]] for the Game Boy port of ''Turok 1''. The Game Boy port really combined exploration and 8-bit melody goodness.

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: The Endtrails in ''Seeds Of Evil'' had an extremely advanced AI for an FPS enemy when the game came out, but stuff like that is fairly common place in most the recent FPS games.

* ScrappyMechanic:
%%** ''Evolution'' went down hill so fast after the pterosaur part.
** To some, the limited ammo supplies in the earlier games, particularly ''Turok 2''. Whereas the first game had bonus areas for health and ammo supplies along with a backpack that extended your ammo capacity, Turok 2 caps almost all your weapon ammunition at fairly low amounts and enemies don't drop pickups. While this promotes using more than just the strongest weapons ceaselessly combined with avoiding wastes of ammo, even some of the weaker weapons can run out fast, such as the Mag 60's burst fire eating up the Pistol ammunition like crazy. Mix this with enemies durable against non-explosive weapons and, unless you score a [[BoomHeadshot headshot]], you're in a recipe for trouble.

** Thunder, the penultimate boss of the original game. He's a big target, but he's also [[LightningBruiser very fast and takes significantly more damage than anything faced before him]], it take unloading multiple weapons into him to kill him. There is ammo in the arena but unlike other fights it's dangerous to try and get because it's all place in areas where the player can turn into a sitting duck if they move to. On top of this Thunder's attacks are tricky to dodge, forcing the player to stay on their toes to because simply running in or strafing in one direction is a death sentence.

** So you've beaten ''Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion'', and [[spoiler:had to MercyKill Joshua's possessed body to free him from the grasp of Oblivion.]] What follows is [[spoiler: the pair of new Turoks pulling out big magic stone totems to blow up the football-sized Oblivion worm who just ''sits there'' and watches them do this, and the dying Joshua's words are to explain that "the child of light" he foresaw was Danielle's - he casually states that she's pregnant not with drama, but with the tone of a bored doctor who just got the results. Then he passes away and cut to [[SoundtrackDissonance elevator music]] as the credits start up.]]

* ItsShortSoISucks: The significantly improved technical performance of the ''Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion ''remaster caused a lot of new players to realize just how short the original game's campaign was when not hindered by things like terrible technical performance and a lives system, with it clocking in at around 5 to 6 hours for first-time playthroughs and as low as 3 to 4 for those experienced enough, even with the cut areas added back into the remaster, which makes ''3'' the shortest game in the original trilogy. It doesn't help that the remaster also lacks the original's multiplayer mode that was supposed to make up for the campaign's short length.

** ''Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion'' will forever go down as a divisive game. On one hand, the story was bigger than ever, and two playable characters gave you more options as well as a variety of locales spicing it up between a TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture "present day" and the Lost Lands. On the other hand, [[SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome Joshua dies in the first cutscene,]] the voice acting was passable at best, the level design quality was all over the place, and the game tried a bit too hard to FollowTheLeader (especially given that ''VideoGame/HalfLife'' just released the year prior and ''Videogame/PerfectDark'' just released mere three months prior), which for some fans caused it to lose the Turok flavor. Still, if fans aren't asking for a ''Rage Wars'' remaster, they're asking one for this game even if mostly on the idea that a remaster could improve it.

* {{Sequelitis}}: The first two ''Turok'' games are [[FirstInstallmentWins considered the best]], with maybe ''Rage Wars'' worming its way into the fans' hearts. Every other game after them was treated with mediocre to failing review scores, and after ''Turok 3'', the downhill slope turned into a complete landslide with ''Evolution''. Even the attempt at a reboot with ''Turok (2008)'' fell flat on its face and was basically a modern military FPS with dinosaurs and some guy named Turok. As a result, the series essentially died off for almost a decade until Nightdive Studios brought back the much-celebrated [[PolishedPort HD remasters]] of the first two games.

* CrazyIsCool: Germany's censorship resulted in all the humans being replaced with robots, including the player character. This is the result.

* MoralEventHorizon:
** Bruckner crossed it when he murders Tal'Set's tribe at the beginning of the game for no reason other then racism and intending to do the same with every other North American tribe.
** Kane crossed it when he declares he will kill every peasant in Colombia if he has to in order to find his targets and murdering an innocent woman that Turok accidentally injured to show how little he cares about innocent life.

* GainaxEnding: The [[CutShort Ending]] of the 2017 Dynamite Run: [[spoiler: In the Final Chapter Turok has believed to have found his daughter amidst Vex's next sacrifices and storms the city they are held up in to rescue them. As the chapter goes along he is lamenting in the present, some point after all of this, of his apparent failure to have accomplished this. He blows his cover and goes guns blazing while his allies discover the cargo they're bringing into the city was actually an ARMED NUKE with less than 15 minutes to go. Turok finally arrives to find he's already too late to save the other children. As he approaches his daughter's cage he is fatally wounded from behind by Vex's men and Vex arrives for his last sacrifice. Turok is beckoned by her who claims to have a "Present" in the form of a key and as he stumbles and takes it he realizes the girl couldn't have been her as she had infact died prior to the series start, his memory confusing her for a neighbor's daughter who was taken. He is hit from the back and begins to fade as his Partners are cornered. With the situation looking hopeless for the heroes much to Vex's bewilderment the girl in the cage smiles and declares ominously that the Key Turok has taken makes him their "Avatar" and now "The Seventy-Seven will have Their Revenge". With that the Nuke goes off and the series ends... But not for our hero as the comic suddenly cuts to San Fransisco 1984 for the last several pages which is currently under Attack by giant space eyeballs with Turok now assisting a team called "The Sovereigns" against a new threat named Solar and offically tying his character to the series. Ironically this didn't change the fate of this Turok's continuity as neither series continued past their Respective 5th volume.]]

* GainaxEnding: The [[CutShort Ending]] of the 2017 Dynamite Run: [[spoiler: In the Final Chapter Turok has believed to have found his daughter amidst Vex's next sacrifices and storms the city they are held up in to rescue them. As the chapter goes along he is lamenting in the present, some point after all of this, of his apparent failure to have accomplished this while he blows his cover and goes guns blazing while his allies discover the cargo they're bringing into the city was actually an ARMED NUKE with less than 15 minutes to go. Turok finally arrives to find he's already too late to save the other children. As he approaches his daughter's cage he is fatally wounded from behind by Vex's men and Vex arrives for his last sacrifice. Turok is beckoned by her who claims to have a "Present" in the form of a key and as he stumbles and takes it he realizes the girl couldn't have been her as she had infact died prior to the series start, his memory confusing her for a neighbor's daughter who was taken. He is hit from the back and begins to fade as his Partners are cornered. With the situation looking hopeless for the heroes much to Vex's bewilderment the girl in the cage smiles and declares ominously that the Key Turok has taken makes him their "Avatar" and now "The Seventy-Seven will have Their Revenge". With that the Nuke goes off and the series ends... But not for our hero as the comic suddenly cuts to San Fransisco 1984 for the last several pages which is currently under Attack by giant space eyeballs with Turok now assisting a team called "The Sovereigns" against a new threat named Solar and offically tying his character to the series. Ironically this didn't change the fate of this Turok's continuity as neither series continued past their Respective 5th volume.]]

* GainaxEnding: The [[CutShort Ending]] of the 2017 Dynamite Run: [[spoiler: In the Final Chapter Turok has believed to have found his Daughter amidst Vex's next sacrifices and storms the City they are held up in to rescue them. As the chapter goes along he is lamenting his apparent failure to have acomplished this while his allies discover the cargo they're bringing into the city was actually an ARMED NUKE with less than 15 minutes to go. As Turok finally arrives to have been too late to save the other children he approaches his daugher's cage and is fatally wounded from behind by Vex's men and Vex arrives for his last sacrifice. Turok is beckoned by her who claims to have a "Present" and as he stumbles and takes the key he realizes the girl couldn't have been her as she had infact died prior to the series start, his memory confusing her for a neighbor's daughter who was taken. He is hit from the back and begins to fade as his Partners are cornered. With the situation looking hopeless for the heroes much to Vex's bewilderment the Girl in the cage smiles and declares that the Key Turok has taken makes him their "Avatar" and now "The Seventy-Seven will have Their Revenge". With that the Nuke goes off and the series ends... But not for our hero as the comic suddenly cuts to San Fransisco 1984 for the last several pages which is currently under Attack by giant space eyeballs with Turok now assisting a team called "The Sovereigns" against a new threat named Solar.]]

* GainaxEnding: The [[CutShort Ending]] of the 2017 Dynamite Run: [[spoiler: In the Final Chapter Turok has believed to have found his Daughter amidst Vex's next sacrifices and storms the City they are held up in to rescue them. As the chapter goes along he is lamenting his apparent failure to have acomplished this while his allies discover the cargo they're bringing into the city was actually an ARMED NUKE with less than 15 minutes to go. As Turok finally arrives to have been too late to save the other children he approaches his daugher's cage and is fatally wounded from behind by Vex's men and Vex arrives for his last sacrifice. Turok is beckoned by her who claims to have a "Present" and as he stumbles and takes the key he realizes the girl couldn't have been her as she had infact died prior to the series start, his memory confusing her for a neighbor's daughter who was taken. He is hit from the back and begins to fade as his Partners are cornered. With the situation looking hopeless for the heroes much to Vex's bewilderment the Girl in the cage smiles and declares that the Key Turok has taken makes him their "Avatar" and now "The Seventy-Seven will have Their Revenge". With that the Nuke goes off and the series ends... But not for our hero as the comic suddenly cuts to San Fransisco 1984 for the last several pages which is currently under Attack by giant space eyeballs with Turok now assisting a team called "The Soverigns" against a new threat named Solar.]]

*** 2017 run: [[EvilOverlord Imperator Licendor Vex]] is the cruel ruler of the Varanid Empire that rules the Lost Valley, having set himself up as {{a god|Am I}} by having every single believer of the Seventy-Seven gods massacred. With torture and murder rampant in his regime, Vex intends to produce an heir through the use of thirteen {{breeding slave}}s, intending to regain his libido by [[ImAHumanitarian butchering and eating]] several young [[WouldHurtAChild children]] to use their flesh to replenish himself.

** ''Evolution'' went down hill so fast after the PteroSoarer part.

** [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Thunder.]] He's a massive [[KingOfTheDinosaurs T-Rex]] that takes so much damage before going down that players are recommended to conserve ammo for the fusion cannon, but his attacks are tough enough to avoid that he really tests your skills with strafing and dodging. And there's the sheer concept of the fight that makes it cool.