I’m surprised the story is as fleshed out as it is. You’re going to have to read otherwise you won’t know what’s going on but even if you don’t care for the story, it never gets in the way of the gameplay. He vows to avenge his friend’s death and prepares to fight. Trent leaves Tyrian to avoid being hunted down by MicroSol and heads to the planet Savara, the only planet free of the Interstellar Government’s policies. And they will eliminate anybody who knows of the Gravitium’s existence. Unique to Tyrian is Gravitium, a special mineral which is able to control the force of gravity and MicroSol wants to use it to power their warships. During an assignment on the planet Tyrian, his best friend is shot and before he dies he is able to tell Trent that the attack was carried out by MicroSol, a giant corporation that controls the terraformation of the planet. The story is set in the year 20,031 and you play as a terraforming pilot named Trent Hawkins. There is an actual story in Tyrian and it’s told through text and data cubes found in the levels. For this review, I played the GoG version of Tyrian 2000. There are console builds of OpenTyrian for multiple systems which does make it very attractive. You cannot use the files from Tyrian 2000. OpenTyrian can only be played using the files from version 2.1. Then there’s OpenTyrian which is basically a re-write of the game based on the original source code. However, you can find and download the ROMs of these versions. World Tree Games developed versions for the Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance but they were cancelled. In 1999, Tyrian was re-released as Tyrian 2000 which includes an additional fifth episode and some new ships. Version 2.0 added episode 4 and new game modes and Version 2.1 added in a Christmas mode. Version 1.1 was the first published version consisting of three episodes and a ship editor. It was originally released as shareware consisting of only one episode. Developed by Eclipse Software and published by Epic MegaGames, Tyrian was released for PC in June, 1995. Even though this is an updated review, we’re going to keep the original up for historic value. I’ve wanted to redo this review for a while and I figured now is as good a time as any. We made a mistake during editing and didn’t catch it until it was too late and I remember the audio for several captured clips was out of sync so we didn’t use them. I will never forget Tyrian 2000 because it was the first game we made a video review for.
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