Game:

Xevious (1982)

Category:

Review

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INTRODUCTION (From the manual):
Many eons ago, an advanced technologically-orientated civilisation was forced to evacuate Earth prior to the Ice Age. Now, these Xevious people are returning to reclaim their heritage through conquest. From the controls of your Solvalou super spacecraft, you must defend Earth from takeover by the Xevious invaders! Flying a search and destroy mission, you will cruise over the scrolling landscape, bombing Xevious ground entrenchments and zapping the air targets that come into range. Easy. But now look out for the flying mirrors - impossible to destroy; a collision will spell certain death! In the event of your surviving wave after wave of enemy onslaughts you will encounter the controlling force of the Xevious offensive; the Andor Genesis Mother Ship! This is your goal. A direct hit to her central reactor will disable her, but do not be lulled into a false sense of security. Xevious forces will soon re-appear to renew their attacks with increased determination!

REVIEW:
Flying in your your Solvalou super spacecraft you basically have to shoot everything that moves, the invading Xevious people must be defeated!

This is a monochrome vertical shooter, but it has very good use of grey scaling, and the scrolling speed is high and smooth – it scrolls twice as fast as the C64 version, and everything is made so there is no problem in seeing the enemy bullets and enemies.
The gameplay and controls are good, so if you can live with the monochrome graphics, you should check this one out!

This is a special Kempston mouse version and it plays excellent. There is no obstacles to fly into, so you can make good use of the extra speed, when flying around the whole screen.

There is no ending for this game, you keep playing forever.

The game was published by US Gold Ltd in 1987.

Rating:
Original version: 82%
Unofficial Kempston Mouse version: 87%

If you do not have a Kempston Mouse for your Spectrum you can play the game in an emulator that supports Kempston Mouse and play it with your PC mouse.

Original version: http://www.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games/x/Xevious.tap.zip
Unofficial Kempston Mouse version: https://velesoft.speccy.cz/kmouse/kmvelesoft/xevious-km.tap.zip