Stephen Kick, CEO of NightDive Studios, has shared the documents for a game Nightdive Studios Acclaim Austin pitched back in 2004. As you may have guessed, this game never saw the light of day and was cancelled. This new Turok game would be called Turok 5: Resurrection, and would retain its first-person perspective.
Here's the pitch doc for TUROK 5: Resurrection – have a great weekend y'all 🦖 pic.twitter.com/uDgI3MYT3k
— Stephen Kick (@pripyatbeast) August 7, 2020
According to the documents, Turok 5: Resurrection would feature lush jungle terrain and spirit powered attacks with huge visual effects. The game would also allow players to ride a T-Rex or Triceratops with miniguns and rocket launchers.
Turok 5: Resurrection would also feature new torso, head and limb damage system. Similarly to Turok 2, players would be able to decapitate their enemies.
The game was also promising a new control system. Players would be able to melee their enemies with their left hand, and use a gun with their right arm. Additionally, the game would feature immersive deformable terrain.
Furthermore, Turok 5: Resurrection would feature online co-op with up to two players. Moreover, it would have a deathmatch mode, supporting up to 8 players. Also, both Warp levels and weapons from the previous Turok games would make a return.
It’s really a shame this Turok game never came to fruition because – on paper – it appears to be a really cool FPS!
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Nightdive couldn’t pitch this game in 2004, as the studio didn’t exist yet.
Kick pitched it probably when he was investigating System Shock 2’s rights.
Turok 5 pitch backfired but managed to acquire System Shock 2’s rights and formed Nightdive after 2010.
Acclaim pitched the game, not Kick. He was in college back then, and he didn’t work for Acclaim: https://www.linkedin.com/in/smkick/
yeap, Acclaim Austin pitched it. Fixed.
sounds like vivisector with turok reboot and prey.
Sad it didnt happen. Also couldnt help but notice that it says “Target audience males 13-25” unlike now that it is “30-40 year old manchild soyboy or other forms of gender neutral feminists that declare their allegiance to any social justice cause created by the media like BLM, also known as burn loot and murder”
Didn’t know there was a Turok 3
Turok was quite a special game for its unique setting, presentation, and stellar animations…another cool game from the golden era!
As years passed, it deteriorated into abominations like Turok Evolution & Turok(2008)…
How can a reader with Shodan avatar even write this? What was unique about Turok idea, you tell me. It wasn’t even first dinosaur game around.
First one was a GFX tech demo. Nothing more.
Well to me it was! 🙂
I was still in 4th grade and only just started gaming…never owned a console ever to this day!
It was my first dino FPS and the visuals and animations were mind-blowing to me! And they were quite top-notch for the time.
Though, a year later I got my hands on Quake 2 which blew me away! BUT, that didn’t last long…6 months later arrived the grand-daddy of em ail…”RIP Quake 2″…Summer ’98 (best time of my life!) came Unreal destroying everything!
Ah! the good ‘ole days! A time unlike any…the golden era in gaming!
Unreal (Tournament) was a damn classic. I’ve played that and QIII (99) relentlessly.
Also don’t forget SiN!
I love Q3A a lot more than UT99, but UT99 is excellent!
I play Q3A to this day on LAN…never get’s old! The movement mechanics/physics are the greatest ever IMHO!
I never had the chance to play SIN back in the day…