In 1999 first informations of a new Turrican sequel were published by THQ, current owners of "Turrican" and everything else belonging to Rainbow Arts. Although the screenshots of Turrican's first 3D incarnation looked promising, it was canceled.
The development of Turrican 3D was a cooperation of Manfred Trenz, inventor of Turrican and coder of the C64 versions, and Allvision, a company focused on architecture and multimedia. This surely does not sound like the right company for a new Turrican but considering the screenshots and videos available, they were at least quite comfortable with 3D graphics. The early videos already showed off huge and nicely modeled environments while later screenshots especially feature a beautiful, metallic Turrican suit.
Speaking of gameplay is of course very speculative, but a video interview done by the German mag PC Action sheds some light on the very game itself. Controls should have been Mario 64 oriented - a nice fit as Turrican always was a Mario clone in this area. This implies a consolish gameplay, obviously the right thing for Turrican, but also a bad thing for a PC game, if sales matter. Aiming at the wrong system might have been the original failure of Turrican 3D. How the shooting should have worked - for example auto aiming or mouse aiming - was never mentioned. Following the tradition of Turrican, huge weapons, environments and bosses were planned, while the weapon system looked to be based on Rendering Ranger. Even a space ship level should have been in there, probably Starfox oriented. The levels themselves should have been following directly on each other; nothing like Jak&Daxter, but rather like Sonic 3, I guess.
A new story, based on a new enemy (purple machine becomes boring, doesn't he?) was in development, but nothing is known about it.
Nothing was ever known about the soundtrack either, except that Chris Hülsbeck was not involved.
There are around 50 screenshots available, 3 early videos, showing the terrain, the mentioned video interview by PC Action and some short sequences in a video by Abgehörte Telefonate.
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