Panzer Dragoon Orta (EU,JP,US) (Rail Shooter) (ISO) (Xbox)

2002 · shooter · Xbox · The Data Archivist V0.01

MANUAL (US) : https://archive.org/details/xboxmanual_Panzer_Dragoon_Orta/mode/2up VIDEO LONGPLAY : https://archive.org/details/panzer-dragoon-orta-xbox-pal-gameplay-full-game-longplay Source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzer_Dragoon_Orta Panzer Dragoon Orta [a] is a rail shooter game for the Xbox , developed by Smilebit and published by Sega . The fourth Panzer Dragoon game, it was released in Japan in 2002 and in North America and Europe in 2003. The story follows a girl, Orta, who is freed by a dragon and embarks on a quest to prevent the abuse of ancient technology. The gameplay features the player moving an aiming reticle and shooting enemies while the dragon flies through 3D environments on a predetermined track. Production of Orta began in 2001. The previous Panzer Dragoon developer, Team Andromeda , had disbanded after the release of Panzer Dragoon Saga (1998). Around a dozen staff returned to work on Orta, including the artists Takashi Iwade and Kentaro Yoshida, the composer Saori Kobayashi and the battle designer Akihiko Mukaiyama, who directed Orta. While the greater power of the Xbox allowed for more freedom in gameplay and graphical design, the production was troubled by a lack of art design direction and problems with the team's graphical and gameplay ambitions. Panzer Dragoon Orta received positive reviews, with praise for its gameplay and art design. Several publications have named it one of the best Xbox games, and it is remembered favorably for its gameplay and technical achievements. Panzer Dragoon staff have voiced mixed feelings regarding Orta for its continuation of the story after Saga . Orta was the final Panzer Dragoon game until the 2020 remake of the original Panzer Dragoon . Gameplay Orta and her dragon in combat, targeting a swarm of enemies Panzer Dragoon Orta is a single-player rail shooter which spans ten levels of varying lengths and difficulty, covering a variety of environments and each housing a boss . [1] [2] Gameplay consists of the player controlling the protagonist Orta and her dragon, navigating levels through an aiming reticle that can be moved over the whole screen; while the player's path is predetermined, alternate routes can be opened based on in-game actions. [1] [3] The story is communicated though a combination of CGI and real-time cutscenes and dialogue during gameplay, with in-game speech using the fictional language of Panzer Dragoon with subtitles. [3] [4] The player has a 360-degree field of view and can look ahead, left, right, and behind the dragon. Enemies come from all directions, varying in size and health, and appear on an on-screen radar that monitors the dragon's surroundings. The player can fly around some enemies in 90-degree increments, allowing them to avoid enemy fire and target specific areas. [3] [5] The two forms of attack are Orta's blaster, which uses a free aim mode for continuous fire, and the dragon's lock-on attack, which fires at a limited number of targets at once. There is no ammunition limit, and both free-aiming and lock-on attacks can be used simultaneously. [5] [6] The "Berserk" attack, powered by a gauge that fills up when enemies are shot down, deals high damage to surrounding enemies while making the dragon invulnerable for its duration. Alongside standard flight, the dragon has a "Glide" function: limited by an automatically recharging gauge, the dragon can accelerate and decelerate around enemies, with acceleration dealing damage if it collides with an enemy. [5] Another element of combat is the dragon's ability to morph between three forms. These are Base Wing, the standard attack type which balances between offensive and defensive abilities; Heavy Wing, which is limited to the lock-on attack but has high defense; and Glide Wing, which has low defense and no lock-on but features an increased free aim attack. [5] [7] Fully destroying waves of enemies grants a resource called "Gene Base" that upgrades the current dragon form's attributes, such as health and attack power. [5] [6] At the end of each level, the player is scored on kill count, damage received, and the time taken to clear the stage boss. If the player is defeated, they receive a game over and must restart from the beginning of a level or the beginning of the boss stage. [8] Completing the main campaign unlocks an extras menu called "Pandora's Box", a feature which returns from Panzer Dragoon II Zwei . Content is unlocked by clearing various conditions, such as clearing the campaign on a certain difficulty or with a high kill ratio. The content includes a detailed encyclopedia of the game world, a bestiary of defeated enemies, an archive of concept art , story cutscenes for Orta , selected CGI sequences from earlier Panzer Dragoon games, and a port of the original Panzer Dragoon . The most prominent features are additional chapters focusing on different characters, playing out as short gameplay clips with some using visual novel -style story segments. [2] [