Turrican II: The Final Fight

Description

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 Commander Bren McGuire, who can escape and slip into the experimental Turrican bionic armor. As Turrican, he strives to show 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 normal blaster, the ball weapon which rebounds from surfaces, the laser, which shoots beams as large as Turrican himself, and the multi-beam, which shoots in 180 degree directions. He also can shoot with a continuous beam which can be activated by pressing and holding the fire button. This beam can be rotated around Turrican so it's possible to blast things below him in this way.

Alternate Titles

• "Turrican 2" -- Common spelling

Part of the Following Groups

• Compilation: Play the Games Vol. 1: Der 10 Spiele Super-Pack
• Turrican series

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User Reviews

One of the best platformers ever made. Period.	Amiga	phlux (4157)
Better than the Amiga version!	DOS	Ali Jakamy (8)
The ultimate platform.	DOS	Tomer Gabel (4476)

The Press Says

Zzap!	Commodore 64	Feb, 1991	96 out of 100	96
Zzap!	Amiga	Mar, 1991	93 out of 100	93
Zero	Amiga	Feb, 1991	90 out of 100	90
ACE (Advanced Computer Entertainment)	Atari ST	Apr, 1991	899 out of 1000	90
Retrogaming.it	Amiga	Mar 07, 2008	9 out of 10	90
Power Play	Amiga	Apr, 1991	85 out of 100	85
Power Play	Commodore 64	Apr, 1991	81 out of 100	81
Amiga Format	Amiga	Mar, 1991	80 out of 100	80
Power Play	Atari ST	Apr, 1991	79 out of 100	79
Retrogaming History	Atari ST	Jun 04, 2009	7 out of 10	70

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Trivia

Did you know that the alien complex in the "Turrican 2" extro was inspired by "The Book Of Alien" from 1979. A sketch of comic artist Moebius.