Parkour, chainsaw foot and a lot of blood: a gameplay trailer for the cyberpunk retro shooter Turbo Overkill
New Zealand studio Trigger Happy Interactive has unveiled a five-minute gameplay trailer for the Turbo Overkill retro shooter set in a cyberpunk setting. The game will be released on PC ( Steam ) “soon.”
Turbo Overkill takes place in the futuristic metropolis of Neo-Paradise. The streets have been taken over by machines of flesh and metal spawned by artificial intelligence. An unnamed janitor will have to deal with them, who also has mechanical parts – a chainsaw is built into his leg. “Your contract is simple: destroy them all.”
Over the course of three episodes, players will deal with enemies using weapons, each type of which has additional modes of fire. Chainsaw on foot will allow you to attack while sliding on the surface. In the video, the hero shoots with two hands and uses smart pistols. There will be both “street thugs with augmentation” and “huge monsters of flesh and metal among the opponents.” The developers warn that there will be a lot of violence and gore in Turbo Overkill.
You can also use implants that grant different abilities, including double jump, full-body control in the air, and special attacks with a chainsaw. You will have to move around the labyrinthine city in different ways: for example, you can see how the hero runs along the walls in the video. Users will be offered to fight and look for secrets – starting with collectible cassettes and ending with whole additional levels.
According to the authors, the gameplay mechanics of Turbo Overkill are inspired by classic shooters like Doom, Duke Nukem, and Quake, and the world was created under the influence of cyberpunk and vaporwave aesthetics.
The first teaser for Turbo Overkill was published in April 2020. Since then, the creators have regularly shared screenshots and gameplay snippets on Twitter. The studio’s YouTube channel also has a song Halfmetal Hero from the game’s soundtrack.
The exact timing of the release of Turbo Overkill is unknown. The shooter will be released in English only. The Steam page states that it will fully support controllers.
In March, the studio 3D Realms called the release date Aftershock additions to retroshuteru Ion Fury 2019. Also, recently it became known the release date on Steam of another representative of this direction (but already two-dimensional) – Huntdown from Easy Trigger Games, the PC version of which can be bought only in the Epic Games Store.
