If you want a modern-looking FPS, this isn’t it. While I really liked TO’s design sense though, it might not be your cup of Joe. While you probably won’t be humming the game’s tunes afterwards, you’ll likely enjoy it just fine while you’re playing. It’s exactly what you’d expect from a ‘cyberpunk’ title, and hits the nail firmly on the head in that way. I’ll add that the music is mostly great too. It has that 90s feel to it, but at the same time manages to look fairly current-gen. When paired together, all of this adds up to a wholly unique visual experience. And on a larger scale, there are some really excellent looking environments happening here too (though those tend to mix it up). Yes, the game will throw some retro-ish baddies at you for sure, but it also has some shockingly cool lighting effects. I feel pretty comfortable saying you won’t confuse it for something from 1996. While there are definitely parts of TO that look crafted to reflect older games, in effect it’s got a kind of mixed presentation. PC gamers have sene a bunch of those recently, but that’s really not the case here. You know what I mean a game that’s made to look like it could have seen launch some time in the 90s. Kinda retro, mostly modernįor some reason, I was under the impression that Turbo Overkill was a ‘retro’ FPS. So much like in almost every big-studio title that sees release these days, you can upgrade Johnny and his weaponry as you play. On the flip side though, the game offers upgrade systems. Just be ready to die a lot and restart from a checkpoint. And even if you don’t honestly, it’s not all that steep of a learning curve. If you remember the lighting fast action of FPS’ gone by though, you should be right at home in TO. Somebody’s not gonna be happy with that minigun, but it’s not Johnny And given just how unrelenting and brutal the action is in TO, he’s going to need all that and more. His Shotgun can be charged as well, and discharge a stunning burst of electricity. Johnny’s twin pistols, for example, can charge up and launch heat-seeking rounds. That’s not for lack of cool hardware though, because Turbo Overkill has some great stuff, and each weapon comes complete with an alt-fire mode that can turn the tide of a battle in no time. It’s way more useful than it might sound, and pretty quickly became one of my favored ways to carve up bad guys. With a running start, he can pop that saw out and slide right through enemies in a glorious shower of gibs. One of Turbo Overkill’s more unique elements, Johnny is indeed equipped with a chainsaw in his leg. Sometimes that even includes his chainsaw-equipped leg. And like any hardened, cybernetically-augmented badass, he’s gonna take Syn down by any means necessary. Johnny heads back to his home city of Paradise, to find this mess exploding on its streets. Shades of System Shock? Maybe a bit, but it’s also a pretty cool element, and one that plays out very nicely in Turbo Overkill’s in-game cut-scenes. They’re not too prettyĪn AI virus, Syn has begun infecting augmented humans, and twisting them to its will. Actually, maybe there is a pretty neat little twist to Turbo Overkill’s story, and it comes in the form of Syn. You have your flying cars, you have your grafted-on weaponry and robotic parts, and you have your viruses. Yes, there are a bunch of pretty familiar themes at play in TO’s gritty world, and none of them are likely to shock fans of the genre. It’s the far future in Turbo Overkill, and naturally it’s a ‘cyberpunk’ one. ![]() And if you remember the first-person shooters of decades gone by, you might want to have a peek. ![]() Turbo Overkill is a semi-retro FPS that hails from Apogee and Trigger Happy Interactive. And now that name is back once again, this time with an fresh IP. In the last few years though, Apogee has released a few updated classics, as well as an all-new Rise of the Triad. While the company did release (the original) Prey, it had pretty much dropped off the face of the Earth til recently. One of the biggest PC game publishers in the late 80s and 90s, Apogee published games like Rise of the Triad, Wolfenstein 3D, and yes Duke Nukem. Remember Apogee? The publisher is back in action, and together with Trigger Happy, has an all-out action-fest on PC with Turbo Overkill.
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