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- Apogee Entertainment
- Apogee Entertainment
- Apogee Entertainment
- Apogee Entertainment
Turbo Overkill
Released On: Jul 18, 2023
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
87
67% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
8% Mixed
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1 Review
0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
87
67% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
8% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
By just about every single metric for evaluating a boomer shooter, Turbo Overkill excels and delivers in spades. I had a near limitless amount of agency to play as I want and still enjoy a boomer shooter experience without frills, gimmicks, and other artificial difficulty spikes. It oozes creativity while taking players on an exhilarating ride through a cyberpunk apocalypse. It’s the perfect blend of gore, seriousness, and silliness. Turbo Overkill is a literal spectacle of unfettered, high-octane boomer shooter gameplay. Call it a symphony of destruction, mayhem, gore, and violence. Call it bloody good fun. Call it whatever you want, really, so long as fun is somewhere in that mix. The world of Turbo Overkill is one worth exploring and desecrating with Johnny Turbo’s chainsaw leg.
Absurd, unrelenting and endlessly creative, Turbo Overkill is a masterfully composed symphony of violence.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 50 User Ratings
8.0
74% Positive
37 Ratings
37 Ratings
16% Mixed
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
10% Negative
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 50 User Ratings
8.0
74% Positive
37 Ratings
37 Ratings
16% Mixed
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
10% Negative
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
I have not finished this game but I just really felt I had to say a few things about it.This is one of the greatest examples of what a small new studio with a brand new IP and a very limited budget can do when time and opportunity is given to people with incredible talent and video game design understanding. I have played so many shooters from huge AAA titles to AA to indies and truly very few can come even close to how this game is managing to capture the old school boomer shooter aesthetic while at the same time looking super modern and have amazing graphics. The combat is just so fast, so satisfying with some of the most spot on sound design and fps mechanics I've ever experienced.
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It is the most fun I've had in a very long time plain and simple nothing more to it.
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Turbo Overkill is an action game that throws in pop-culture references
at every step and draws heavily on the genre’s achievements but combines
everything it borrows in a surprisingly creative way. And unlike many
retro shooters that end after four hours, you can actually get your fill
of this one.
With a name like Turbo Overkill, one is correct to assume that it is full of that cheesy madness, which is exactly what it delivers as it fully embraces the Boomer Shooter subgenre. Turbo Overkill is an encapsulation of absurdity, trying to push itself to the heights of stupendous fun through its creative weapons, augmentations and dumb, wild scenarios while offering plenty of mechanics and rapid gameplay to satisfy those old-school action lovers. With its superb throwback visuals, quality soundtrack, outlandish level design, and hyper-bloody action that never seems to let up, Turbo Overkill is a great recommendation for anyone looking for a quality and thrilling first-person shooter in 2023.
The nostalgic action ride will mainly be enjoyed by veterans, but every lover of the genre should give it a chance, because it is very addictive.
Turbo Overkill loses itself in its constant push for escalation. It’s often not as clever as it thinks it is, and there’s a real sense of quantity over quality. Packing in more mechanics is certainly a type of progress, but a better focus on fewer concepts probably would have elevated the game as a whole. As it is, it’s still a perfectly fun time, and I’d be completely willing to revisit it in a sequel, but it just doesn’t quite climb to the lofty top of the retro-inspired scrap heap.
A nice reference to classic first-person shooters. What adds to the similarity, besides the brisk bloody gameplay, is the game's visuals, which are a nice combination of 3D models and pixel graphics. The gameplay experience is complemented by the metallic music, which underlines the brutality of the game perfectly. [Issue#319]
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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God this is the fastest game I've ever played and it's also a shooter which is a big plus for me. There are excellent levels where you can fly in a car, ride a motorcycle and run on furs. But there are also obviously unfortunate disadvantages that lead to a lengthy narrative, which is the main disadvantage of the game, this is protractedness.
And so, the experiment is successful and even with great music.
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Summary Johnny Turbo needs to clean up Paradise, a cyber city overrun by augmented minions under the cult control of the world's most advanced AI, Syn, who's looking to expand to world domination if not stopped here and now. Wall-running, Hero-Time, chain saw leg augments, flying cars and lots of booms.
Platforms:
- PC
- PlayStation 5
- Xbox Series X
- Nintendo Switch
- PlayStation 4
- Xbox One
Initial Release Date: Jul 18, 2023
Developer:
- Trigger Happy Interactive
Publisher: Apogee Entertainment
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