Tyrian 2000

Tyrian 2000 is an absolute masterpiece of a game. A must own game, so just buy it already! Great music, great visuals, great weapons, great ships, great length, endless secrets. Everything about this game is just absolutely fantastic.

When I got this game, I wasn't quite sure what to expect. But this is a great space shooter with fast action packed gameplay that certainly feels quite retro (to me - and because it is). If you are reading this, you may as well try it out, it won't cost you a penny, and is only 20 Mb so even with my appalling internet it will download in a few minutes. Just give it a go and discover an amazing game you never knew about...

Setup, needs tweaking. If you use or wish to use a gamepad/joystick, you'll have to do the following: [joystick] timed=false joysticktype=auto This goes anywhere in the dosboxT2K.conf file (I suggest using Notepad++), and also, change memsize to 32 in the same file. What the joystick configs do is keep the controls from going ballistic in menus and in game. After all that, it's smooth, melodically sound sailing from there. Alongside games like Raptor, Nebula Fighter, Demonstar, and others, Tyrian is one of the greats, and the music to boot is fantastic. Sure, like all games, it has its' faults, but not enough of them to make the game undesirable, and definitely rewarding for perserverance. It's not necessarily a game designed for the everyday casual gamer, but then again, the majority of these games made many years back rarely ever had the casual gamer in mind because well, the casual gamer didn't really exist. You were either a gamer, or a watcher. Tyrian, the Level: Beautiful, tearjerker music. Admit it! It brings tears to your eyes too. Okay, maybe not, but still! It is an amazing melody, one of many in the soundtrack alone. Ship Editor: How can you punish this. Basically this allows one to create their own custom ship graphics and ship stats with their unlocked abilities and such. Can start a new game with great levels of power this way, or at the very least, a full set of weaponry for 0 credits. Can also share ship data between rivals (though one cannot bypass the locked abilities with ship data). Best of all, this is completely cost free, and to boot, it comes with the OST as a free DLC. Hot damn.

Thanks GOG for giving us away this game and bring our nostalgia back. I had been looking for this game for many years, as I was too little when I first played it I couldn't recall its name. Now I can remember beautiful moments of my childhood. This is the typical 2D spaceships shooter game, it has everything you would like to try in a game: Different scenarios, difficult bosses, tough enemy ships, upgradable weapons and spaceships, and lots of fun! I fully recommend this game!

I'm not a huge fan of shoot-em-ups, but I enjoyed Tyrian 2000. It helps that it's free, of course, but there's still a time investment and I enjoyed that. I think the big appeal is the huge selection of ship and weapon load-outs, offering plenty of different playstyles and options to explore. There are also plenty of hidden secrets to find (or look up online), as well as great art design, solid music and an okay story. There are things I could quibble over, such as the dodgy method of story telling or the tendency towards too much silliness, but in a free game these can be easily overlooked. Recommended.