I'm a devoted fan of Turrican II on the Amiga, and I know every nook and cranny of it. It's nice to see that the level designers took some extra time to create additional areas, filling previously unused space.
I remember back at the day when I rented the game, game starts and I am like "Holy shit, this feels SO MUCH like Turrican 2, it's so clear they ripped-off the game badly here". Then I get to level 2 and I am like "Ok, this indeed is Turrican 2"
@@kemikemi756 this *was* going to be a port of Turrican 2, but when they got the Movie License, they just changed the game to fit the license instead of doing a proper new game for Universal Soldier.
@@rafaellima83 This wasn't unheard of back in the day. Nintendo released Super Mario Bros 2 in Japan, but then Nintendo of America thought American kids wouldn't like it because it was too hard (in fairness they were probably correct). So Nintendo took a totally different Japanese game called Doki Doki Panic, reskinned it into a Mario game, and released it in the west as Super Mario Bros 2. That why SMB2 is completely different from any other Mario game. We did eventually get the Japanese SMB2, but for us it was called The Lost Levels and included in Super Mario All-Stars on SNES.
@@Hahnsoulo Yeah, I think everyone knows about Super Mario Bros 2 by now :) It did happen with a lot of games. Puyo Puyo was reskinned in at least 3 different games (Kirby's Avalanche, Dr Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine, and a Windows Game I can't remember the name but that Microsoft advertised as if it was created by Alexey Pajitnov). Krusty's Super Fun House was just Rat Trap with characters from The Simpsons. The first F1 game by Domark was just Vroom Multiplayer with the F1 License stapled on it. Which was the same thing with Lamborghini American Challenge, just Crazy Cars 3 with a 2 players option and the Lamborghini license. And there were a lot of movie licenses that were games that were already in development where they changed the game to fit the movie tie-in. It was the case with Universal Soldier.... in this case it was more weird because it was a port of game that already existed in another form.
It makes sense since Accolade and Code Monkeys already released ports of Turrican 1 with credit to Factor 5 in the manual and Manfred Trenz in-game (the Genesis' at least) and Turrican 2 ports were in development before they got the movie license. There are unused tracks in this version like the original Title Screen and Ending music, the latter being changed to the High Score music for this.
They also showed this off at WCES '92 before they slapped on the movie license, along with the GB port; sadly no footage or screenshots seem to have made it online, just info in a Nintendo Power magazine.
I remember playing this game and thinking "this is nothing like the movie ". And that's ok. This game was still fun even though it did not look anything close to the movie.
Accolade had the Turrican license on consoles, i guess they figured it'd sell better with a movie license attached? Manfred Trenz is even listed in the credits
Luke Deveraux just want to go home cause his tour is up. He just want to eat. He needs ice. This is Van Damme here folks, he could still shoot weapons but still he should do martial arts in between.
I remember having the GamePro where this was the cover story because that issue had all of the moves for every character in Street Fighter 2: Champion Edition which is what I really bought it for.
For anyone wondering, yes, this is a reskinned Turrican II port, and while the game is an unlicensed MD game, this IS an official, legally released port of the game. Here's a little more context. After Accolade, who had the console rights to Turrican, released The Code Monkey's underwhelming Turrican 1 port (which DID keep the original name), they decided to start work on a straight console port of Turrican II. However, in early 1992 following the Winter Consumer Electronic's show, where they showed off the game behind closed doors, they managed to get the license to develop a game based on the Universal Soldier movie. In an attempt to increase sales, they decided to have Code Monkeys slap the movie license on there and make some changes to the game to [attempt to] fit the license, and thus, the Universal Soldier game was born.
Nah it sounds terrible on the Genesis. Mega Turrican has a great ost though, & is inspired by Chris. Mega Turrican's ost sounds more like the Amiga games than this quick cash-in port did.
@@BoozeAholic The music in Uni Sol is just bearable at best, a definite step up from T1 on Genesis, actually 2 or so songs in Uni Sol actually sound great
The soundtrack could've sounded so much better if they dedicated more sound channels to the actual music rather than voice samples and sound effects. The Amiga version of turrican 2 and especially c64 ports have better music but arguably worse soundchips
The turbo grafx "Gunhed" (aka blazing lazers) is even worse. And people complained that Alien 3 by Acclaim/LJN) was even worse despite being more ALIEN 3 than the film!
Forgive me if this sounds weird but how d u do that roll thing? And when I did the password for the final level it took me back to the beginning. What am I doing wrong?
This was my favorite game as a kid and I played the shit out of it. I have no clue what a Turrican is. Apparently I don't belong here based on these ubernerds in your comment section.
Even the sound fx are almost the same. I wonder if they got sued for coping Turrican?. They had to had a license permission because its 90% the same game.
![Strider Longplay (Sega Genesis) [QHD]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/hzL3Mj12Ilg/mqdefault.jpg)
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I'm a devoted fan of Turrican II on the Amiga, and I know every nook and cranny of it. It's nice to see that the level designers took some extra time to create additional areas, filling previously unused space.
I remember back at the day when I rented the game, game starts and I am like "Holy shit, this feels SO MUCH like Turrican 2, it's so clear they ripped-off the game badly here".
Then I get to level 2 and I am like "Ok, this indeed is Turrican 2"
they couldve at least change the music, right ?
@@kemikemi756 this *was* going to be a port of Turrican 2, but when they got the Movie License, they just changed the game to fit the license instead of doing a proper new game for Universal Soldier.
@@rafaellima83 This wasn't unheard of back in the day. Nintendo released Super Mario Bros 2 in Japan, but then Nintendo of America thought American kids wouldn't like it because it was too hard (in fairness they were probably correct). So Nintendo took a totally different Japanese game called Doki Doki Panic, reskinned it into a Mario game, and released it in the west as Super Mario Bros 2. That why SMB2 is completely different from any other Mario game. We did eventually get the Japanese SMB2, but for us it was called The Lost Levels and included in Super Mario All-Stars on SNES.
@@Hahnsoulo Yeah, I think everyone knows about Super Mario Bros 2 by now :)
It did happen with a lot of games. Puyo Puyo was reskinned in at least 3 different games (Kirby's Avalanche, Dr Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine, and a Windows Game I can't remember the name but that Microsoft advertised as if it was created by Alexey Pajitnov).
Krusty's Super Fun House was just Rat Trap with characters from The Simpsons.
The first F1 game by Domark was just Vroom Multiplayer with the F1 License stapled on it.
Which was the same thing with Lamborghini American Challenge, just Crazy Cars 3 with a 2 players option and the Lamborghini license.
And there were a lot of movie licenses that were games that were already in development where they changed the game to fit the movie tie-in. It was the case with Universal Soldier.... in this case it was more weird because it was a port of game that already existed in another form.
It makes sense since Accolade and Code Monkeys already released ports of Turrican 1 with credit to Factor 5 in the manual and Manfred Trenz in-game (the Genesis' at least) and Turrican 2 ports were in development before they got the movie license. There are unused tracks in this version like the original Title Screen and Ending music, the latter being changed to the High Score music for this.
They also showed this off at WCES '92 before they slapped on the movie license, along with the GB port; sadly no footage or screenshots seem to have made it online, just info in a Nintendo Power magazine.
Haha ... They recycled Turrican 2 totally ... :-)
If they just would have released it as Turrican, I so would have bought and promoted it in 1992!
Guys trust me this happen in the movie totally!!!!
Yeah, right
Haaaa!! I have the movie. I never seen him went through all this lol
Eu adorei este jogo, joguei muitas vezes pq na época o achava bastante difícil, mas o terminei. Gosto de assistir vídeos no RUclips deste jogo.
I remember playing this game and thinking "this is nothing like the movie ". And that's ok. This game was still fun even though it did not look anything close to the movie.
I still remember vividly playing it back in the day and loved the action and the varied gunfire
I loved to shoot the orange blob things too
The movie was set in the 21st century while the game was set in 2200 AD. A huge diffrent in time era.
Accolade had the Turrican license on consoles, i guess they figured it'd sell better with a movie license attached? Manfred Trenz is even listed in the credits
This is the universal soldier, the
Turrican is his name in Japan.
Luke Deveraux just want to go home cause his tour is up.
He just want to eat.
He needs ice.
This is Van Damme here folks, he could still shoot weapons but still he should do martial arts in between.
And He Went AWOL After Sgt. Scott
Discharged...VIOLENTLY!
I quite like this version of T2, in fact its even better designed in some ways, shame the music isnt as great as it could be though.
Played this as a kid because I loved the movie so much and now I found out about Turrican.
I hope JCVD would be the role of a Universal Soldier.
I remember having the GamePro where this was the cover story because that issue had all of the moves for every character in Street Fighter 2: Champion Edition which is what I really bought it for.
Ayy, I was just working on a disassembly of this yesterday.
For anyone wondering, yes, this is a reskinned Turrican II port, and while the game is an unlicensed MD game, this IS an official, legally released port of the game. Here's a little more context.
After Accolade, who had the console rights to Turrican, released The Code Monkey's underwhelming Turrican 1 port (which DID keep the original name), they decided to start work on a straight console port of Turrican II. However, in early 1992 following the Winter Consumer Electronic's show, where they showed off the game behind closed doors, they managed to get the license to develop a game based on the Universal Soldier movie.
In an attempt to increase sales, they decided to have Code Monkeys slap the movie license on there and make some changes to the game to [attempt to] fit the license, and thus, the Universal Soldier game was born.
Is it just me or does that big robot look like DONALD TRUMP 🤔😀😀
Donald Trump as ENDBOSS ... Yes ... That FITS ... :-) ...
@@tsunami3000 ok lib
@@turrican3839 cope harder
WHICH IS THE BETTER version, This or Turrican 2 for the Amiga?
That Chris Hülsbeck Soundtrack. Not as good as on the AMIGA, but still great on Genesis.
Nah it sounds terrible on the Genesis. Mega Turrican has a great ost though, & is inspired by Chris. Mega Turrican's ost sounds more like the Amiga games than this quick cash-in port did.
@@BoozeAholic it sounds fine to me, but yeah mega turrican was good.
@@BoozeAholic The music in Uni Sol is just bearable at best, a definite step up from T1 on Genesis, actually 2 or so songs in Uni Sol actually sound great
@@BoozeAholic Last I checked, Mega Turrican is composed by Chris.
The soundtrack could've sounded so much better if they dedicated more sound channels to the actual music rather than voice samples and sound effects. The Amiga version of turrican 2 and especially c64 ports have better music but arguably worse soundchips
Yeah guys, but playing this and thinking you are Jean Claude Van Damme is worth the price of admission
"Based on the Universal Soldier movie." Yeah, right!
The turbo grafx "Gunhed" (aka blazing lazers) is even worse. And people complained that Alien 3 by Acclaim/LJN) was even worse despite being more ALIEN 3 than the film!
This game honestly gets too much shit only because of the changed graphics
Forgive me if this sounds weird but how d u do that roll thing? And when I did the password for the final level it took me back to the beginning. What am I doing wrong?
I had this game!
This was my favorite game as a kid and I played the shit out of it. I have no clue what a Turrican is. Apparently I don't belong here based on these ubernerds in your comment section.
You actually played Turrican 2, so it's fine to be here
Ich mag diese Interpretation von Turrican 2 sehr 👍
Turrican?
Obviously
Even the sound fx are almost the same.
I wonder if they got sued for coping Turrican?.
They had to had a license permission because its 90% the same game.
Un*fortunately, it's the official console port of Turrican II.
* YMMV
They didn't even credit Chris Hülsbeck!?!? That game should not have existed. It is a catastrophe.
Why did they licence this as universal solider lol? They could have just named it any name by the looks of it
My name is Sargent Andrew Scott.
Where's his necklace full of ears 📿👂👂👂
Ufff la música es una gloria
⏬C awesome feature of this game
Das Spiel hat wirklich SEHR viel mit dem Film gemeinsam..... genau 3 Dinge😐
01:22:30 is that donald trump? (in his "less-fat"-days)
Yes ... and he LOST AGAIN ... :-) ... Will Donald Trump admit defeat ? ... :-) ...
@@tsunami3000 "you finished the game. but you lost. lead programmer ..."
@@oliverbaba1882 Lead Programmer = Deep State
"not a real game. it's fake. a failing fake game for the lying genesis from not beautiful sega."
Many music came from the First Turrican.
Actually, the music here is almost all from T2 - the few tracks that aren't are original, I believe.
@@DeskoDev Yup. This is a port of Turrican 2 with a movie license slapped on it
Non sarà mai il vero turrican
Turdican it looks like and sounds too LOL!
That's because it's Turrican II with a movie license slapped on top of it, plus 3 new stages to replace the sh'mup stages.
Look turrican