Luckily, tapping Fl offers help - a white arrow near your crosshair, indicating where you have to trudge to your next objective. Turok is a very linear shooter, but even so, you can often get lost in the samey-looking tropical jungle. Propaganda may have dumped that excellent decapitator, but they've retained the central hero, reinventing him as a gung-ho marine, sent to a terraformed planet to bring down a renegade leader. In the late '90s, the Turok series pioneered great FPS graphics (well, it was the first game I saw with lens flare) and innovative weapons such as the cerebral bore. However, despite its obvious console roots, Turok isn't that bad - it's just primeval bog-standard.

On Hearing I was to give the verdict on a new Turok game, one that was created by a brand-new development team and that sneaked onto shelves while most people weren't looking, I was ready to rip into it like a T-Rex in a paddock of American tourists.