The Team17 Softography Says...
"Your mission in brief is simple, annihilate the enemy forces and pursue the alien stronghold!
Featuring an incredible 32,000 colours, devastating visuals and a powerful techno soundtrack resounding across ten massive levels."
Dream17 says...
The original Project X did wonders to the 2D side-scrolling genre, and it's sequel - X2 - tries it's best to compete. Just as fiendishly impossibly difficult as it's predecessor, however it lacked the Progressive Power-Up system that made the original such frantic. In it's place "randomised" power-ups are left by destroyed waves. X2 manages to get one up on the first in two respects, however. Whereas the 2 Player mode of the original was turn-based, two players can now play side-by-side in the sequel. Additionally, gameplay shifts between Horizontal scroll and Vertical scroll mid-level. I can't think of any other way to describe this other than "uber-nifty".
In my humble, pointless opinion, X2 comes close to bringing back some of the frantic shoot 'em up gameplay that made the original the award-winning experience it was. However it can't replace the original. This is almost like comparing MarioKart 64 to the original Super Mario Kart - it's just not the Done Thing. Roll on X3!
I'm a massive fan of Project X on the Amiga so when I heard about this I actually went and bought it for my friend's Playstation just so I could play it round his house.
Not too difficult until you get to level 4 and then the game curved a bit too steep. Still you had passwords
Not as god as the original but still a good Arcade game none the less.
Would love to get an image or rom of this game as the original CD got worn to nothing
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