The first half of chainsaw leg FPS Turbo Overkill's final episode releases today, and this over-the-top shooter looks like it's gonna stick the landing.
In the wide world of throwback FPSes, Turbo Overkill isn't actually throwing it back too far. Though its creators have roots in the Doom modding scene, Turbo Overkill feels like a successor to Doom Eternal in a similar way to New Blood's Ultrakill.
Episode 3: Part 1's preview didn't surprise me with any new mechanics like Episode 2's smorgasbord of new toys, but it's shaping up to be a nice final exam for everything we've learned—a protracted final level where every one of these mechanics is in play at all times. I found a marked, but not overwhelming increase in difficulty, and I was using every one of these weapons to its fullest.
The first level of the preview, Scrapyard, is above average for the broader field of FPSes but just par for Turbo Overkill—the fights were great, and the level just twisty and surprising. Turbo Overkill trades in overwhelming sci-fi vistas, with most of Episode 1 having a permanent skybox that looked like Ilium from Mass Effect 2, so hanging out in a dump didn't immediately light my world on fire in the same way.
Still, those fights won me over, with the highlights being a particularly massive arena that hosted a multipart wave battle featuring nearly every enemy type introduced in Turbo Overkill so far, as well as a smaller battle in a more constrained, complicated space.
If Scrapyard was just a pretty good level, the second I previewed, Infestation, was a real heater. The best Turbo Overkill levels run long, changing things up multiple times throughout and making you constantly question just how much more level there could be. Infestation starts with some linear shooting and platforming over a massive sci-fi battle set piece in the background before transitioning to a mini collectathon in a semi-open destroyed city.
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