The official Handy-Turrican (called Turrican2004 in the handy-menue) was developed by Blue Beck, a company which focuses on mobile games. THQ and Siemens sell it only preinstalled on the Siemens M65 (in some countries it seems to be installed on the CX65 too). Turrican2004 uses gfx from the PC and Amiga versions of Turrican 2 and some new ones. It's looking quite good, very colorful (the screenshots everybody has seen had reduced colors) and even paralax scrolling was implemented. But in contrast to the graphics there is no sound at all.
The game features a story, which is told using a bunch of text before every level. Each level belongs to one of three categories:
-The normal jump'n'shoot levels look very much like ordinary Turrican-levels, though they are not as big and diverse. The Turrican 2 weapons are used.
-The jet-pack levels look just like the first category, but instead of jumping you use the jet-pack. The jet-pack has it's own energy-bar, which decreases during flight and increases while the jet-pack is not in use.
-The shot'em up levels are a pleasent surprise as they feature their own weapon-system, including sattelites.
A multiplayer mode is included, but not a very interesting one - two players can not play at the same time, but they have to play one after another and try to score the most points in a given level, fly the longest way using the jet-pack or just survive as long as possible.
Sadly though, Turrican2004 seems to be a disappointment - everybody who played it, reported, that the game runs just to slow.
Thanks to Raoul Birkhold from THQ and Mr TR you can have a look at a PowerPoint presentation about Turrican 2004 in the download section.
Note that an ego-shooter-demo called Turrican2004 is around, too, though there seems to be nothing about Turrican in it - nothing but the name.
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