
In the far future, armadas from surrounding systems have suddenly waged war on Earth. You are a pilot from the Ares Squadron, flying the fastest, most dangerous crafts ever made. You're outgunned, outmanned, and strapped into a flying coffin.
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An excellent classic - I remember many hours spent playing this as a much younger man after finding the demo on the Duke3D CDROM. But, back then I also didn't have a joystick. Or when I did, there were always issues with game ports and IRQs and extended memory and whatnot typical of DOS gaming back in the day. Basically, I've been waiting ~25 years to play it maxed out and properly with a joystick. Steam release has some issues though - instead of using the actual Doxbox joystick emulation, they just bound axes to keyboard keys meaning that you effectively had a digital joystick instead of an analog one. Looks like they couldn't figure out how to properly change a single variable in the conf regarding joysticks and gave up. Once you fix that and get rid of their ridiculous binds, it plays like it should and it's an absolute blast from the past. Highly recommended if you're willing to spend a few minutes fixing the configuration to enjoy it at it's best. Kickin' soundtrack too. One of the absolute best of the era.
Before Descent and probably one of the first open work concepts I ever played, Terminal Velocity if you PC at the time could run it, offer a very unique style of game play that was unmatched at the time. A must for any Apogee fans out there.
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Fun, simple classic of a space shooter game. There isn't much variation of what you have to do in every mission, so expect to shoot enemies all the time like in Doom. I do wish Microsoft would publish its spiritual sequels, Fury³ and Hellbender.
[h1]Terminal Velocity[/h1] Um clássico simples, nostálgico e divertido. Obviamente não possui gráficos atualizados, roda pela DOSbox, mas roda tranquilamente funciona bem no teclado, não cheguei a testar com o controle mas com o teclado consegui jogar bem. É um dos poucos jogos que envelheceram bem, em alguns momentos pode ser que seja um pouco difícil de encontrar o objetivo,m as na época os jogos eram assim e esse é certamente bem divertido. [b]Nota: [u]7/10[/u]
This is the shareware version, AKA THE DEMO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[h1]Terminal Velocity: Legacy [/h1] [u][i]Childhood Nostalgia[/i][/u] I grew up in the 90's PC gaming era and this is one of those gems. Great music, great action and very nostalgic. I have only just noticed that they have released a semi remastered version called Terminal Velocity Boosted. So I'm definitely about to install that and play through properly now that it runs full screen natively and has Steam Achievements. Ymir was such a banger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H52f4cQ9aS0&ab_channel=Bysig [i][u][b]Trail-Dave[/b][/u][/i] [u][i]Grooving to Ymir[/i][/u]
Did it really stand the test of time? No. Does it run fine on Windows 10, with a high-end rig? Yep. (Using the keyboard only) Does it bring back memories/create nostalgia? Oh yeah! Will I play it? Sure, till the end, just the one time. Recommended for the nostalgia factor, just like all of these old DOS games.
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Control issues with steam deck. Unplayable.
Terminal Velocity is a very nostalgic and forgotten game from the 90s. It was developed by Terminal Reality and published by 3D realms. It's a sci-fi space sim that controls more like Descent. It's a very simple game where you mostly just shoot at everything that moves. Visually it's very familiar to other games from around the same time like Mechwarrior 2. It hasn't aged that well visually in a lot of ways though, like the world is flat shaded and generally crudely textured. It also has a draw distance that ends in a few meters. Strangely Terminal Velocity has aged somewhat well in terms of gameplay mostly because it can be played with the mouse. Because it controls more like Descent you can shift your course immediately at any point and don't have to worry about lift. You essentially control like a first person shooter with thrust. At the same time there's really no story and the overly simplistic gameplay may be a turnoff if you're not nostalgic for it. While I don't hold Terminal Velocity in as high regard as its successor Fury 3, it's still a fairly solid game, especially for its time.
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