Turbo Esprit (1986) 100% Walkthrough (All Four Cities / Hardest Skill) + Review, ZX Spectrum
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The object of the game is to prevent a gang of drug smugglers completing a delivery of heroin, by tracking down their cars and destroying them, or ramming them into submission. You take the role of a special agent driving the titular Lotus Esprit car, which had been used in a James Bond film a few years previously. You must travel around one of four available cities looking for the criminals. Messages from HQ will flash up periodically giving the location of a target armoured car, which may then be tracked on the map. A courier car would then attempt to rendezvous with the armoured car to transfer the heroin, and the armoured car would then flee the city. Other courier cars would act as decoys.
Wellington (skill 4): 00:29
Gamesborough (skill 4): 18:59
Romford (skill 4): 34:29
Minster (skill 4): 55:24
You can choose to wait until the drug transfer is complete before intercepting the armoured car, or instead attempt to find the one genuine courier car in order to prevent the transfer from taking place.
You have to use a map / radar where you can see where you and the criminals are. The map is huge and you can scroll it with the direction keys or joystick. The armoured car will always be around the middle of the map and the courier cars will come from the sides. When you get the message "Drugs Exchanged" the armoured (red) car will typical seek towards the middle again, while the courier (blue) car will be the one that is going away. When the last exchange on a level has taken place both the armoured car and the courier car will race away, so you are in a bit of a hurry here, but it doesn't matter which one of them you catch first.
Once a drug dealer's car is found it can either be followed, destroyed with the Esprit's built-in machine gun, or repeatedly rammed until it surrenders. Different cars may need to be dealt with in different ways; for example armoured cars must be rammed as shooting has no effect, whereas randomly occurring "hit cars" are the only other vehicles that can match the Esprit for speed, so ramming them is more difficult. Following a drug dealer's car too closely may arouse suspicion and cause them to abort their mission.
Points are scored by apprehending the criminals. Additional points are awarded if they are captured alive (by disabling their car rather than destroying it), and if the heroin transfer has taken place (as there is now greater evidence of their crime).
Penalties are incurred for hitting scenery or other cars, and the player's car is likely to explode if it crashes into anything while travelling fast. As in real life, speeding greatly increases risk.
The game features four free-roaming cities (Wellington, Gamesborough, Minster and Romford) through which you may drive as they see fit. Each city features a grid plan of roads, and each is progressively more difficult; the first city contains many six lane motorway-like roads making speeding and dodging traffic easy, whereas the later ones have more two-lane and one-way roads.
The cities contain many computer-controlled cars, all of which obey basic traffic laws, such as keeping below a set speed limit, stopping at the working traffic lights, moving out of the way of obstacles such as roadworks, and attempting to avoid head-on collisions with the player. They will also stop at zebra crossings to allow waiting pedestrians to cross the road. Contact with or destruction of these cars results in score penalties.
You can run out of fuel so you must stop at petrol stations to refill, and if you have engine damage this will also be fixed here. You have to watch out for your engine temperature, because if you overheat the engine it will explode.
The game was very detailed and advanced for its time, featuring car indicator lights, pedestrians, traffic lights, and a view of the car's interior controls. It may also feature the earliest example of a free-roaming city environment in a computer game. Turbo Esprit was the first free-roaming driving game, and has been cited as a major influence on the later Grand Theft Auto series.
According to author Mike Richardson, Turbo Esprit took 10 months to develop, the longest time he ever spent on a single game. It was developed with the cooperation of Lotus Cars Ltd., who provided "technical assistance".
The game was published by Durell Software Ltd in 1986.
Rating = 97%
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What a fantastic game. No wonder it took 10 months to create. There was nothing at all like it at the time. Truly unique.
One of my favorites. Spent hours just cruising.
Insane how much ahead of it's time this game was.
Damn. Loved this game. Remember having to press fire to turn left or right. Gameplay is impressive for its time
Can't remember another game like it, till Driver on the PS1.
Very cool game. Never ever played it properly: used to go round shooting and running over pedestrians. And I was only 10!
Loved this game. Paved the way for many AAA games of today.
Probably the best home computer game of the 1980's. The pre-curser to GTA. Well balanced. Real pressure to focus. A sense of achievement, if you managed to stop all the cars.
Game is underrated n so deep. Way before it's time it's literally first 3d sandbox gta. I use to play as a kid only from watching your vid now i realise don't shoot the drug car till swap lol. I use to just drive by as a kid shooting 😆
Прекрасный прообраз GTA. Впервые поиграл в неё в 1993.
Red star👍
I played this game all the time as a kid. Just hearing the music again made me feel weird, but in a good way. Thanks.
Nostalgy? That feeling has a name
Needs a remaster with smoother frame rate and more colors
It kind of got a remake, as it is seen as the grandfather to GTA, and GTA got a Spectrum port: th-cam.com/video/HnnwT1BMLS4/w-d-xo.html
First GTA ever.. ❤
One of the games I'll be returning to once I get my Next V2 :)
Another big like dropped 👍
Wow, what have video games become. This is just insane bro
Misto Boss
wow nice game .. why every 10-20seconds is the green card popping up? was it because there was not enough space or ram or whatever :D ? can somebody. please explain?
You have to use the map to see where the criminals are going. It pops up when you want it to pop up 😊
@@MZX-RG ah i understand haha. thanks !
Its pretty clearly a map thought. Sorry if I was rude 😂
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