System: Microsoft Xbox 360

Also available for: Sony PlayStation 3, Windows PC

Publisher: Touchstone

Reviewer’s rating: ***

ESRB rating: Mature

Game type: First-person shooter

Kind of like: “Doom” with dinosaurs

Best feature: The dinosaurs are fast and vicious, and you will hate them in no time.

Worst feature: We’ve played a lot of shooters, and this one doesn’t bring anything new to the table.

The bottom line: “Turok,” the dinosaur-themed franchise that has brought us a few good games over the years, has rebooted with a new offering for the Xbox 360.

The new game is simply named “Turok,” appropriate for restarting the story from ground zero, and in it you are a soldier who crash lands on a lost world filled with dangerous beasts.

A lot of what’s in this game are things we’ve seen before from a lot of shooters. Graphically, though, this game looks really good. Thick clusters of grass and bushes hide horrible raptors and other menaces, ready to jump out and tear you to pieces.

As Turok the soldier, you can use guns to shoot threatening reptiles and enemy soldiers. You also have a combat knife, which can be used from behind to achieve special stealth kills. The deaths are grisly in “Turok,” so this game is not for kids.

One nice touch is that the dinosaurs in “Turok” don’t just stand in front of you when they get close. Raptors will knock you to the ground or spin you around, causing your visuals to go flying. The disorientation makes the dinosaur attacks seem much more real.

As far as level design goes, this game doesn’t wow us as much as “Turok 2” did on the Nintendo 64, and that was two generations ago.