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Sinistar Unleashed
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dextrovix I hope this gets the GOG treatment, I have the CD version but the ISO way is a PITA along with the lack of game options that I'd hope a launcher wrapper might assist with.
BLKBRDSR71 I miss playing this game. My disc got scratched a few months ago, now I have to use an ISO. Would love to play this game on GOG though.
Dredd I recently found this disc in a 2nd hand store, R25 (€1.54). Can you believe it? I had never heard of the sequel and snapped it up. It's an amazing arcade style space sim! MUST HAVE DIGITAL!
SendImps I need more Sinistar in my life.
ddg4005 I would love to see this game offered on GOG.
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Shadowcat See also www.gog.com/wishlist/games/sinistar_unleashed_1998
Shadowcat There are excellent games (like "Battlezone") which have taken the name of a classic arcade game, but then used it to make something very different.
"Sinistar Unleashed", however, absolutely IS Sinistar in 3D, and it is INCREDIBLE. Magnificent, even. Quite simply, this is the very best 3D remake of a classic arcade game that has EVER been made.
It has a few additions (weapons and power-ups especially), but essentially each level you are mining asteroids for crystals to gain Sinibombs, combat the enemy fighters, destroy their workers to slow their progress on the jumpgate, bomb the gate itself to do the same, and if the gate is completed and the Sinistar is able to enter the level (to the tune of "Beware... I live!") you must then take it out with Sinibombs, and hope that you've delayed it long enough that it won't be too powerful for you to handle.
I think the only really radical change is that every fourth level has you doing something a bit different -- in the first such level, you must defend four colonies against increasingly numerous stages of enemy ships. These levels may have their genesis in the game's origins, as (surprisingly, given the faithfuless to its name) this game started its life as something different.
The game does get hard (as arcade games tend to do), but oh man -- if it's non-stop action you want, look no further! The game also has an evil ability to distract you from the gate construction with some intense combat, until the sudden unexpected and awful utterance of "I live!" lets you know that you screwed up (again).
It's also worth noting at this point that you absolutely NEED to read the manual, or you will probably think the game is impossible.
Graphically "Sinistar Unleashed" looks quite extraordinary for its age. It was released in 1999, and when I first played it in 2006 I couldn't get over how fantastic it looked. Now in 2013, that same period of time later, I STILL think it's a fine-looking game. Of course, a game set mostly in void gives you a lot of scope to make what IS there look really nice, but even so -- they really went to town. Perhaps not so surprising with the development company being set up by Looking Glass and 3Dfx alumni, though -- these were technical wizards who knew the hardware of the day inside out, and had the skills to put that knowledge to full use.
In short, the game is an absolute blast, and I desperately hope that GOG gets their hands on it.
If you want to know more, read Adrenaline Vault review; I think it's bang on the money: web.archive.org/web/20060215230738/https
IAmSinistar I think I'm legally obliged to support this request. Have this game on CD, too.
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