Demo Lookat - The Club, Turok

The Club:

Whooooee!! Sega made a game again! The last Sega game I played and really enjoyed was that there Yakuza game. FUCKING GREAT, experimental in that it was an fighting game action RPG set in modern day. You get me? That means there were random battles, level ups, side-quests, and a pretty good story (but...like other Japanese stuff these days, had like five endings...bizarro). This too is an experimental game: A Race Shooter. That's my coinage, I'm coining it. See Sega or some other company and I fucked up but I'm too lazy to confirm sources (unprofessional) also made this car shooting game recently for the PS3 where you race around shooting up cars, maybe on a track, maybe not. The point is in The Club, you are some random national (Russian, Chinese, American, Jamaican, etc.) who runs around shooting people (sometimes you have to run laps), and you better do it right. From the start, the tutorial explains your points (and thus the point of the game) will be based on how you kill your fellow man. You better shoot them in the head, or do something "cool" like roll and then shoot them. Then you better keep killing other people too, quickly so you can get more combos to score more points! I think Red Dead Revolver had a similar idea, but it was more like you got more money for hitting people in specific areas. Red Dead Revolver had a great storyline, or it was ok, but the gameplay more than made up for it. The Club is all killing, all score-gathering, and it's so twisted in this aspect, that it's pretty fun. The weapons sound great for some reason, and there are lots of them, and there's no need for developers to hold back since weapons are procure on-site and disappear from your inventory after the map ends, so you can get an RPG almost anytime you want.

A multiplayer mode lets you play a game similar to Timesplitters' Gladiator called Hunter/Hunted. Get the 1st kill, you're the hunted. Stay alive. Everyone else is the hunters.

I'm really curious about this game just because I want to see what else there is to it. The idea is so simple, some other reason must exist for this concept. It can't just be the same thing over and over...can it?

I'm really curious, but scared. Maybe they only showed so little because what's there isn't worth it. It also struck me that you could call this a King of Shooters tournament maybe...KOF w/ guns...

Turok:

RON PERLMAN DOES A VOICE IN THIS GAME! WOW! WOW! WOW! Sometimes he does bad things. Parts of this demo were really cool. The flashback scene where you learn how Turok learned his shit was pretty cool. Fighting dinosaurs is pretty fucking cool, especially when they tackle you and you cut into them until they back the fuck off. I hate the stealth, it's boring. I hate the selection of weapons: Double shotty, Double SMG, mix of the two, singular, a bow (that doesn't seem to work on humans... :(, and a knife (but that's a fucking hot knife yo. since RE4, I love me some hot knives). It's Halo style. Holding a single weapon lets you throw grenades. Knife stealth kills are pretty cool. The overall feel isn't bad, but something about this game bugs me, and makes me not want to play it. I think it's lack of respect for the series really. I think there are better titles out there like Resistance: Fall of Man.

Even Ron Perlman kinda hates Turok. The whole time he's with you he's all like, "yeah, whatever, do this." or "Oh, you fell down a hole, well, umm...find your way out or something." Then he sees this albino fucker and he gets all excited like "OOh, REESE! REESE! You've got a sniper rifle. That's cool. Hey, wait up, Reese! REESE! HEY! LOOK! LOOK! HEY REESE! HEY LOOK! HEY REESE! HEY LOOK, MAN!" Then he and Reese tell you to kill people for them.

Fuck you, Reese. Cover my fucking ass or don't exist. Yeah, that's right, you NPC motherfucker, I said, squad-based combat doesn't make sense if you're just gonna make me fight for my self. That's stupid.

ONE REALLY COOL THING THOUGH! A REALLY NEAT SHITERDOO! Guardians (big Antlion fuckers) from Half-Life 2, when they were attacking, were really hard to avoid, and so are some of the dinosaurs in Turok, so push that left stick and hit X like you would in most third-person action games and you dive out that way. Great! Now if only there was a sprint feature like there was in Half-Life 2.

P.S. I got beef with Half-Life 2: Episode 2. I'll really post about it later, but I think being the bitch errand boy of every NPC you talk to really sucks. The story got weak yo.