SRD: Super Real Darwin is a 1987 vertical scrolling shooter arcade game developed and published by Data East. It is the sequel to Data East's 1986 arcade game, Darwin 4078. The player takes control of a small fighter ship capable of mutating into different shapes. The ship's appearance will change with upgraded weapons as the player obtain more power-ups. The story starts on the planet Lakya where the technologically advanced inhabitants of the planet unwittingly unleash the planet's life force known as Evol. As the released Evol drifts from planet Lakya, it is received by the inhabitants of the nearby planet Cokyo; the people of Cokyo initiate the Shlohe project, a plan to use their captured Evol to develop advanced biologic ships and weapons to invade planet Lakya. The inhabitants of Lakya retaliate the Cokyo invasion by using their own evolving fighter ships.
ShooterActionScience fictionshoot 'em upshmupArcade, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis
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Character
Plot-driven, cool, grave and unpretentious.
- character-ledplot-driven
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
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About the game
- Platforms
- Arcade, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis
- Developer
- Data East
- Publisher
- Sega
- Released
- December 31, 1987
- Modes
- Single player, Multiplayer
- Perspective
- Bird view / Isometric
IGDB rating 5.8/10 from 5 ratings.
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Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Curator Co. Other media included when they land close.
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