#TEMPEST VIDEO GAME UPDATE#

The soundtrack is typical video game techno, right down to the sample of Chuck D screaming 'Bring that beat back!' It fits the game well, and adds a little bit to the experience. The game's sound is standard blips, bleeps, and explosions. Enemies come up the channels and attempt to grab or shoot the player, who simply rotates around the outside of the tube, destroying anything that comes up the path. The game casts the player as a two-legged yellow craft that's attached to a tube broken up into several channels. The two new additions aren't much help: Trippy 2000 is Tempest 2000 with weird colors, tracers, and generally blurry items, and Tempest X3 simply improves on Tempest 2000 by adding light sourcing and clearer graphics. Carried over from the Jag version, players will find traditional Tempest, which clones the original vector graphics arcade game Tempest Plus, which adds assistance from a computer-controlled droid and Tempest 2000, which contains weapon power-ups, slightly improved graphics, and a warp zone. Tempest X3 is, at its roots, a clone of Jaguar's Tempest 2000 with a couple of additional modes. Essentially, there just isn't enough game for your green.

#TEMPEST VIDEO GAME UPDATE#

While Tempest may have been a great game in 1981, this update for the 1990s doesn't really add anything worthwhile.

Tempest video game