Horizontal shoot 'em up for the PC Engine. The player, as cyber-diver Syd, must fly his hoverbike through the future city of Kabukicho to rescue his partner Deva from the corrupt police. Download is a horizontal shoot 'em up set in a dystopian cyberpunk future in which the main character, Syd, is haunted by memories of his friend Ohala falling to a cybernetic menace. Meanwhile, he receives a call from his contact/partner Deva and must rush to her rescue when she is abducted by the Kabukicho police force. The game's story is depicted in a series of animated vignettes before each stage, similar to Ninja Gaiden. Beginning with the mean streets of Kabukicho, Syd will eventually jack into the internet and fights in a similar manner through cyberspace. The year is 2099. “The Company” hires people to connect their brains to computers to investigate accidents in their corporation’s highly-developed computer network. Sid’s lover was one of them. Lured by a mysterious man, Sid came to a bar in New Kabukicho to learn the truth of his lover's death. But soon, the inside of the bar becomes a sea of blood, and Sid is attacked by a sniper. It appeared that the passing of his lover was part of a larger conspiracy. As his battle rages on, he'll expose surprising facts - including the identity of this conspiracy's mastermind .
ShooterScience fictionanimecyberpunkshoot 'em upTurboGrafx-16/PC Engine
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Character
Grave, earnest, unpretentious and plot-driven.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemplativerelentless
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About the game
- Platforms
- TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine
- Developer
- AlfaSystem Co., Ltd.
- Publisher
- NEC
- Released
- June 22, 1990
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- Side view
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