Sabre Interactive Studio will give life to the series TurokAdaptation of video games of an American comic of the 1950s that narrates the adventures of a dinosaur hunter, and whose first title marked a whole generation of players in the late 1990s.
First presented in the media in Gamescom in Colonia (Germany), one of the largest video game fairs, Turok: Origins It is a cooperative shooting game where we embody a Amerindio warrior who travels on time to defend humanity against reptile monsters.
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When Universal Studios, Holder of Rights, told this new version to know interactive in 2020: “It was in shock, because the series slept for so long,” Jesús Iglesias, interpretation director in the Spanish study of the group, told AFP.
Released in 1997 in Nintendo 64, the first Turok He had impressed the players by allowing them to explore in a subjective prehistoric universe, all in 3D, at a time when this technology was only in their childhood.
The saga then decreased due to the consequences that “have moved away from the original formula,” laments Mr. Iglesias, until it stopped forever after the episode released in 2008 (a title was launched in 2019 but not related to the main series).
The new work Turok: Originsthat mobilized up to 250 people in its peak of development, is “respectful of the first two episodes, while incorporating elements that make this universe a bit more consistent,” he added. Scheduled on PC and consoles, it still does not have a release date.
Founded in Russia and based in the United States, Knowledge Interactive was a worldwide success in 2024 with Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine IIThe shooting game passed more than seven million copies and with which this Turok Share certain common points, such as the possibility of playing in cooperation with two other players against hordes of enemies controlled by AI.
Source: BFM TV
