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The dinosaur-slaying comic character Turok made his debut in video games in 1997 with the release of Turok: Dinosaur Hunter, a Nintendo 64 and PC game. This January, the series returned on PS3 and Xbox 360 and has already gone platinum.

Turok’s publisher Touchstone announced that the game has sold 1 million copies since its release. The publisher also announced a new map pack called Velociraptor that will include five multiplayer maps. Of the five maps, two are brand new, one is a fresh co-op map and the remaining two are old maps with some alterations. The Velociraptor pack download can be downloaded from Xbox Live Marketplace and Playstation Store from March 27, 2007 and is priced 400 Microsoft points ($5) on Live and $4.99 on Playstation Network.

Perhaps the following details about the five maps excerpted from the official press release will help you make up your mind about this map pack:

Co-Op - A brand new Turok co-op map for 2-4 players. In this co-op map your Whiskey Company squad has been captured and is being held in a Mendel-Gruman facility designed for holding dinosaurs. You and your team have to break out and make it to the rescue chopper before the Wolf Pack troops decide to feed you to the captured raptors.

Desolation - A brand new swamp-based map where simple structures are set up alongside a rock cliff to allow helicopters and transports into the area to bring in supplies. There are many hiding spots on this multi-level map which enables numerous quiet kill opportunities.

Sentinel - Another new multiplayer map and one of the largest Turok maps to date. The setting takes place at the top of a mountain around one of Kane’s orbital defense arrays - the very base that shot down the Whiskey Company ship from orbit in the single-player campaign. Also, the presence of a few large dinosaurs on the map can make things very interesting during multiplayer combat.

Inconclusive Tests - This time the Testing Grounds map takes place at night and offers a different view of the world that now contains more dark hiding spots. A word of caution—watch out for the raptors.

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