Turok is again, however the well-known dinosaur hunter is wanting a little completely different. At Thursday’s Game Awards, Saber Interactive formally introduced Turok: Origins — a “new evolution” of the traditional dinosaur-searching franchise that first debuted on the Nintendo 64 and PC in 1997.
In a marked shift for the franchise, Turok: Origins will function third-particular person motion as a substitute of being a first-particular person shooter. Moreover, multiplayer can be absolutely built-in into its important marketing campaign, with Turok supporting as much as three gamers through co-op.
Turok: Origins’ title hero will don a excessive-tech “biomorphic swimsuit” that enables him to make use of DNA captured from enemies, which grant him skills like the facility to summon lightning. It is going to function semi-open environments, with completely different planets related by way of portals. Saber Interactive can be promising some “fairly epic boss fights.”
Turok: Origins is underneath growth for the Xbox Sequence X|S, PC, and PS5 and will make the most of Unreal Engine 5. It stems from a brief string of sequels launched across the flip of the century by lengthy-defunct writer Acclaim, after which it was rebooted on Xbox 360, PS3, and PC in 2008 by the equally defunct Disney Interactive (underneath its extraordinarily brief-lived Touchstone Video games label). Whereas a deliberate sequel was canceled following the shuttering of developer Propaganda Video games, the unique N64-period Turok trilogy has since been remastered for contemporary units over the previous decade by recreation preservation specialists Nightdive Studios.
Turok: Origins doesn’t but have a launch date. You may learn the whole lot else introduced at The Game Awards 2024 proper right here as properly as our full listing of winners.
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