![]() Tyrian 2000 was a very fun game back when I first played it, and it’s still a fun little distraction today. Did you think I was kidding about Carrot Ships and Hotdog Rockets? Final Thoughts For its time, Tyrian 2000 had a lot that its peers didn’t have. And you’ll have to upgrade your generator too to keep your weapons firing at optimal rates. You can take hits because you’re going to need to-this game doesn’t like you going through levels unscathed! Your damage tolerance can be upgraded by purchasing better ships and shields. To make things more fun, you can also purchase two “sidekicks” that add their own firepower to your ship, providing even more bullets-galore goodness!Īnd you don’t just die from getting hit once or twice. You have your rear-weapons that can shoot diagonally, sideways, or a forwards as well. Weapon-wise, you have your front guns that shoot straight-ahead. It makes for a game that engages you beyond just the usual joys of a bullet hell scrolling shooter. What makes it stand apart is the ability to customize your ship before each mission, the variety of ships (and hidden ships!), and the amount of story that you can get out of this game by picking up the datacubes strewn about in each level. ![]() You zoom around, you dodge enemy fire, you shoot down your foes, and you tackle humongous bosses. It’s your usual scrolling-background vertical shooter. Sure there’s your big bad space ship, and then you have maybe a runaway hover train that’s lobbing a gazillion bullets at you, but you’ll also run into sentient robot space rocks, giant spider-crab-Lovecraftian abominations, and a strange construction lifter with three glowing balls. Through five episodes with missions taking you through all sorts of worlds and asteroid fields, you’re going to be blazing through plenty of baddies and taking on various big bosses. Soon, Trent finds out that the attack was the work of none other than the evil MicroSol Corporation.Īnd so Trent sets off to dodge MicroSol while reaching out to the free worlds to find help and get to the bottom of the whole Gravitium case. In what seems like a random attack, Trent’s lizard-like alien buddy, Buce, is killed because he knew of the strange mineral. But there’s a secret that Tyrian holds that will bring chaos to the planet and its surrounding sectors: Gravitium, an ore mineral that can control and defy gravity. A space engineer who’s gone to a planet called Tyrian for a terraforming survey assignment. You could even pilot a flying carrot and blow enemies up with high-explosive hot dogs, banana bombs, and orbital drone oranges! Planetary exodus and everyone’s fleeing? Blast them anyways because you want money! Madness-inducing Cthulhu-ish-Crab-Xenomorph Beast Boss Creature? Well, since you can’t run away from it-KILL IT!!Īnd there were all the hidden goodies and secret ships, too. And it was glorious fun!Įvil, corporate-owned space ships? Shoot’em down! Giant mining craft doing nothing wrong but floating your way? Tear them apart! Giant spikes coming out of the wall because who-the-heck-knows? Destroy them! In 1995, developed by World Tree Games and published by Epic Games (Yes, the makers of the Unreal Engine), Tyrian 2000 was a vertical shooter where you took off in your spaceship, fought an evil corporation, and blasted your way through planets of bullet-hell. Written by Jonathan Lee, September 8, 2016, at 12:30 p.m.
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