Turbo Overkill Review | TheXboxHub

Cyberpunk Carnage

Simply occurring the identify alone, you’ll know that this isn’t going to a calming farming simulator.

Properly, you’re proper about that, as the newest recreation from Set off Pleased Interactive and Apogee Leisure goes by the identify of Turbo Overkill, billed on the Xbox retailer web page as “Probably the most savage FPS (First Particular person Shooter) ever launched by Apogee”. Coming from the individuals behind Duke Nukem 3D, if that isn’t a ringing endorsement of this product, I don’t know what’s!

So, let’s put together to get savage as we head, as soon as extra, right into a Cyberpunk sort of dystopian future. On a aspect word, I’m heartily sick of cyberpunk as a style, however placing that to at least one aspect, let’s get taking pictures…

A neon-infused DOOM?

As with most FPS video games nowadays, a narrative is normally shoehorned into proceedings someplace, and that is precisely the case right here with Turbo Overkill.

We play as Johnny Turbo (I really feel this will not be his actual identify) and it ought to come as no shock to be taught that Johnny is a cybernetically enhanced one man military, full with hidden arm rockets and a chainsaw leg. That should play havoc with a picket ground…

Anyway, after returning to the house city of Paradise, we uncover that the complete inhabitants has fallen below the management of Syn, a rogue AI. Strapped for money, we tackle the job of eliminating Syn as soon as and for all. So, kill the best (or worst) AI of all time, defeat the rival bounty hunters who wish to declare the prize, and blast our manner via an enslaved inhabitants? What may probably go mistaken?

Retro-Impressed Visuals

The presentation of Turbo Overkill is extraordinarily retro, placing me in thoughts of the original DOOM. The enemies and the environments are suitably pixelated, with every thing getting very blocky certainly when enemies run proper as much as you. The degrees themselves are fairly giant and sprawling, with a multi-level format that works rather well. The platforming components within the recreation, comparable to leaping from boat to boat to cross a stretch of water all look fairly good too.

After all, as it’s a cyberpunk recreation, you’d count on the surroundings to be very neon and Blade Runner-esque, and also you definitely gained’t be upset in that regard.

Turbo Overkill’s Audio and Soundtrack

You’ll discover that the sound of the sport is just about par for the course too, with many gun photographs and numerous explosions to be heard, alongside a pumping soundtrack that retains the motion shifting with momentum. That’s nowhere extra obvious than within the boss fights, which in themselves are nice little sections. The perfect half is the pace that Turbo Overkill runs at, which is tremendous strong all through, with no slowdown of stuttering to be seen.

Turbo Overkill Review 2 — All the same old tropes are right here

Chainsaw Carnage

Now, these kinds of video games stay or die (sorry) on the standard of the gameplay, and right here the builders have excelled. Working, leaping, sliding, wall operating, or coming into slo-mo “Turbo Time”, all the weather are right here and so they mix into a fragile gameplay souffle. Sliding specifically is lots of enjoyable, as after you have a little bit of pace up, you get to unleash the leg chainsaw which can slice and cube any enemies in your manner. You possibly can even use it in boss fights to open them up for important injury.

Out of the field, Johnny has a double bounce, which got here as a shock to me as regardless of taking part in via the tutorial, nowhere is it talked about. Truthfully, for a minute I assumed the sport had crashed when there was a platform I couldn’t stand up, but it surely turned out that there’s a double bounce. Nonetheless, when you become familiar with the motion, Turbo Overkill is kind of harking back to DOOM Eternal, the place every thing appears like it’s on quick ahead, and the quickest set off finger wins!

Weapons, Upgrades, and Augments

Clearly, the weapons that you simply discover make a giant distinction to the sport, and discovering a shotgun laying round, or a pair of sub machine gun sort issues makes issues loads higher. Each weapon additionally has an alternate hearth mode which may be unlocked too, and as standard there are additionally cybernetic upgrades to be discovered, purchased and fitted. Each enemy that we kill provides us money, and that can be utilized at numerous merchandising machines to both run upgrades, purchase ammo or bolster the weapons.

That is at all times an excellent plan because the bosses that crop up are at all times large and nasty, and whereas they’ll take some killing, the hassle is price it, largely as every one gives an increase or particular energy to make use of. Combining all of the weapons, motion expertise and augments turns Johnny right into a killing machine, and it’s right here the place Turbo Overkill actually comes alive.

Turbo Overkill Review 3 — Bonkers. However good bonkers.

Turbo Overkill is Bonkers, However in a Good Approach

Turbo Overkill is bonkers – that particular sort of bonkers that makes you sit again after a set piece combat and suppose “Did I simply survive that?”. It’s quick, livid, and insanely enjoyable, with a cool retro vibe married to modern-day pace and mechanics.

In the event you like a boomer shooter, then that is a straightforward promote. If not, give it a attempt anyway: you would possibly simply be drawn in.