In fact she'll usually radio you the moment before (or just after) you enter an enemy laden area.
You never feel that an area is over your head, especially when your ship is constantly creating new equipment, weapons, and shield and energy upgrades. As you can imagine, Zax is easy to get into. Shoot this, hit this switch, avoid the spikes, shoot some more. Zax is more arcade action than anything else. Not helping any of this is the action itself which boils down to shooting enemy generators (so more enemies can't teleport in), hitting switches, grabbing energy signatures left behind by destroyed robots, and saving Zorbos. Everything is crisply rendered - the killer spikes to giant boar to enemy units - but after you've seen the same painted landscapes, villages, lava, and cells, again and again they lose whatever allure they might have had. The graphics themselves are actually good. The flora looks the same, the caves look the same. There are side-trips to dungeon-esque areas but the overall variation was not enough to hold my interest. Zax manages to repeat itself enough times that I often said, "Didn't I do this already?" The majority of the action takes place in either lush surface landscape or underground caves that all manage to look the same. It's a tried and true formula and, frankly, it gets old real fast. The Zorbo look to Zax as a savior of sorts, and he just can't bear to let them down - plus it's the only way he can collect enough ore and crystals to leave the planet. Unfortunately, you land in the middle of a tricky situation - the indigenous species, Zorbos, are being enslaved by the malicious entity known as Om. In addition to the single player missions, multiplayer games are also supported, offering deathmatch, capture the flag, and the release's own "Salvage King" modes of competition.Īfter crash landing on an alien world, Zax (read: you) must collect enough ore and crystals so the ship can repair itself and he can be on his way. Setting down on a seemingly deserted planet rich in valuable ore, the hero soon finds himself embroiled in a conflict of cruel alien captors and race of slaves that now look to him as their savior. The player takes the role of the title character, a loner who grew up in poverty and now seeks his fortune in the desolate and dangerous reaches of deep space. The game's story is designed to support and accentuate, but not distract from the kinetic gameplay. The game is designed to combine the fast, action-oriented elements of first-person shooter with the third-person intimacy of a role-playing adventure. Billing itself as a blend of Quake and Diablo, Zax: Alien Hunter is an isometric-perspective shooter offering 22 related adventures set across hundreds of diverse and challenging game maps in seven different environments.
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