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Turbo Overkill
Released On: Jul 18, 2023
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Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
91
73% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
0% Mixed
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0% Negative
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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.
Rarely have I experienced such a thrilling rush of action and acrobatics, and if you're even remotely in the mood for that, don't miss Turbo Overkill.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 38 User Ratings
7.6
68% Positive
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18% Mixed
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13% Negative
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 38 User Ratings
7.6
68% Positive
26 Ratings
26 Ratings
18% Mixed
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
13% Negative
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
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.
Turbo Overkill is full of non-stop madness, adrenaline, blood and gore. You can’t find anything like it, anywhere on the market.
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.
Everything is frantic, fast-paced, and depicted with excessive amounts of graphical and auditory flair. If you enjoyed the fast and frantic pace of Doom Eternal, this game will scratch the very same FPS itch. [Early Access Review Score = 85]
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.
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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Honestly one of the best first person shooters I've ever played period. It's so outrageous and over the top almost all of the time, superb soundtrack, sublime gunplay, great level design and somehow it just gets better and better the more you play.
For the price you cannot go wrong, truly excellent.
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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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