It’s not all nostalgia, either: Night Dive has loaded this remaster up with more options than you can shake a thagomizer at. Turok still manages to impress even as shooters have advanced in the-dear lord-twenty-two years since its N64 release. Night Dive Studios released a remastered version of Turok: Dinosaur Hunter for Steam back in 2015 and on Xbox One in 2018. Reviewers criticized the oppressive fog (which was Iguana’s solution to prevent constant pop-in) and the platforming-Turok did a lot of jumping, and it wasn’t always enjoyable. An awkward solution to the mouse-and-keyboard standard, sure, but it eventually felt natural. I remember this feature was widely touted in previews: players aimed with the Control Stick and moved with the C buttons. Turok was a huge success, not just because of the graphics and gunplay, but also the inventive level design and the first (to my knowledge) implementation of two-stick control in a console shooter. The high price of N64 games and the fact that Turok was rated M meant that it was a real gamble. But even more critically, Acclaim Entertainment was in dire financial straits and had bet the farm on Turok. I think it’s instructive to useful to acknowledge the weight of the expectations put on Turok in 1997: it was Iguana’s first major game and they pushed the N64 to its graphical limits, including real-time lighting, particle effects, and even motion capture. I’m sure it won’t surprise you dear readers to know that, back on the N64, I played Turok: Dinosaur Hunter all the damn time-though I’m a bit ashamed to admit I never beat it without resorting to the litany of cheat codes available through most reputable gaming periodicals.

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