Genre: Arcade/ActionDeveloper: EclipseYear: 1999
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Probably the best and one of the most popular top-down vertical shoot'em'ups for the PC ever, Tyrian broke grounds in 1995 with its solid gameplay, challenge and storyline, along with smooth colorful graphics and nice music and sound effects. Tyrian 2000 was then released as an expanded and revised version of the original game, with a whole new episode, even better graphics and a few other new features.
For those who don't know the original game, unlike other shoot'em'ups, Tyrian actually had a plot, and lots of twists along the way. At first you're just another talented space pilot with little missions of exploration... but level after level you go deeper into a world of treachery and deceiving, and you alone will try to unbalance the odds against the future of the galaxy. In each stage you can find data cubes that bring hints about your next steps, the hazards that await you and other valuable information, keeping the storyline alive all the way through. Tyrian 2000 has the same premise.
As stated above, both Tyrian and Tyrian 2000 were technically magnificent. Graphics, sounds, gameplay, challenge, everything fits and was incredibly well executed. You'll only get the real idea by playing them.
One of their unique features (in comparison to other games of the same category) is to be relatively non-linear, since you can pick different paths along the way, with some differences in terms of challenge and skills involved.
As a last note, I might add that Tyrian even today retains its fun factor in a way most games cannot. The only kind of gamer that wouldn't like it would be one that absolutely hates action games, but even these should give it a try.
