Turok: Evolution (Windows)

Turok: Evolution
Developer: Acclaim Studios Austin Publishers: Acclaim Entertainment (International) Platforms: Windows Released in EU: October 24, 2003 This game has unused enemies. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused items. This game has unused sounds. This game has unused text.

Turok: Evolution is the prequel to the original and the fifth game in the series. While the game was met with average reviews, it had a very interesting development process and has tons of content that was cut out because of financial troubles and time constraints. (Even the fat guy from the Fatboy Slim album!)

To do: This is only the tip of the iceberg. Will upload more videos showing the functioning unused things in action soon. Woo boy, this page needs a serious clean-up, possibly even sub-pages. Sort everything here with subheadings so its not so long and difficult to read.

Sub-Pages

Unused Strings Lots of them.

Unused NPCs / Objects

Because the game had to be rushed and Acclaim was close to bankruptcy, a lot of content had to be cut. This game is a gold-mine full of unused and early stuff.

Placeholder Ankylosaurus

Dire Wolf

Hog / Boar

Beetle

Waterbug

Crane

Komodo Dragon

Large & Small Bat

Unused Sleg Variants

Unused Sleg Guard. Called "Uber" in the files. It's the flamethrower variant also noted in the files.

An unused variant of a Sleg Soldier that would've wielded a crossbow. He's not wearing his helmet because it's a separate model (and an .mtf file at that). (As seen in the strategy guide.)

Unused Senator

The game has 4 Senators but Senator 2 is the oddball. His place was taken by a random dying civilian so he went unused.

Human Soldier Driver

Human Soldier Guard

Human Soldier

Human Soldier (Urban Camo)

So the interesting part about those four models up there is that they aren't packed in with the other human NPCs. Instead of the "allies" folder, they get their own spot inside the "enemies" folder. Unless they were friendly NPCs that were packed up into the wrong folder, then at some point there would've been human enemies in Turok: Evolution. All four ultimately go unused.

Some of the early stuff that still works in action:

Unused Textures

Two Acclaim logos.

An AI Marker. While this is technically used to control the AI, it can't be actually seen.

Leftovers from tools the developers used to make the game.

A duck and a clown's face.

Noodles.

A map placeholder!

Appears to be a metal placeholder.

TV test patterns.

Super Happy Fun Fun Inc. logo, the company that ported the game to PC

A rather colorful map test.

Some Debug Fonts.

Not sure what this is, labeled as Area Map internally.

Some numbers.

Temporary textures.

Enemy Spawn

A plank in four different sizes, meant for measuring textures.

Early Multiplayer Icons.

Unused Flying Mode Indicator.

Flags meant for language selection.

Early splash screen. (As seen in Game Informer. )

HUD textures. The last one is part of the unused Rage powerup. (Which was reworked into its own gamemode).

Textures for an early Warclub and Knife.

An Ankylosaurus texture placeholder.

Test Dalek.

A Raptor texture placeholder.

Waterbug (As seen in early screenshots).

Dire Wolf (As seen in early screenshots).

Hog/Boar (Mentioned in interviews, Concept Art).

Komodo Dragon (Mentioned in interviews, seen in early screenshots).

Kronosaur (Seen on official website and E3 trailer).

Large Bat

Small Bat

Crane

Mammoth (Mentioned in interviews, Concept Art).

Some unused enemy variants. (Crossbow Sleg seen in strategy guide).

Two easter eggs: one of the developers heads, along with the guy from Fatboy Slim's album "You've Come a Long Way, Baby".

This is interesting: some early characters from "Vexx" in it, back when it was called "Jinx"!

One of many console leftovers; specifically, this was used for the GameCube port, for occupied memory blocks.

These were used on the Xbox port.

Leftover Xbox controller.

Legal screen for the GameCube port.

As above, but for the PlayStation 2.

Buttons for the Xbox controller.

D-Pad and analog stick graphics.

Unused Sounds

An unused gun sound. It doesn't fit anywhere in the game.