Turrican II: The Final Fight is a platformer/shooter as typically seen on consoles, but designed for home computers from the ground up.

Its plot is - naturally - very simple: an evil mega-robot called "The Machine" attacks the United Planets Ship Avalon 1, slaughtering all who resist. All - except Bren McGuire, who manages to escape and slips into the experimental Turrican bionic armor. As Turrican, he strives to show The Machine who's the boss.

Unlike other games of its type, Turrican II also contains three levels of horizontal shooter action in the spirit of R-Type or the developers' own Katakis. Six large worlds are to be explored, where you are basically free to go everywhere you want, since there is no automatic scrolling and the levels are packed with hidden extra lives and weapons. All those levels are very different: the first one in the rock desert is pretty colorful with parallaxing rainbow background and happy music, while the following worlds get darker and darker.

Turrican can get some different weapons for his arm cannon:

the bounce weapon which rebounds from surfaces into smaller bouncing balls when powered up
the laser, which can shoots beams as large as Turrican himself when maxed out
the multiple shot beam, which can shoot up to 5 beams covering approximately a 90 degree angle

The Turrican suit weaponry is not limited to the arm cannon however:

he also can fire a continuous beam, activated by holding the fire button. This beam can be rotated around Turrican, so it is possible to blast things below him in this way
additionally, he can fire power lines by pressing the space bar, resulting in two energy bars as high as the screen going from the Turrican suit to the left and right of the screen, severely damaging enemies in the process
if the space bar is pressed when the hero is crouching, the Turrican will morph into a shuriken shape. In this state, it will roll to the left or the right, damaging enemies while being invincible and small bombs can be dropped by pressing the fire button
finally, the most powerful attack, which can only be used one time per life, can be delivered by pressing the fire button and the space bar at the same time. The Turrican suit will morph into a shuriken shape and fly around the screen for several seconds, while firing shots of the different weapons in multiple directions

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Alternate Titles

"Turrican 2" -- Common spelling

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User Reviews

One of the best platformers ever made. Period.

phlux

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The Press Says

CU Amiga	Feb, 1991	94 out of 100	94
Zzap!	Mar, 1991	93 out of 100	93
Retrogaming.it	Mar 07, 2008	9 out of 10	90
Zero	Feb, 1991	90 out of 100	90
ACE (Advanced Computer Entertainment)	Apr, 1991	898 out of 1000	90
Amiga Joker	Mar, 1991	89 out of 100	89
Amiga Action	May, 1991	86 out of 100	86
Power Play	Apr, 1991	85 out of 100	85
Amiga Format	Mar, 1991	80 out of 100	80

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Trivia

Some easter eggs:

- shoot the very first "EXIT" arrow (pointing down), it will increase your score

- on one of the shoot-em-up levels (just before the vertical rocks I think), a heli with a "KATAKIS LIVES" banner would appear, shooting it resulted in a nice reward

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