Turbo Overkill
July 18, 2023
HALF-METAL, HALF-HUMAN, HALF-CRAZY Heavily inspired by some of the all-time greats like Doom, Duke Nukem and Quake, with stunning cyberpunk visuals, Turbo Overkill is the most savage FPS ever released by Apogee. You play as half-metal, half-human, half-crazy Johnny Turbo, augmented with hidden arm rockets and a chainsaw that extends …
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Critic Reviews (25)
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70.0
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45.0
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30.0
"Turbo Overkill is pure adrenaline shot in vein. It is excessive, frantic, visceral and, above all, very beastly. A boom shooter that has references to the greats of the old school, but knows how to implement a host of modern …"
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80.0
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92.0
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15.0
"By understanding and amplifying what makes classic shooters so fun, Turbo Overkill proves to be a very entertaining and, honestly, essential piece of work for fans of the Boomer Shooter subgenre. Agile and surprising like few titles on the market, …"
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98.0
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100.0
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95.0
"It lacks a compelling story, and its efforts to vary things up are not always successful, but Turbo Overkill is a consistently exciting and often great-looking shooter. Like Cultic, it is a startling example of how much can be achieved …"
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85.0
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90.0
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60.0
"Turbo Overkill puts petal to the metal and doesn&s;t let up, providing a fresh and bombastic retro-inspired FPS experience."
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98.0
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100.0
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96.0
"Turbo Overkill is part of a rapidly growing renaissance of classically-styled first-person shooters. While modern conveniences apply here, the crux of Trigger Happy Interactive&s;s offering is to allow players to rampage through absurd scenarios."
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90.0
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85.0
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75.0
"Turbo Overkill is a dark and grungy FPS adventure from Trigger Happy Interactive that takes advantage of its scenario to provide hours of interesting and exciting levels. The fast-paced movement and variety of ways to defeat your enemies almost make …"
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45.0
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70.0
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50.0
"Turbo Overkill starts off great. The fast paced movement, shooting, exploration works well as a whole, but the deeper you get in the game, the more platforming rear its ugly head and ruins the complete experience. I had flashbacks of …"
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75.0
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80.0
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70.0
"Turbo Overkill is a frenetic and unscrupulous FPS, at times exhilarating in pace and variety. It is precisely its excesses, however, that may make it less appealing than expected to more purist shooter fans. Indeed, the relentless pursuit of exaggerated …"
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85.0
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92.0
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75.0
"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."
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65.0
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90.0
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75.0
"Taking inspiration from shooters of the 90&s;s, Turbo Overkill is as much a delight as they were back in the day. A few modern tweaks don&s;t deviate from formula, making it a welcome inclusion to anyone old enough to know …"
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85.0
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90.0
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40.0
"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."
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65.0
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80.0
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70.0
"Overall, Turbo Overkill is a decent first-person shooter that oozes personality. It might be a little rough around the edges, but the action, music, and creepy AI-based story is enough to whet the appetite of genre fans."
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30.0
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70.0
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60.0
"Turbo Overkill is a great game that contains quite open worlds. The game offers platforming combined with a lot of shooting and that works quite well. The gameplay is the highlight of the game, although each level seems a bit …"
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60.0
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90.0
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30.0
"Turbo Overkill is an FPS that blasts through carnage-filled levels at full speed, making it one of the most explosive, fun, and even hypnotic games currently available on consoles."
Read original review"While it can be rough around the edges at times, there’s no question that this retro shooter has panache"
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70.0
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85.0
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"Turbo Overkill is definitely one of ‘those’ games, but it is a very well done one of those. I had a lot of fun mowing my way through it, and I cannot stress enough how much fun the chainsaw leg …"
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65.0
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70.0
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"In wrapping up, Turbo Overkill delivers a distinctive fusion of humour, breakneck action, and imaginative gameplay mechanics for a boomer shooter. While this throwback FPS boasts numerous strengths including its concept, humour, and visual flair, it doesn&s;t come without certain …"
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70.0
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80.0
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75.0
"If you enjoyed the fast and frantic pace of Doom Eternal, this game will scratch the very same FPS itch."
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86.0
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88.0
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78.0
"Turbo Overkill is full of non-stop madness, adrenaline, blood and gore. You can&s;t find anything like it, anywhere on the market."
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85.0
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90.0
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"Turbo Overkill is one of our favourite boomer shooters, modern or otherwise. Johnny Turbo&s;s chainsaw-sliding, wall-running and grappling combine with slo-mo silliness to provide a whole lot of punchy murderizing that&s;s a joy to get down and dirty with. Paradise …"
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100.0
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100.0
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"Absurd, unrelenting and endlessly creative, Turbo Overkill is a masterfully composed symphony of violence."
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20.0
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"Turbo Overkill, despite its great visuals and gameplay loop, is constantly stuck in the shadow of the media that inspired it. The story is unremarkable, the references to other entries in the genre become distracting after a bit, and there …"
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85.0
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75.0
"Trigger Happy Interactive’s Turbo Overkill, which is published quite appropriately by Apogee Entertainment, has made the leap without becoming a lesser experience."
Read original review"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 …"
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20.0
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"I gotta tell you, Turbo Overkill is perfect. Every last bit of it."
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