One night, about fifteen years ago, my girlfriend came home with a surprise: she had rented me Turok: Dinosaur Hunter for the N64. She made a good call: a game about hunting dinosaurs would be sure to rock. When I opened it, the cartridge inside was for Pokemon Snap -- a game where you walk a linear path and take photos of Pokemon and the professor grouses at you if they're not framed exactly center. That was pretty disappointing but not as disappointing as it would have been if that cartridge had Dinosaur Hunt on it. Everything about Dinosaur Hunt is terrible. The AI is awful with enemies often standing in place or spinning in circles, the maps are boring, the graphics are bad (especially gun and corpse effects), the guns are boring to fire, the music loop is nearly as grating as the rare voice effects. It stands as a mysterious testament to how you can make a game about shooting dinosaurs not even a little bit fun.

One night, about fifteen years ago, my girlfriend came home with a surprise: she had rented me Turok: Dinosaur Hunter for the N64. She made a good call: a game about hunting dinosaurs would be sure to rock. When I opened it, the cartridge inside was for Pokemon Snap -- a game where you walk a linear path and take photos of Pokemon and the professor grouses at you if they're not framed exactly center. That was pretty disappointing but not as disappointing as it would have been if that cartridge had Dinosaur Hunt on it. Everything about Dinosaur Hunt is terrible. The AI is awful with enemies often standing in place or spinning in circles, the maps are boring, the graphics are bad (especially gun and corpse effects), the guns are boring to fire, the music loop is nearly as grating as the rare voice effects. It stands as a mysterious testament to how you can make a game about shooting dinosaurs not even a little bit fun.