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Lethal Xcess

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The great magician Sagyr has won over his nemesis, the wicked witch Xandrilia, and regained the human shape of his former self. But Xandrilia's curse sends him 3,000 years in the future. There he finds out that the witch's posterity, known as the Xandrilians, plan to rule the universe with an army of
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has been the first commercial project of Heinz Rudolf and Claus Frein, although they had some offers before; due to the disappointing sales, both quit the gaming industry and became IT consultants. While it is a rather standard shooter on the Amiga platform, the game is one of the technically most
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monsters and machines. Determined to stop the forces of darkness, Sagyr pilots a small combat spacecraft on a desperate mission to destroy the planet where the Xandrilians live.
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where its original story was about Sagyr having been again turned into a gryphon and fighting a restored Xandrilia in fantasy setting, to be titled
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impressive titles for the Atari ST. Besides many technically impressive features, such as digital sound, sync-scrolling,
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was originally it was planned to be an independent release, but in the end it became the sequel to
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The Amiga version of the game was well received, including the review scores of 84% from
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version was also under development by a different team.
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Index


Developer(s)
Publisher(s)
Producer(s)
Designer(s)
Programmer(s)
Artist(s)
Writer(s)
Composer(s)
Jochen Hippel
Platform(s)
Amiga
Atari ST
1991
Genre(s)
Shoot 'em up
shoot 'em up
demo crew
1991
Atari ST
Amiga
Wings of Death

adding to it
Wings of Death
overscan
dual format
Commodore 64
Amiga Action
Amiga Computing

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