Tempest 2000 Overview
Tempest 2000 Free Download for PC is a 1994remake byJeff Minterof the Dave Theurer1981arcade game,Tempest. Originally an exclusive to the Atari Jaguar, the game has since been released on PC, Macintosh, PlayStation, and the Saturn. The game received critical praise for its 3D graphics, soundtrack, and gameplay.
Gameplay
Tempest 2000 modifies the gameplay of the original Tempest by adding bonus levels, power-ups, more sophisticated enemy types, and wildly varying web (level) designs. Tempest 2000 Download free Full Version.
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The game contains a total of 100 webs, with new frame colors and variations every 16 levels. In all versions, the player's progress is saved every couple of levels, and players are allowed to resume by using «keys» to return to the last stage the game saved at.
Power-ups appear as small floating polygons that appear after shooting a number of enemies. Catching the polygon will activate one of a number of progressively more useful capabilities:
Particle Laser enhances the ship's firepower and allows it to destroy spikes much more quickly.
Between certain power-ups, the player can gain bonuses of 2000 points.
Allows the player to jump off of the web, useful for avoiding enemies that travel along the edge, and for avoiding the attack of Pulsars. Tempest 2000 Game free Download Full Version.
An autonomous polygonal ship appears floating above the web, and shoots at enemies.
Collecting three tokens gives access to a bonus stage following the current web.
Collecting this power-up will destroy all enemies on the web and warp the player to the next stage. However, spikes are not destroyed, and it is still possible to lose a life by hitting one as the player warps down the web.
If a power-up is caught while warping off of a completed web, the increasingly high-pitched sound of a woman saying «Yes! Yes! Yes!» is played, and the first power-up received in the next stage will be the A.I. Droid.
If the player successfully completes all 100 levels, a special «Beastly mode» is unlocked. This is a harder difficulty setting where the enemies move faster and fire more often.
Development
At a gaming convention, Atari held a conference with prospective developers for the Atari Jaguar at which they listed off arcade games that they were considering having converted to the Jaguar, asking the developers to raise their hands at ones they wanted to work on. Jeff Minter volunteered to do Tempest as it was one of his favorite games. At the launch party for the Jaguar in New York, the creator of the Atari Jaguar took Minter aside and told him that he felt Tempest 2000 was a poor demonstration of the Jaguar's capabilities. Though discouraged, Minter continued to work on the game until it was finished. Tempest 2000 game free Download for PC Full Version.
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