The game was notable for being a rail shooter that allowed a full 360-degree camera rotation to fight enemies in all directions.The Dark Dragon mortally wounds the blue dragon's rider, who urges Kyle to mount his creature and stop the Dark Dragon from reaching the Tower and harnessing its destructive power. Released for the Sega Saturn (and PC) in 1995, players take control of Keil/Kyle, a mutant hunter whose excursion into the desert is interrupted when he witnesses a battle between two dragons, the most powerful genetically engineered monsters spoken of in legend.The games which comprise this series include:

In the midst of this, The Empire ruthlessly seeks to harness the power of the Lost Technology from the Ancients to unite all humanity and its colonies but are prevented by general fear and confusion, as every so often, a single dragon and its Rider appears from almost nowhere to combat them. Mankind is forced to attempt to live on a halfway barren scavenger, Death World, filled with Everything Trying to Kill You. The Ancients' cryogenics failed, leaving them all dead. Flash forward centuries later, and everything has gone to pot: the Towers never completed the terraforming, instead spewing out hostile monsters constantly.

The people who actually knew how to work the things, the ' Ancients', put themselves to sleep for a couple thousand years to wait for the terraforming to complete itself and left everyone else to fend for themselves. The series is famous for its beautiful soundtrack, After the End plotline and surreal Science Fiction atmosphere, owing a lot to Dune, French artist Mœbius (who drew the box art for the first game in Japan and is credited with design inspiration, particularly from his 1975 comic, Arzach), and Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (more of the manga than the anime).įar in the distant future, mankind colonized another unspecified planet ( Wild Mass Guessing makes it likely it's Mars), thanks to harnessing the power of terraforming run by artificial humans called 'Drones', created from giant Towers that spit out streams of artificial creatures. The first, second, and fourth games are dragon-riding rail shooters, while the third is a unique Eastern RPG. Panzer Dragoon is a tetralogy of games developed by Sega's Team Andromeda for the Sega Saturn and by Smilebit for the Xbox.

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