Atari promoted the game with the slogan "Are you devious enough to beat Xevious?" and closed the commercial with a tag line branding it "the arcade game you can't play at home."
In 1983, Xevious was the first arcade game to have a television commercial aired for it for the North American market. The graphics were revolutionary for their time, and characters are rendered with remarkable clarity and effect through careful use of shades of gray and palette-shifting. Xevious was an early, but not the first, vertically scrolling shooter, and greatly influenced games in this genre. Meanwhile, archaeologists Susan Meyer and Akira Sayaka discovered that the Nazca lines could be hiding an ancient weapon that may be used to counterattack Gamp's army. The invasion has begun: it is now that, with perfect timing, Mu, Eve, and Mio Veetha, a Xevian who opposes the Gamp's regime and freed our duo from imprisonment, are back on the Earth on their Solvalou ship and ready to fight Gamp's army. įast forward to our days: all above the Earth's surface, and near the ancient civilization remains, giant artifacts suddenly emerge from the soil and activate: they are SOL towers, buried underground and inactive for eons, now responding to GAMP's orders. They would not receive a warm welcome from their ancestors, though: captured and imprisoned, they discovered that the Xevians were actually planning a massive comeback on the Earth.
#Xevious resurrection i android
It is from here that a thousand years after the leaving of the Gamps, the brave pilot Mu and his android companion Eve decided to travel to Xevious (literally, the fourth planet) to avoid glaciation. Right before the departure, a group of humans rebelled and decided to stay on the earth anyway. They finally selected seven planets that were likely suitable to human life. In order to survive the upcoming Ice Age, they planned to leave earth and migrate in search of a new homeland. During this golden age, the Gamps were human clones used in heavy labor, until they rebelled against their own creators. It turns out that the Xevious inhabitants are originally from Earth, and GAMP (General Artificial Matrix Producer) is the product of an ancient civilization that prospered on earth a hundred thousand years ago. Xevious tells the story of the fight between humankind and the biocomputer GAMP, which controls the alien forces of planet Xevious. In Xevious the flag gives the player an extra life when collected, something carried over to subsequent Namco games. Among these is the "special flag" which first appeared in Rally-X.
Xevious has hidden bonuses which are not mentioned in the instructions, but can be revealed by performing a secret maneuver. As the Solvalou continuously flies forward, it is possible to advance without defeating any enemies. If the player dies, play will normally resume from the start of the area - but if the player has completed at least 70% of the current area before dying, play will resume from the start of the next area instead. The Solvalou continually advances over varying terrain, and the boundaries between areas are marked only by dense forests being flown over. The game scrolls through 16 areas, looping back to Area 7 after Area 16. Giant floating Andor Genesis motherships appear in certain areas these must be defeated by knocking out their cores, and are considered one of the first level bosses to be incorporated into a video game. Ground enemies are a combination of stationary bases and moving vehicles, most of which also fire slow-moving bullets at the player. There are various aerial enemy aircraft which fire relatively slow-moving bullets at the player, as well as (presumably unpiloted) fast-moving projectiles and exploding black spheres. The game, presumably set in Peru, was notable for the varied terrain below, which included forests, airstrips, enemy bases, and mysterious Nazca Lines-like drawings on the ground. The player must use an 8-way joystick to pilot a combat aircraft called a Solvalou, which is armed with a forward-firing Zapper for aerial targets and a Blaster which fires an unlimited supply of air-to-surface bombs for ground targets. The beginning of a regular game of Xevious.
0 kommentar(er)
