MobyRank MobyScore
DOS
...
3.6
ZX Spectrum
...
3.0
Atari ST
...
3.1

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

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User Reviews

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

The Press Says

CU Amiga Amiga Feb, 1991 94 out of 100 94
Zero Atari ST Feb, 1991 91 out of 100 91
Retrogaming.it Amiga Mar 07, 2008 9 out of 10 90
Amiga Joker Amiga Mar, 1991 89 out of 100 89
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
PC Player (Germany) DOS Nov, 1995 64 out of 100 64
PC Games (Germany) DOS Dec, 1995 63 out of 100 63

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Trivia

The previously-mentioned 'Katakis lives' banner refers to an old Rainbow Arts shoot 'em up which was quickly removed from sale after a lawsuit from Irem, due to its similarities to R-Type - a similar situation to The Great Giana Sisters' Mario cloning. A few months later, Katakis resurfaced as Denaris, which was tinkered with slightly.


This entry was contributed by Quapil Bronze Star Contributing Member (4782), Kabushi (48701), Martin Smith (64035) and phlux Bronze Star Contributing Member (4157)
 

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