Turok 3 Remastered released earlier than intended on Nintendo Switch in Europe and Oceania, and as such contains a number of bugs yet to be fixed, its developer has warned.
Nightdive Studios, of the System Shock remake fame, apologised for the confusion surrounding the release date of the remaster, which was intended to be pushed back to November 30 on all platforms. “This was not the plan,” the developer said.
Inexplicably, Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion Remastered launched on the eShop in Europe and Oceania on November 14. Nightdive said it was working with Nintendo of Europe to push back the launch date so the latest patch fixes were included, “but unfortunately, our holiday schedules did not align.”
Turok 3 Remastered is therefore available to buy now on the eShop with “known bugs and missing quality-of-life features”, Nightdive warned. These include a crash that occurs if the player tries to access the start menu while selecting their character in the introduction sequence, the functionality for invincibility, as well as two other cheats that are missing, and various bugs and QOL features set to be tackled in a patch due out mid-December.
That’s at least a month after the launch of Turok 3 on the eShop in Europe and Oceania — a less than ideal situation for players of the game, which costs £24.99 in the UK. There is currently no warning on Turok 3’s eShop page about bugs or missing features.
The hold up has to do with the latest build of Turok 3 moving through Nintendo of Europe’s certification process, Nightdive said. All other platforms get the correct version of the game on November 30. “Thank you for your support as we continue to resolve this as soon as possible,” Nightdive said.
Nightdive Studios has already released remasters of the first two games in the cult-classic Nintendo 64 first-person shooter franchise. Now it’s the turn of Acclaim’s Turok 3, which launched in September 2000 on Nintendo’s console.
It’s a busy time indeed for Nightdive, now owned by Atari and fresh from the successful launches of the Quake 2 remaster and the System Shock remake. The Turok 3 remaster likely closes the book on Nightdive’s work on the franchise.
“We’re considering this at this time the conclusion of the Turok trilogy,” director of business development at Nightdive Studios Larry Kuperman told IGN earlier this year. “That said, Nightdive’s avowed purpose is to bring back every lost classic, so who knows? But we also have a pretty full calendar for next year. We’ve had an incredible pace of releases this year, but next year it gets really busy.”
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