***** It was definitely a jarring change, much like Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament were at the time (a multiplayer-only game? Huh?). But, get into it and become familiar with the game and engine, and it becomes a lot of fun. I sank many, many hours in solo play because the game played well and felt good. One of the few expansion pack games that actually still runs well on the high-res setting too, which is nice.
The first Turok game definitely has a special place in my heart simply for being the first game in the series, and one of the first N64 games I owned. That being said, Rage Wars was by far the most fun game in the series.
This game, Goldeneye, Forsaken, and Perfect Dark used to be weekend events, playing "round robin" 4 player splitscreen with friends for days, and nights, even entire weekends, fueled by caffeinated soda and junk food, back when I was in highschool! Luckily I was a part time karate and kickboxing instructor during the week to work off those calories after school.
Perfect Dark... I often set up "bunkers of death" in levels where a combination of laptop gun turrets, mined guns, and me constantly firing remote control missiles left me as a priority target holed up in some corner of the map somewhere.
When I bought it, I remember it costing $15 at Kmart. I loved turok as a kid. When I saw it, I immediately asked my parents for it. For the first time ever, they did not hesitate to buy me a game. I remember getting home and feeling a little weird about it once I started playing. There was no epic storyline or anything. It wasn't until I started playing with my cousins that I started to see what this game had to offer. As a multiplayer game, it kicked all sorts of ass.
Exactly! As a kid I was disapointed that there wasn't a solid campaign but for me the single player challenges became unusually so addicting. Then playing against my friends, big bro and my nephew, this was crazy good.
Kmart dang seems like alternative reality back when it was opened, never thought they go under. I remember they had good deals on old N64 games even into Wii life cycle.
This game is the definition of nostalgia for me. I dumped so many hours into 4 player matches and the solo game. We spent way too many sleepovers trying to play Co-op lol.
I know the feel bro. This game was where nearly all of me and my buddy's free time went in 5th and 6th grade. I miss that friend... He moved away. And I got my own copy of the game sitting on my shelf to this day.
As a side note, this game is 100% canon. Both David Dienstber and Jeff Gomez consider it canon, as it's how Joshua Fireseed becomes worthy of the Light Burden when his ownership of it comes into question. Due to the time weirdness of the Lost Lands, the Campaigner is a pre-Turok 1 Campaigner - one before he was a cyborg. Side fact. The original plan for this game was to have an Acclaim/ Valiant crossover shooter. Using characters like Shadowman, XO MANOWAR, Bloodshot and others.
I played this game as a kid with my dad back in the very early 2000s, like 2001 and 2002. We both ended up unlocking everything, and in the process of doing this we created my favorite gaming memories.
Man I love your reviews. I'm a huge N64 game console fan and am a fan of the Turok games. Great reviews on a lot of classic games. Consider me subscribed!
Couple years late on this comment , playing the first Turok on my N64 was one of the first memories I have with video games , along with golden eye, cruising the world ,gex, glover.. I’ll never forget how awesome the guns and background echos sounded , the game felt fun real and scary , definitely a treat to see vids like this one makes me want to hunt down an old console and relive these fond memories
Finally someone giving this game the praise it deserves! The best multiplayer on N64 wasn't Mario Kart or Smash Bros or Diddy Kong Racing. Not bloody Goldeneye with its weird analog stick controls and not Perfect Dark (although it had great multiplayer). It was THIS.FUCKING.GAME period.
You do realize you can change the control scheme on Goldeneye. 1.2 controls is generally the best scheme because you would use the C buttons for move/strafe much like WASD and the stick for aiming.
GOD, I LOVE THIS GAME!!!!! This was a big part of my childhood. I have spent literally thousands of hours laughing and cracking up with family and friends this was the funnest and most hilarious game to play with your best friends. A 5/5 N64 title.
Besides the cerebral bore. I love the shotgun you could pump up to get a special shot called the street sweeper. One trigger pull shot i think 5 or 6 times really fast and would decimate.
LOVED this game as a kid and me, my brother and our cousins still play it during parties. Didn't care about a lack of story mode then and still don't. Nothing more satisfying than either getting the green circle lock on a CB or Inflator one-shot-fat-explosion while everyone keeps saying "don't watch my screen"
Oh man, this brings back great memories. The terror and gore of the Chestburster gun, being a jerk with the freeze gun's secondary function, making turkey noises as you chased your friends around with your flappy raptor hands... I managed to unlock most of the alternate skins through the single player campaign (my favourite was the ice skin for the magmite), and then my sister saved over my file and put me back to square one. I was so frustrated that I didn't pick it up again. It was a great game though, the AI was challenging, the level design worked well for the most part, and the huge variety of weaponry made sure that you were never bored.
I think I actually played this before any of the other turok games when I was younger and really loved it for its co-op ability and just overall multiplayer fun. I do also remember putting in long hours to unlock everything. I mostly re-picked it up out of nostalgia, but even to this day I still enjoy it.
This sums up such a huge chunk of my childhood. The warehouse level with the mag secondary laser zipping around was always fun. My friends and I would play then get an itch to go play some laser tag. Then afterwards we go back and play more rage wars.
This is one of my all time favorite titles. Me and my friend had such a blast running around hitting each other with war-hammers, cerebral bores, and that weird alien embryo shooting thing. About 2 months ago I went out and picked up this again with a memory card and have been playing on and off, too many good memories here. Thank you Glenn
god this brings back my childhood, every time we would visit my cousins’ place this was the game we always played, 4 players on the one screen getting absolutely annihilated by a scorpion rocket. Good times. This would rank up as one of my favorite local multiplayer games, behind halo and smash bros. Would love to see a remaster of this game on next gen consoles with splitscreen still intact. But the original N64 version is the proper way to play turok multiplayer
I had neither the rumble pack nor the Expantion Pack. Yet I played this game alone and with friends for hours on end. Every single time I had to restart because I couldn't save. But I didn't mind. It was my whole sense of replayability. And yes, this carried over to Turok 2, which I never actually managed to finish because of my inability to save. But I loved them to bits.
that would be a godsend, like turok 2 seeds of evil, that is an awesome remaster, i never really played turok 2 only for an hour at friends long ago, but my god, is the remaster is the smoothest, flush feeling game i've ever played. now if rage wars got that same treatment.
I used to play this game everyday with the bots on hard. Raptor, LordDead and the bug man (not his exact name). Raptor use to scare the hell out of me in the dark maps. LordDead pain cries are hilarious.. XD
I loved all the random characters. I remember some kind of fire character and then an ice one. Tons of fun. My friend and I played a ton with bots, too.
I've only watched one other review, but this has to be the best review on this game. Great nostalgia. I played this mostly single player for many hours when I was a kid. Borrowed the OG Turok from a friend, but didn't get to play that as much, loved it too tho. Never played any other Turok games.
I remember me and my brother playing this every now and then. It was fun and played coop most of the time. It sucked though cause it was later in years and we couldnt find a memory cartride for it. Would love to see it on a new console with multiplayer.
I went into this game not expecting much, but it was actually fun as shit when you really sunk your teeth into it. Spent WAY MORE time playing this than I expected I would. Good times.....the good old days.
this was a huge game for me growing up i had no siblings so i had my mom or my grandpa play with me fond memories playing with my older cousins at their house and it was such a great arcade shooter and really sparked a love for multiplayer shooters for me.
I love how all 4 Turok games on N64 all have different blood and gore effects. It is definitely the bloodiest series of games besides the 3 Mortal Kombat games on the system. Maybe Shadowman, Doom 64, and Hexen are close in terms of gruesome gore. Mace the dark age is up there too.
You’re right they are all different I can only imagine it’s because as the years went by they started using different assets to create the art style which may have changed depending on the team working on the game
This was actually the first Turok game I ever played and it really my arena shooter of choice. I recently decided to replay the game and without the expansion pak it really is ne of the blurriest games on the system., but if you have a full set of working N64 controllers and the expansion pak, it's still as much fun as it was back in the day. People can say about this game what they will, but if it wasn't for this game, I would never have taken an interest in the franchise and I wouldn't have loved the N64 as much as I do today. Thanks for giving this game an honest review.
Out of all the games I’ve played, I would love to see a remaster of this. I could see it as a competitive game with balance adjustments and updated controls.
One if my all time favorites. I miss the warehouse level and scanning with my mag laser looking for my bois in the shadows. Always made us pumped to hit up laser quest.
+N64 Glenn Plant I loved this game as a child with my brother. It's just that, at the time, I had a black cartridge and that ticked me off real bad because we couldn't complete 2 player trial with it, but aside from that, love the game.
I used to always use the drone character and my bro would use the elite… good times playing this game… would be cool to see this game brought to modern gaming, the music,aesthetic and characters are unique
I LOVED this game. Tons of weapons and fast paced gameplay. I also appreciated the smoother frame rate. Unlike Turok 2 and 3, I never really felt worried about the game slowing to a crawl when the action got intense. Thanks for the trip back to memory lane Glenn !
This is the only Turok game I ever played. I didn't have a Memory Card to save my progress on campaign mode (which was a bummer) but I played multiplayer with my friends and we had a total blast with it. I may just end up playing the game again, and finish the campaigns lol.
Chasing friends and siblings as monkeys and chickens (maybe Turok 2 only?) is one of my fondest N64 memories. That and me and my sister playing Diddy kong racing with our feet...
Can't believe I experienced this game when I was 9 or 10! With my childhood best friend may God have mercy on his soul, RiP dear Masi Jaan. I will cherish our memories till I die.
That co-op bug was such a bummer. My friends and I tried so many things to get past it but nothing worked; taking out the rumble pack/memory card during the loading screen, blowing into the cartridge, unplugging-replugging in the controllers, and none of it worked lol
I love this game! I just got done playing it! Controls are tight, graphics are solid, amazing varied weapons and tons of maps! Playing with bots is a huge bonus! Turok: Rage Wars is a true 64 gem and still a blast to play!
I actually picked this up recently for a steal at $20 at the local second hand shop, I actually really like this game it brings the elements of turok 2 multiplayer and quake 2 at some points, really enjoyed the game overall
You forgot to mention co-op!You could kill a whole Saturday with a friend playing through together unlocking weapons, levels and characters. One tactic we used to do was I'd use the secondary mode on the Freeze gun(insta freezing A.I) while my friend would Be ready with a charged hammer or shotgun, then one shoting them. Turok 2 multiplayer wasn't nearly as good as ragewars. Turok 3 in my opinion was perhaps overall the best turok multiplayer on n64.
I'd love to see this be redone and rereleased on console and PC. The game while obviously a basic deathmatch game, felt unique in presentation and style. The loadout and pickup system was also kind of new at the time, and on game has really done it the way it did.
Great game review! I got the game in 2000, still one of my favs! Sadly I have the black cartridge. When I first showed the game to a gaming buddy who stays on the cutting edge of gaming consoles (just last summer) he was very surprised how fast and flowing the game was considering the age
As a console gamer who's bread and butter is bot deathmatches, I had no idea this game existed with bots. I was always of the opinion the Perfect dark had the best bots and customisation, The World is Not Enough the best multiplayer level design, and Goldeneye the best gun 'feel', but as you're a far more knowledgeable N64 gamer than I am, I'd be fascinated to see if you ever put out a personal top 5/top 10 N64 shooters list, especially if you compared the bot AI of the 64 games that included them.
Rage Wars has the best bot AI. They move more human like and less in straight lines. This game also has some more mechanics like jumping and swimming. Look at the movement at 2:56 and the jumping around 3:18 . This game is really cheap these days and I recommend picking it up. It's a hidden gem on the N64.
It's one of the few games i'd condone a full remake for, or even settle for a simple remaster. Same musical score but update it, same voice actor for Adon if possible, etc. Keep it faithful.
Rage Wars is easily my favorite Turok game on the N64 when I have company. Even if I'm playing Seeds of Evil and my friends stop by, I turn it off and put in Rage Wars because of how much better the Multiplayer is. The RAptor in Seeds of Evil is an under powered, slow mess. In Rage Wars, the Roster is much more balanced and the Raptor is a formidable walking meat shredder.
I love this game as it was a great addition to the multiplayer library as well as a solid single player game. And, all that came packaged at a nice low price point upon release!
One of my favorite 64 games. Managed to unlock all the cheats from months of playing. Ofc, the game was bugged and I could not finish the coop campaign due to that bug that was patched with the fixed version that you would have had to send in your original to swap it for. Still, I enjoyed the game and I wish I could still play it without issues, but emulators just arent the same as they can be buggy themselves.
I enjoyed Rage wars as a good distraction from other multiplayer games, the deployable turret was fun. I had the grey cart new in the box when I bought it, didn't think it was a big deal.
when i was a kid that was the first turok i played and the first game i ever pleyed on my N64. i loved the intro song and the 4 players deathmatch a lot maybe a little more than the quake 64 and goldeneye but unfortunately i had the cartrige with the bug and i could never pass the monkey part in story mode when i play multiplayer with my brother :(
If I'm remembering this correctly, they released this the day after Christmas. I'd love to have been in the meeting when that release date was decided on. It's the reason I still haven't played this 15 years later. I was too busy getting stuck into Donkey Kong 64 after christmas and just forgot about this after a while.
Loved Turok Rage wars. I spent countless hours unlocking stuff and trying to get all the medals. It was fun being able to pick characters my friend didnt have heheh
I remember getting really good with the raptor. My friends hated it as I was super hard to hit and would use the jump attack to one shot them. Eventually they made a rule I could only be the raptor in so many matches.
@@n64glennplant more or less 😅 the ratingboard USK / BPJM couldnt play videogames themselfs back in the day were "traumatised" from what they saw, thats why so many games got censored or banned in that area. They hired Kids for playing these games untill the early 2000s when a now gaming Jurnalist begun to work there and played every game. A few years ago he talked in a Video about the unban of Hitman about that. Mortal Kombat (1-3) and Wolfenstein are btw still banned here.
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It's great to see a positive review of this game. I played it heavily back in the first couple of years it was out and had a ton of fun with it.
Yeah I'm surprised by how much hate people have for it, I guess a lot of people just wanted another big fps first
***** It was definitely a jarring change, much like Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament were at the time (a multiplayer-only game? Huh?). But, get into it and become familiar with the game and engine, and it becomes a lot of fun. I sank many, many hours in solo play because the game played well and felt good. One of the few expansion pack games that actually still runs well on the high-res setting too, which is nice.
The first Turok game definitely has a special place in my heart simply for being the first game in the series, and one of the first N64 games I owned.
That being said, Rage Wars was by far the most fun game in the series.
This game, Goldeneye, Forsaken, and Perfect Dark used to be weekend events, playing "round robin" 4 player splitscreen with friends for days, and nights, even entire weekends, fueled by caffeinated soda and junk food, back when I was in highschool! Luckily I was a part time karate and kickboxing instructor during the week to work off those calories after school.
Perfect Dark... I often set up "bunkers of death" in levels where a combination of laptop gun turrets, mined guns, and me constantly firing remote control missiles left me as a priority target holed up in some corner of the map somewhere.
One of my all time favorite 64 games.This game would be amazing if remastered for computers and new consoles.
Right
Dude right!!! The other games are more story driven with huge maps and stuff.....but I LOVE this arena style shooter that just cuts to the chase
In the subject of gaming their is nothing I would like more than a remake of this game!
4 years later and i back this opinion
pretty good
That "HEYYY YAAAAAAA HEEEEEEY" shout from the background music is also used in Sonic Raiders for the jungle stage...holy shiiiit
back then some games used similar samples
When I bought it, I remember it costing $15 at Kmart. I loved turok as a kid. When I saw it, I immediately asked my parents for it. For the first time ever, they did not hesitate to buy me a game. I remember getting home and feeling a little weird about it once I started playing. There was no epic storyline or anything. It wasn't until I started playing with my cousins that I started to see what this game had to offer. As a multiplayer game, it kicked all sorts of ass.
that's a damn good price!
I hope you were at least 17 when you got it because this game has some intense levels of violence and blood spatter.
THE BEST MULTIPLAYER GAME ON N64 seriuously way ahead of its time!
Exactly! As a kid I was disapointed that there wasn't a solid campaign but for me the single player challenges became unusually so addicting. Then playing against my friends, big bro and my nephew, this was crazy good.
Kmart dang seems like alternative reality back when it was opened, never thought they go under. I remember they had good deals on old N64 games even into Wii life cycle.
"stop looking at my screen"
wayge god damn screen-lookers...
so many memories lol
In all seriousness, how could you NOT look at the other screen? 🤔
@@Chiller31916 It was an act of honor and respect.
@@chambeet Agreed, does not explain how you don't though. Cover up part of the screen with cardboard? No idea
This game is the definition of nostalgia for me. I dumped so many hours into 4 player matches and the solo game. We spent way too many sleepovers trying to play Co-op lol.
I know the feel bro. This game was where nearly all of me and my buddy's free time went in 5th and 6th grade.
I miss that friend... He moved away. And I got my own copy of the game sitting on my shelf to this day.
As a side note, this game is 100% canon.
Both David Dienstber and Jeff Gomez consider it canon, as it's how Joshua Fireseed becomes worthy of the Light Burden when his ownership of it comes into question.
Due to the time weirdness of the Lost Lands, the Campaigner is a pre-Turok 1 Campaigner - one before he was a cyborg.
Side fact. The original plan for this game was to have an Acclaim/ Valiant crossover shooter. Using characters like Shadowman, XO MANOWAR, Bloodshot and others.
Rage wars is definitely overlooked in my opinion this was a good game for what it was.
***** i think so too my friend :)
Yea I feel like nobody knows about it
I played this game as a kid with my dad back in the very early 2000s, like 2001 and 2002. We both ended up unlocking everything, and in the process of doing this we created my favorite gaming memories.
You're dad is a legend
Man I love your reviews. I'm a huge N64 game console fan and am a fan of the Turok games. Great reviews on a lot of classic games. Consider me subscribed!
Couple years late on this comment , playing the first Turok on my N64 was one of the first memories I have with video games , along with golden eye, cruising the world ,gex, glover.. I’ll never forget how awesome the guns and background echos sounded , the game felt fun real and scary , definitely a treat to see vids like this one makes me want to hunt down an old console and relive these fond memories
Never late with nostalgia and a great memory to share 👍
This Game Still Holds up to this day!
Finally someone giving this game the praise it deserves!
The best multiplayer on N64 wasn't Mario Kart or Smash Bros or Diddy Kong Racing. Not bloody Goldeneye with its weird analog stick controls and not Perfect Dark (although it had great multiplayer).
It was THIS.FUCKING.GAME period.
You do realize you can change the control scheme on Goldeneye. 1.2 controls is generally the best scheme because you would use the C buttons for move/strafe much like WASD and the stick for aiming.
@Simon Chase You can use the Dpad for strafe/move as well, it's just a bit harder to hit the A and B buttons with your right hand.
GOD, I LOVE THIS GAME!!!!! This was a big part of my childhood. I have spent literally thousands of hours laughing and cracking up with family and friends this was the funnest and most hilarious game to play with your best friends. A 5/5 N64 title.
Besides the cerebral bore. I love the shotgun you could pump up to get a special shot called the street sweeper. One trigger pull shot i think 5 or 6 times really fast and would decimate.
I used to rent this every weekend from the video shop when my friends came over that they just gave it to me to keep.. no one else ever rented it lol.
LOVED this game as a kid and me, my brother and our cousins still play it during parties. Didn't care about a lack of story mode then and still don't. Nothing more satisfying than either getting the green circle lock on a CB or Inflator one-shot-fat-explosion while everyone keeps saying "don't watch my screen"
Oh man, this brings back great memories. The terror and gore of the Chestburster gun, being a jerk with the freeze gun's secondary function, making turkey noises as you chased your friends around with your flappy raptor hands... I managed to unlock most of the alternate skins through the single player campaign (my favourite was the ice skin for the magmite), and then my sister saved over my file and put me back to square one. I was so frustrated that I didn't pick it up again. It was a great game though, the AI was challenging, the level design worked well for the most part, and the huge variety of weaponry made sure that you were never bored.
I think I actually played this before any of the other turok games when I was younger and really loved it for its co-op ability and just overall multiplayer fun. I do also remember putting in long hours to unlock everything. I mostly re-picked it up out of nostalgia, but even to this day I still enjoy it.
So many memories of me and my older brother playing this!
Oooh yeeeeah 🌋
I always really enjoyed this game, it would be great to see split screen multiplayer make a come back.
Especially now that there are widescreen HD TVs.
Player Five Screen watching lives...
4DhumanInstrumentality Ever heard of a game called "Screen Cheat"?
Just saw a video of some invisible dudes running around a room filled with Dali and Van Gogh paintings. Looks very frustrating...
Graphics prevent that from happening
This sums up such a huge chunk of my childhood. The warehouse level with the mag secondary laser zipping around was always fun. My friends and I would play then get an itch to go play some laser tag. Then afterwards we go back and play more rage wars.
This is one of my all time favorite titles. Me and my friend had such a blast running around hitting each other with war-hammers, cerebral bores, and that weird alien embryo shooting thing. About 2 months ago I went out and picked up this again with a memory card and have been playing on and off, too many good memories here. Thank you Glenn
Evan Peters awesome to hear evan! the alien chest buster weapon is awesome - cant fault acclaim for their good gun designs!
Can you elaborate more on the expansion pack you mentioned? As in it helped sharpen the graphic
god this brings back my childhood, every time we would visit my cousins’ place this was the game we always played, 4 players on the one screen getting absolutely annihilated by a scorpion rocket. Good times. This would rank up as one of my favorite local multiplayer games, behind halo and smash bros. Would love to see a remaster of this game on next gen consoles with splitscreen still intact. But the original N64 version is the proper way to play turok multiplayer
do you like the turok 1 and 2 remasters?
N64 Glenn Plant I haven’t been able play them yet on xbox one because they’re not available on the Australian store
good news, it is now on the australian xbox store, they put it on the store a month or so ago
We need a remake of this amazing game!
Maybe nighdive will give it the same treeatment as 1 and 2 but doubtful
Had this game as a kid but never knew anyone else who had it.
Did anyone else find it horrifying? The music and atmosphere still creep me out.
This game terrified me as a child. I would never play it unless I had 2 expert bots on my team and I'd just follow them around.
use to have a bunch of friends in the past stop by and go many rounds on this game.. much fun
Great fun with friends
man I loved the turok games, games hold your hand way too much these days.
I agree, shooter games have lost the challenge they once had, go back to these and they still are better games to play even with dates graphics
Dated*
yeah turok was one of the best fps games for the time.
still very playable today
+Anth bobo I really do hope they end up releasing Turok 3 and rage wars on steam after they rerelease Turok 2
It be nice to see a release on switch, I played as a kid alot but I didn't have the right memory thing so I'd only have a new charter for alittle bit
I've only played this without the expansion pack, thinking I've always had it. Now I got something to look forward to!
Hope you get to re enjoy the game all over again
This game is part of my childhood. I was 11 and played this with my friend everyday all daylong
I had neither the rumble pack nor the Expantion Pack. Yet I played this game alone and with friends for hours on end. Every single time I had to restart because I couldn't save. But I didn't mind. It was my whole sense of replayability.
And yes, this carried over to Turok 2, which I never actually managed to finish because of my inability to save. But I loved them to bits.
Absolutely adored this game, one of my most played N64 games - would love a remastered PC version.
that would be a godsend, like turok 2 seeds of evil, that is an awesome remaster, i never really played turok 2 only for an hour at friends long ago, but my god, is the remaster is the smoothest, flush feeling game i've ever played. now if rage wars got that same treatment.
I used to play this game everyday with the bots on hard. Raptor, LordDead and the bug man (not his exact name). Raptor use to scare the hell out of me in the dark maps. LordDead pain cries are hilarious.. XD
Juggernaut pain cries are hilarious too
@@lujanr32 Juggernaut: OOOOOOOOOO!!
Yo them fkn raptors used to run around stealth af!
I loved all the random characters. I remember some kind of fire character and then an ice one. Tons of fun. My friend and I played a ton with bots, too.
The bug man was Drone if I'm correct. The fire and Ice one were Fireborn and Iceborn I think
Glad you reviewed this, brings back a lot of memories. Underrated imo
Everthing Goes Hame i think so too my friend
I spent so many great hours playing this with friends and family. Good times
I've only watched one other review, but this has to be the best review on this game. Great nostalgia. I played this mostly single player for many hours when I was a kid. Borrowed the OG Turok from a friend, but didn't get to play that as much, loved it too tho. Never played any other Turok games.
Thanks Kyle 👍
I remember me and my brother playing this every now and then. It was fun and played coop most of the time. It sucked though cause it was later in years and we couldnt find a memory cartride for it. Would love to see it on a new console with multiplayer.
Remember getting this for Christmas in '99. Memories...
I went into this game not expecting much, but it was actually fun as shit when you really sunk your teeth into it. Spent WAY MORE time playing this than I expected I would. Good times.....the good old days.
Nothing beats couch multiplayer!
this was a huge game for me growing up i had no siblings so i had my mom or my grandpa play with me fond memories playing with my older cousins at their house and it was such a great arcade shooter and really sparked a love for multiplayer shooters for me.
I love how all 4 Turok games on N64 all have different blood and gore effects. It is definitely the bloodiest series of games besides the 3 Mortal Kombat games on the system. Maybe Shadowman, Doom 64, and Hexen are close in terms of gruesome gore. Mace the dark age is up there too.
You’re right they are all different I can only imagine it’s because as the years went by they started using different assets to create the art style which may have changed depending on the team working on the game
@@n64glennplant I was high on oxycodone (Percocet) when I made that comment. I can always tell which ones of my old comments were drug induced.
This was actually the first Turok game I ever played and it really my arena shooter of choice. I recently decided to replay the game and without the expansion pak it really is ne of the blurriest games on the system., but if you have a full set of working N64 controllers and the expansion pak, it's still as much fun as it was back in the day. People can say about this game what they will, but if it wasn't for this game, I would never have taken an interest in the franchise and I wouldn't have loved the N64 as much as I do today. Thanks for giving this game an honest review.
Out of all the games I’ve played, I would love to see a remaster of this. I could see it as a competitive game with balance adjustments and updated controls.
Criminally underrated title. The Game has a lot of replay value, is fun and achieved what it intended to do
One if my all time favorites. I miss the warehouse level and scanning with my mag laser looking for my bois in the shadows. Always made us pumped to hit up laser quest.
I remember this game but I never thought any other turok beat the original do you remember disco mode? 😏
VGM DUDE haha that was crazy!
I enjoyed this. 1 of the few FPS games I liked.
***** cool to know - this is the dark sheep of the turok series on n64 and not everyone seems to enjoy it
I enjoyed this a lot too. I remember playing it with my friend quite a lot.
+N64 Glenn Plant I loved this game as a child with my brother. It's just that, at the time, I had a black cartridge and that ticked me off real bad because we couldn't complete 2 player trial with it, but aside from that, love the game.
loved this game. you get to play as a swarm of mites, whats not to like about that?
Just recently bought this again for the first time in 15 years. Great game. Hard to control now though haha
I laughed my ass off when the dinosaur started spazzing out and waving his arms to attack.
morrisseyowesmemoney haha the raptor is the perfect character for newbies to the series, so easy to play as
I used to always use the drone character and my bro would use the elite… good times playing this game… would be cool to see this game brought to modern gaming, the music,aesthetic and characters are unique
I LOVED this game. Tons of weapons and fast paced gameplay. I also appreciated the smoother frame rate. Unlike Turok 2 and 3, I never really felt worried about the game slowing to a crawl when the action got intense. Thanks for the trip back to memory lane Glenn !
Spent many an hour , day, weekend playing this game . Superb !
The multiplayer was so huge back in the day! Maybe I will give it a go again just to feel the good memories.
Anything with Turok in the title on the n64 is just bloody brilliant!
Amen to that!
my favorita multiplayer, so many years of fun!
This is the only Turok game I ever played. I didn't have a Memory Card to save my progress on campaign mode (which was a bummer) but I played multiplayer with my friends and we had a total blast with it. I may just end up playing the game again, and finish the campaigns lol.
this game was one of my favorite games as a child
Chasing friends and siblings as monkeys and chickens (maybe Turok 2 only?) is one of my fondest N64 memories.
That and me and my sister playing Diddy kong racing with our feet...
Can't believe I experienced this game when I was 9 or 10! With my childhood best friend may God have mercy on his soul, RiP dear Masi Jaan. I will cherish our memories till I die.
I was 9 too lol
I remember the secondary shot for the pistol only took two shots to kill.
great review Glenn
Just think if ID made a new Turok game. Awesome story and multiplayer.
we can live in hope!
That co-op bug was such a bummer. My friends and I tried so many things to get past it but nothing worked; taking out the rumble pack/memory card during the loading screen, blowing into the cartridge, unplugging-replugging in the controllers, and none of it worked lol
I love this game! I just got done playing it! Controls are tight, graphics are solid, amazing varied weapons and tons of maps! Playing with bots is a huge bonus! Turok: Rage Wars is a true 64 gem and still a blast to play!
I actually picked this up recently for a steal at $20 at the local second hand shop, I actually really like this game it brings the elements of turok 2 multiplayer and quake 2 at some points, really enjoyed the game overall
You forgot to mention co-op!You could kill a whole Saturday with a friend playing through together unlocking weapons, levels and characters. One tactic we used to do was I'd use the secondary mode on the Freeze gun(insta freezing A.I) while my friend would Be ready with a charged hammer or shotgun, then one shoting them. Turok 2 multiplayer wasn't nearly as good as ragewars. Turok 3 in my opinion was perhaps overall the best turok multiplayer on n64.
I'd love to see this be redone and rereleased on console and PC. The game while obviously a basic deathmatch game, felt unique in presentation and style. The loadout and pickup system was also kind of new at the time, and on game has really done it the way it did.
I remember when I was a kid, starting a level and hearing a raptor right off the bat and my heart just dropping 😂
Goldeneye: "No Oddjob!"
Turok Rage Wars: *Picks mites*
Brilliant 😂
Some of my most treasured childhood memories are of ragewars. Napalm for life!
This was more like a death match party type game where you and your friends can have fun, run around and kill each other. Fun never ends.
I think me and friends played this for like 3 years straight lol. thats how much fun it was and how much we laughed playing it.
Great game review! I got the game in 2000, still one of my favs! Sadly I have the black cartridge. When I first showed the game to a gaming buddy who stays on the cutting edge of gaming consoles (just last summer) he was very surprised how fast and flowing the game was considering the age
yeah the expansion pack helps but even without it runs quite nicely
Me and my nephews had so much fun with this game.
"Don't bother playing this game without an expantion pack"
PLS.
Dmac 740 get one, you’re doing yourself a disservice by not having one. Idiot.
As a console gamer who's bread and butter is bot deathmatches, I had no idea this game existed with bots. I was always of the opinion the Perfect dark had the best bots and customisation, The World is Not Enough the best multiplayer level design, and Goldeneye the best gun 'feel', but as you're a far more knowledgeable N64 gamer than I am, I'd be fascinated to see if you ever put out a personal top 5/top 10 N64 shooters list, especially if you compared the bot AI of the 64 games that included them.
Rage Wars has the best bot AI. They move more human like and less in straight lines. This game also has some more mechanics like jumping and swimming. Look at the movement at 2:56 and the jumping around 3:18 . This game is really cheap these days and I recommend picking it up. It's a hidden gem on the N64.
I always set brightness to high in options and boom! bright as you want (for anyone who doesn't like the dark preset).
I'd really love to see a new Turok 2 Seeds of Evil game on a PS4 or something like that
It's one of the few games i'd condone a full remake for, or even settle for a simple remaster. Same musical score but update it, same voice actor for Adon if possible, etc. Keep it faithful.
A Remaster is coming to the Xbox one.
Remaster is coming to Steam, GOG, and Humble Store, as well as consoles I think. :)
A remaster of turok 2 is out now on steam
I wonder why it didn't come to PS4
Rage wars, goldeneye and perfect dark were the best shooters in those days. Rage wars was the best in my opinion.
so many classics of that time, I was a big unreal fan too so sad that didn't get an n64 release
mene this is nostalgic gold, i wish they would bring a new version pvp for steam .. would be so sick
Nightdive actually have a solid version for multiplayer just not released this
Another great review! So glad I subscribed!
Rage Wars is easily my favorite Turok game on the N64 when I have company. Even if I'm playing Seeds of Evil and my friends stop by, I turn it off and put in Rage Wars because of how much better the Multiplayer is. The RAptor in Seeds of Evil is an under powered, slow mess. In Rage Wars, the Roster is much more balanced and the Raptor is a formidable walking meat shredder.
I love this game as it was a great addition to the multiplayer library as well as a solid single player game. And, all that came packaged at a nice low price point upon release!
I really liked this game because of the amount of unlockables this game has. Especially the more challenging ones.
One of my favorite 64 games. Managed to unlock all the cheats from months of playing. Ofc, the game was bugged and I could not finish the coop campaign due to that bug that was patched with the fixed version that you would have had to send in your original to swap it for. Still, I enjoyed the game and I wish I could still play it without issues, but emulators just arent the same as they can be buggy themselves.
Loved it as a kid, I used to play it with my friends all the time
There will always be a special place in my heart for the Cerebral Bore!
The band or the gun?
I enjoyed Rage wars as a good distraction from other multiplayer games, the deployable turret was fun.
I had the grey cart new in the box when I bought it, didn't think it was a big deal.
This is a top 10 N64 game for me, the multiplayer was one of my most played games until we got Time Splitters 2 on the GC a few years later.
when i was a kid that was the first turok i played and the first game i ever pleyed on my N64.
i loved the intro song and the 4 players deathmatch a lot maybe a little more than the quake 64 and goldeneye
but unfortunately i had the cartrige with the bug and i could never pass the monkey part in story mode when i play multiplayer with my brother :(
If I'm remembering this correctly, they released this the day after Christmas. I'd love to have been in the meeting when that release date was decided on. It's the reason I still haven't played this 15 years later. I was too busy getting stuck into Donkey Kong 64 after christmas and just forgot about this after a while.
I mostly grew up with the turok evolution multiplayer, but this looks fun
I love this game. My friends and I put so much time into this
Loved Turok Rage wars. I spent countless hours unlocking stuff and trying to get all the medals. It was fun being able to pick characters my friend didnt have heheh
Small maps yet so fun to play :)
I remember getting really good with the raptor. My friends hated it as I was super hard to hit and would use the jump attack to one shot them. Eventually they made a rule I could only be the raptor in so many matches.
In the German Version Adon was rewritten and named Alpha. Also blood was censored.
There’s so many cool German changes for N64 games
@@n64glennplant more or less 😅 the ratingboard USK / BPJM couldnt play videogames themselfs back in the day were "traumatised" from what they saw, thats why so many games got censored or banned in that area. They hired Kids for playing these games untill the early 2000s when a now gaming Jurnalist begun to work there and played every game. A few years ago he talked in a Video about the unban of Hitman about that. Mortal Kombat (1-3) and Wolfenstein are btw still banned here.