But you'll probably be too busy admiring (and fighting) the menagerie of mechanical or mutant spiders, birds, lobsters, and other monstrosities to gawk at the scenery. The side-scrolling environments are lush and throw out every visual effect in the Genesis console's book of tricks. Now, some 12 years later, however, Sega has taken the necessary steps to correct that oversight by making Alien Soldier available as a download for the Wii's Virtual Console service.Įach of the game's 25 stages consists of a short area populated with scrubby enemies, followed by a set piece encounter with a large, often multisegmented beast that has multiple attacks and a massive health meter. Sadly, players in North America weren't invited to the party. And what a hurrah it was: a visually intense 2D action game made up almost entirely of boss battles. The catchphrases seen on the title screen, "FOR MEGADRIVERS CUSTOM" and "VISUALSHOCK! SPEEDSHOCK! SOUNDSHOCK! NOW IS TIME TO THE 68000 HEART ON FIRE!", describe the game's technical prowess for the Mega Drive hardware, at the core of which is the Motorola 68000 CPU.For Megadrive (aka Sega Genesis) owners living in Japan or Europe, Alien Soldier was their last hurrah before the 16-bit consoles gave way to the 32-bit Sega Saturn and Sony PlayStation.
The game is listed in Guinness World Records Gamers Edition 2010 under the category "Most boss battles in a run and gun game". The game was re-released again on the Nintendo Wii's Virtual Console download service in Japan on October 9, 2007, in Europe on November 2, 2007, and North America debut on November 5, 2007. Also, the player can select either the sprite-based pixelated graphics of the original game or a new mode that uses certain filters to produce a high-resolution look. The Sega Ages version, whose disc also includes Treasure's Gunstar Heroes and Dynamite Headdy, exceeds the Mega Drive's intrinsic sprite display limit, which eliminates slowdowns or missing graphics during busy scenes (e.g. The game was playable in America on the Sega Channel cable service and has been reissued for PlayStation 2 as part of the Sega Ages Treasure Box disc. The game was released in Japan and Europe, but not physically in the US (one of the few to be released in this pattern), but it can be rather expensive due to its rarity in either region. Alien Soldier (エイリアンソルジャー?) is a side-scrolling run and gun video game developed by Treasure for the Sega Mega Drive.
0 kommentar(er)
