Donnie Wahlberg in Turok
p2pnet news | Games:- Video games are serious business and Disney is underscoring that for its “Turok,” rated ‘M’ for Mature.
Donnie Wahlberg, Timothy Olyphant, Powers Boothe, Ron Perlman and William Fichtner are being paid big bucks to provide the voices, slated for launch by Disney on February 5 next year.
What’s Turok all about?
It, “first appeared in Four Color Comics #596 (1954), then graduated to his own title Turok, Son of Stone,” says the Wikipedia.
“Many years later, Valiant Comics acquired the rights to the character. Valiant was itself acquired by Acclaim Entertainment.”
Now, “The Turok franchise is most notable today for the Turok video games,” it says, adding:
The first Turok video game appeared early in the life of the Nintendo 64 console, and the next two sequels were also Nintendo exclusives, though were later ported to PC. The fourth installment of the series, Turok: Evolution, released in 2002 across all console formats, was a critical and financial disappointment.
In 2005, Buena Vista Games announced it had acquired the rights to the Turok franchise and would be publishing new games for consoles and handhelds. Propaganda Games will develop the new titles, and will be using Unreal Engine 3 to power the console versions. It will be released on Xbox 360 and PS3.
Turok’s armoury has been considerably improved for the Disney release —– gone are his trusty bow and arrer. Now he’s sporting an automatic rifle.
When you head over to the site for a look you have to go through the hoary old ‘enter your age’ routine, which achieves absolutely zip but which allows Disney, et al, to pretend they’re carefully protecting children from stuff they shouldn’t be seeing.
It has the ‘M’ rating so there must be something pretty shocking waiting within. Right?
But all you get are a lot of wind noises with moans and groans in the background and the static pic on the right 
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