Plus, your ship also has an English accent too, which is kind of a rare thing in old-school computer games.Īll in all “Tyrian 2000” is an amazingly fun game. The voice-acting in these parts of the game is fairly ok (even if the ship’s computer occasionally sounds slightly bored). If you find this hard to believe, just listen to it on Youtube and tell me that you don’t instantly want to play old computer games.Īlthough there isn’t much in the way of voice-acting in this game, your ship’s computer will occasionally say things like “danger” and “unexplained speed increase”. In fact, that music may have been the thing that made me curious about “Tyrian 2000” in the first place. Interestingly, the first time I heard a song from this game’s soundtrack was when I played an absolutely excellent “Doom II” WAD and later found out that some of the amazing music in this WAD was originally from “Tyrian 2000”. In other words, after playing this game for a while, don’t be surprised if you still see spaceships and projectiles whenever you close your eyes.įinally, the game has a really great soundtrack. One thing I will warn you about is that, if you play this game for more than a few minutes, you’ll probably start to experience a mild version of the “ Tetris effect“. Not only that, “Tyrian 2000” seems to introduce a new type of enemy every level or two, which really helps to prevent the gameplay from becoming dull or repetitive. Many of them are just robots, turret guns and spaceships that sometimes shoot projectiles at you, but they come in all shapes and sizes. Like in many great games from the 1990s, there’s also a creative array of enemies on offer here. Yes, you can actually choose which route you want to take in this part of the game. Even so, I was quite surprised at the sheer amount of backstory on offer here: Surprisingly, I haven’t actually played that many of these types of games before ( I can only think of possibly one or two others before this one) but I’ve been having quite a good time with this one, for reasons that I’ll explain later.Īlthough “Tyrian 2000” has a surprisingly detailed backstory ( which is revealed through data cubes that you collect throughout the game), the basic plot of the game is that you’re a fighter pilot of some kind who is up against an evil corporation.īut, like in many action games, you’ll probably be focusing more on the gameplay than the story itself. “Tyrian 2000” is a vertically-scrolling sci-fi shooter game.
That said, let’s take a look at “Tyrian 2000”: Although I’ve completed quite a few levels (and am currently on the second episode of the game at the time of writing), this review will only reflect my experiences of the game so far.
#TYRIAN 2000 STORY FOR FREE#
I got my version of this game from GoG ( since it came with a built-in DOSBox launcher), but it can also be legally downloaded for free from several other sites, like this one.īefore I go any further, I should probably point out that I’ve only had the chance to play this game for a couple of nights before writing this review. Well, it’s been a while since I last reviewed a computer game, so I thought that I’d take a quick look at a freeware game from the 1990s called “ Tyrian 2000“.
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