Still working through finishing this game but holy crap this is such a letdown by comparison to Turok 1.
My main issues are:

-Levels (and especially later one) are extremely convoluted. (I couldn't finish the bug level).
-Maps are barely helpful.
-Enemy collisions are wack. You have to be extremely precise with your aim. (Unless I'm supposed to use auto-aim)?
~Music is forgettable but that's just a minor problem.

I almost never review a game before finishing but this was so bad I felt I had to give a warning to not buy this. I will try to complete Turok 2 and update if I change my mind. (Maybe it's like a search action game and I have to collect items from another level to finish a different one)? I really hope Turok 3 is better because I played the first recently and it holds up better than Unreal and Half-Life.

A much more expanded sequel compared to the first, more weapons, more enemies, more lore and narration and more variety with levels.

You also have to unlock skills to progress further in some of the levels (akin to Powerslave and Metroid Prime) as well as getting parts of the last weapon (in the same way as the Chronoscepter of the first entry) and the final key (akin to the first game's).

The only downside is that you can get easily lost in some of the levels (especially the one with the cavern maze) but thankfully you have a Doom-esque automap to see where you've been already.

It worked once I got to options set up a few graphics things and turned down the music a little bit played for the 11 mins and I shut down my PC to come back to it later. Went to play the game 1 hr later I got the TUROK 2 loading image and thats was it blue spinning circle and then HORUS64.EXE

I tried to find a fix found one for missing C++ Visual Studio but already have the latest version installed so I got a refund, shame to hear that iconic main music again brought back memories of my N64 days.