Star Raiders 2011 Download PC

Star Raiders is a video game for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Microsoft Windows. Developed by Incinerator Studios, it was published in May, 2011 by Atari SA. It is a re-imagining of 1979's Star Raiders which was the killer app for Atari, Inc.'s then-new Atari 8-bit family of home computers. The original was well-received for expanding the space combat simulation genre with higher quality graphics and more complex gameplay. It inspired key games over a decade later such as Wing Commander and Star Wars: X-Wing.

Like the original, Star Raiders is an action, first-person spaceship combat game in which the player travels through a starfield in pursuit of the game's enemy, the "Zylons". The 2011 game adds a new storyline, customizable ships, and multiplayer gameplay with several modes.

Gameplay

Star Raiders features a storyline very similar to that of the 1979 classic. The Zylons, an alien race bent on humanity’s destruction, are moving their forces towards earth, and it is up to player to repel their assault and save the human race. The player’s ship is a small space fighter, but with the capability to transform itself to deal with a variety of situations. The forms include a dogfighting ship, capable of close and quick battles with other Zylon dogfighters, an assault form that is good at destroying larger, more powerful enemy ships, and a turret form, for destroying the largest Zylon ships from the inside.

All of these forms will be needed, as the Zylon’s dramatically outnumber the player, both in numbers and size of their ships. Aside from fighters of similar size, the Zylons have cruisers and frigates to confront the player, as well as their largest ship, the Basestar. Players can defeat the other 3 types of ships with conventional weaponry, but have to travel inside the Basestar and destroy certain key points to finally eliminate it.

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