Join Tim and Brian every Monday, Wednesday and Friday as they play and riff on video games from all eras! Today they're playing Panzer Dragoon Orta on the original Xbox console!
Platform: Xbox
Publisher: Sega
Developer: Smilebit
About Panzer Dragoon Orta
Panzer Dragoon Orta is a rail shooter video game published by Sega for the Xbox. The game was released in Japan in December 2002, the following month in the United States, and three months later in PAL territories. It is the fourth console game in the Panzer Dragoon series, after three such games on the Sega Saturn. Panzer Dragoon Orta was developed by Smilebit, one of Sega's second-party developers (before merging with Sega on July 1, 2004). This makes it one of two Panzer Dragoon games not developed by Team Andromeda (the other being Panzer Dragoon R-Zone), even though Smilebit included many of Team Andromeda's former members.
The game focuses on a young girl, Orta, who has been held as a prisoner her entire life, before being freed by a mysterious dragon. As she rides on the dragon's back through a post-apocalyptic world, she must defend herself from the forces of an oppressive and militaristic Empire, who believe she is the harbinger of their destruction.
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