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I'm Gaming Jay: Youtube gamer, let's player, fan of retro games, and determined optimist... Normally I'm working my way through the book 1001 VIDEO GAMES YOU MUST PLAY BEFORE YOU DIE in my Let's Play 1001 Games series. This is a great book with a ton of classic retro games but it doesn't have everything and it's even missing some of my favorite video games. Hence, in Saturday Afternoon Gaming, screw it, I'm just going to play whatever I want!
In this series I will be playing some of the best retro games that don't appear in the 1001 VIDEO GAMES YOU MUST PLAY BEFORE YOU DIE book. So pull up a chair, slap on your headphones, and join me as babble aimlessly through some of my most favourite classic games! And hey, if you have ideas or suggestions feel free to leave them in the comments below. I'm always looking for more games to try! Today we play...
Radix: Beyond the Void
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radix:_Beyond_the_Void
Radix: Beyond the Void is a 2.5D first-person shooter with behind-person front view, developed by Canadian studio Neural Storm Entertainment and published by Epic MegaGames for DOS in 1995.
In the 22nd century, humanity has achieved world peace. The United Earth Space Alliance (UESA) was able to fully concentrate on space exploration. In the year 2147, the first colony ship was launched towards the asteroid Theta-2. However, the second vessel, carrying the colonists, encountered a terrifying disturbance in space. Alien ships emerged from what later became known as "The Void", and attacked the colony ship; the subsequent fate of ten thousand people on board was unknown. Humans constructed the inter-dimensional starfighter Radix, and sent it through The Void, in a desperate attempt to face the alien threat.
In the mid-1990s, the popularity of Doom led to many shareware "Doom clones", with Radix being one of the few first person shooters which takes place in a zero gravity environment and where the player controls a ship rather than a human. In some sense, Radix is superficially similar to Descent. However while Descent had full 3D maps with six degrees of motion, Radix uses the earlier 2.5D map designs of Doom clones. These are characterized by flat levels with no rooms over rooms, albeit with slopes of various degrees. Despite being a spacecraft, freedom of motion is limited - it is impossible to turn fully vertically upwards or downwards, nor fly upside down.[2]
Versions 1.0 and 1.1 use game controls whereby the player's ship constantly flies forwards in whatever direction is currently faced using the mouse. With this control system, the player can brake to a minimum speed, or use afterburners to fly faster at the expense of using energy that recharges over time. It is not possible to stop or fly backwards.
In the version 2.0 "REMIX" patch, the game controls are significantly reworked to behave more like those found in Descent - the player's vehicle will hover in place until any of the separate forward, backward, or strafe controls are used. Afterburners still require energy to use, but can boost movement speed in any direction much like the "run" key in Doom.