Game Boy Color

Turok: Rage Wars

All in all, I was impressed with Turok: Rage Wars. The previous two Turok GBC titles had been less than spectacular platformers, but thankfully Acclaim has turned around with their third entry and come back with an entertaining side-scroller that certainly deserves a look.

I liked Turok: Rage Wars a lot more than the past two bland Turok games from Acclaim. I'm a little disappointed that Bit Managers didn't adopt the N64 design for the Game Boy Color rendition ¿ a deathmatch game would have been really cool on the Game Boy Color, even if it had to be put into an overhead perspective. Still, for what it is, Turok: Rage Wars is a decent action game that blows away its successors.

If you're looking for a high-quality action game, you can't go wrong with this one. The slick visual feel coupled with the tried-and-true gameplay make for a great game to help the in-flight hours melt away.

Unfortunately I found the Rage Wars for the GBC didn't seem to, and I was left feeling that the game is lacking in that special something. Maybe I am expecting too much, but in this day and age and with a machine with such potential, I feel that Rage Wars just doesn't meet the grade. The graphics and sound are both of a high standard, it's just the game itself which lets the whole thing down. It's true that PC/N64/PSX games may be able to get away with amazing 3D rendering and no real game to back it up. But unfortunately for game developers, Gameboy games as of yet can't. Overall it's not bad game, but it isn't great......NEXT!