Gameplay consists of completing successive missions and overall cockpit performance affects gameplay: going above and beyond the call of duty results in medals, promotions in rank are awarded at regular intervals, and success or failure on certain critical missions decides the player's plot progress, "winning" or "losing". The player takes the role of a nameless pilot aboard the TCS Tiger's Claw, a Bengal-class Strike Carrier. The player gets to name the pilot and choose his call sign. The pilot (known in-production to Origin personnel as "Bluehair", after his most notable feature) quickly rises through the ranks of the flight wing and (presuming the player performs ideally in the cockpit) eventually leads a strike on the Kilrathi High Command starbase in the Venice system. On the other hand, if the player does not perform optimally, missions become increasingly defensive in nature, and eventually the Claw is forced to retreat.
ShooterSimulatorActionScience fictionspace simulationspace combatmilitaryspaceshipwarmission briefingfull motion videoescort missiondynamic soundtrackadapted to - moviepreviously on - origin accessAmiga CD32, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, DOS, FM Towns
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Earnest, grave, plot-driven and epic.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
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About the game
- Platforms
- Amiga CD32, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, DOS, FM Towns, Amiga, Sega CD, Super Famicom
- Developer
- Origin Systems
- Publisher
- GameTap Entertainment, Fujitsu Interactive, Sega Entertainment, Mindscape, Inc., Origin Systems, ASCII Corporation, Mindscape, Ocean Software
- Released
- September 26, 1990
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- First person
- Engine
- Origin FX
- Time to beat
- 20 h completionist
IGDB rating 8.1/10 from 41 ratings.
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