Eons ago, millennia
before prehistoric man trod the
earth, even before the ice age
glaciers swept across Europe
and altered it forever
(Get on
with it. Ed). Anyway, a very
long time ago indeed, the earth
was colonised by the Xevious
people. This advanced
civilisation ruled for centuries
before moving on to better
things. But now they've
returned, and they want their
planet back. Not very chummy,
eh? Not surprisingly this has
not gone down too well with the
earth's ruling forces, so they've
sent you out in your Solvalou
spacecraft to give them a darn
good thrashing (see me in my
study, Simpkins).
Xevious is another scrolling
shoot 'em up, a coin-op
conversion in the traditions of
Uridium,
WAR and
Lightforce.
Enemy forces take the form of
ground-based missile systems
and flying whatchamacallits
which dodge around in a
thoroughly tricky manner.
These Xevious are devious!
Things get more difficult of
course when you approach a
flotilla of floating mirrors, as
these'll reflect your fire back at
you unless you get out of the
way smartish. At the end of the
line you'll face the Andor
Genesis Mother Ship, a huge
steaming mother of a ship that
may take a bit of budging.
With this sort of conversion it
seems to me that programmers
have a very simple choice -
graphic quality or speed. US
Gold has gone for speed. So
while
Xevious may not be as
impressive to look at as, say,
Lightforce, it's much more fun
to. Play.
Uridium managed to
combine the two, with spectacular results.
Xevious is fast, vicious and
enthralling. If you can forgive
graphics that never really rise
above the mundane, you
should get a lot out of it.
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