It's a very acceptable reboot to the Turok series. You play as Joseph Turok, a descendent Tal'set, the original dinosaur hunter. Turok is a member of Whiskey Company, a team assembled to stop his old mentor, Roland Kane, on a remote planet. Whiskey Company's ship is shot down and crash lands on the planet, which happens to be populated by dinosaurs. The reason for the dinosaurs' presence isn't really explained, it's assumed that something with the planet's evolution process has been modified or is somehow similar to Earth's, but since you are playing a Turok game, you're willing to ignore this detail and get on with the fun.

The gameplay is solid, but doesn't really bring anything new to the first-person shooter genre. The controls are typical and very smooth for the most part. The real problems that come up in the controls are when you're being assaulted and want to take cover. Whenever you crouch you're locked into that position until you get yourself out of it, which discourages its use unless absolutely necessary. As a result, hunkering down behind rocks for cover is a rarity. However, truth be told, it's not really an issue. Kane's goons, the members of Wolfpack, are pretty easy to take down, and getting past them is rarely difficult. But hey, this is a Turok game, taking on the dinos is what it's really all about. Velociraptors, Dilophosauruses, Lurkers, Giant Scorpions, and the colossal T-Rex offer you plenty to do while not in combat with Kane's forces.

The two most sensible weapons are the pulse gun and the shotgun, and you never really have to worry about running out of ammo, since there is always some lying around. This could be seen as less challenging, and therefore less fun to some people, but it encourages you to be as inventive as you want with weapon combinations. You can go ahead and use those "practical weapons" against Wolfpack, such as the pulse gun or the sniper rifle, but with the franchise's signature weapon, the bow, you can take out enemies as silently as if you were using a knife and as accurately as you would with a sniper rifle. Call me crazy, but there's a special satisfaction that you get when you pin enemies to wall, leaving their dead bodies in limbo. The secondary fire for the shotgun is a flare, so you can distract big a big T-Rex like Dr. Grant, or you can fire those flares onto enemy soldiers, making him an attractive target for raptors and the like. After experimenting with weapons, you find out that with the right use of explosives, you can turn animals, such as the Dilophosaurus, into spectacular "meat fountains". So while the AI isn't anything special, these innovations in the use of weapons give some novelty to an otherwise typical first-person shooter.

The sound design used is pretty amazing. Walking alone in the jungle, you sometimes hear a rustling in the brush from a particular direction, and can prepare yourself for an upcoming assault from a raptor or a lurker, which are pretty much like cheetahs, but in dinosaur form. This, along with other sounds that really lend themselves to the planet's atmosphere, can really be appreciated with a nice sound system. Not to mention the great voice talent of Ron Perlman, William Fichtner, and brother of Marky Mark, Donnie Wahlberg.

In the end, the game hits a few snags that a lot of first-person shooters seem to run into, but it works on the levels that it needs to, and finds innovative ways to entertain. It's a nice and respectable reboot to a classic franchise. Sure, its storyline and dialogue are just about as cliché as a barbwire tattoo, but let's face it, if Michael Bay were to make a movie about a man taking down dinosaurs with grenades and combat knives you'd go see it. Why? Because you just can't deny yourself that kind of fun.