Tyrian 2000

This game was already free a while back...but who cares? I think it's a great addition to GOG, especially since it's the best 2D shooters from back in the days of DOS. It even supported 2 player co-op on the same computer! Pure win. GOG, you are awesome!!!!

I feared that it would just be nostalgia that made me regard Tyrian as of of the great vertical shooters of my youth. I was so happy to be wrong. It's still all there, all the weapons, all the holocubes, all the fun. MUCHAS GRACIAS GOG!

Rewind 15 years, to a 11 year old me, playing this for hours every day. Randomly found it here on GoG, google revealed it has been freeware for some years, but that soundtrack is just Epic! 5 Stars - Nostalgic value, and then some. Also, play it now, and you will get Christmas Mode! (Or mess with your pc clock, works too.)

Tyrian is hands-down, one of the greatest arcade shooters to date. It also has a dual function as a mock bullet hell on Super Tyrian mode Oh cool trick for getting arcade ships in the main story. ---- Type in the code at the tittle screen as you normally would, then back out when the chapter menu comes up, finally, start a new game and select the story mode, chapter, difficulty, you should start with the ship. It won't appear in the ship purchasing menu till after you beat a level. Also, modern gamers, eat your hear out! Tyrian was the FIRST game with motion-blur. It is, however, but a unexpected side-effect of having a blue tinted background as shown on some levels, that and the high-speed Savara levels. It looks, however, like a simple video-artifact, but the fact that some even like this would show up on a old game is phenomenal. I could be wrong, and the developers actually put that in there.

One of the best games in existence. Excellent music, gameplay and awesome graphics for it's time. This game is from the time where games had to be actually FUN to be sold.