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X2 is a punch in the face from the masters of playability, Team 17. X2 is the finest tuned piece of arcade gaming that has appeared on any platform for years!

X2 takes solid, hard shoot-em-up theory and dips it into a big bowl of next gen arcade effects and wraps the package in music that will assault your brain.

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  • 15bit 32000 colour, 3+ parallax layer scroll.
  • Continuos backgrounds - streamloaded from CD.
  • Each enemy has its own 256 colour palette.
  • Player logic 50 Hz, enemy logic 25 Hz.
  • Simultaneous 2-player mode.
  • 11 different levels including a stunning 3D-CGI level..
  • Sprites are scaled, rotated, depth shaded and use transparency for maximum visual effect.
  • Texture mapped polygon graphics used for visual effects.
  • Enemies are raytraced AND hand painted.
  • Bossmonsters take up over 700k of animation.
  • Taxes players reactive shooting skills to the hilt.

Competition Time!!!

Reviews

Phil Harrison, Director of communications Sony Computer Entertainment.
" At last a game that really does showcase the hardware..."

PlayStation Pro
"...hammers everything that has come before in the way of the old shoot-em-up genre..."

Playmag 94%
" A shoot'em up which is a must for the PlayStation. Adjectives aren't able any longer to describe these kickin [excellent, superb] X2 graphics."

Consoles+ 94%
" Here is the only true shoot'em up for the PlayStation which takes the others under ie 20,000 leagues under the sea. Wickedly good. "

" X2 will become the definitive shoot-em-up on both the Playstation and Saturn."

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