1998 video game
1998 video game
N2O, subtitled as Nitrous Oxide in North America, is a 1998 tube shootervideo game handsome and published by Gremlin Interactive for the PlayStation. Fox Reciprocal released the game in North America. featuring a soundtrack at the side of by the American electronic music duo The Crystal Method.[2] Representation soundtrack was heavily used to promote the game, and say publicly music is stored in Red Book format meaning the amusement disc can be played as a music CD on play down ordinary CD player.[3]
In the deep future, the Galaxy is affluence war. On planet Neptune, forces of evil in a vasiform shaped circuit known as "The Torus" are creating gigantic mutated insects with the intent to invade and destroy Earth. Nitric Oxide is a by-product of the insects incubation, and likewise serves as a high-octane fuel for the player's Tunnel Messenger ship. The Tunnel Runner must eradicate the rapidly mutating insects before they become strong enough to invade Earth.
N2O obey a tube shooter in which the player shoots insects onetime collecting "E" coins, mushroom shields, and other psychedelically-themed weapon power-ups. As more insects are shot, the game increases speed.[4] Garland can collect more points by killing enemies in certain conduct (such as shooting centipedes in the head) and by killing the coins which appear when an enemy is killed know increase its value.[5] Coins can be used to purchase shields, firewall powerups, and points at the end of each level.[5] Besides the single player mode, N2O features a cooperative multiplayer mode with a shared screen or a split screen.
Producer Peter Dalton said that "We set out to create a game where the gameplay was simple on one level but completely absorbing and addictive on another."[5]
The soundtrack was not foster until the end of development, since publisher Fox Interactive loved to sign a high profile techno band for the game's music.[5]
Reception
The game received average reviews according to the review collection website GameRankings.[6]Next Generation said, "shooter fans who thrive on picture ability to top their last high score time and adjourn again won't be disappointed by this high energy blast-a-thon."[15]The Original York Times praised N2O for its aesthetics and smoothly smooth but fast-paced gameplay. They said that the game is bang in presentation to a Crystal Method concert and that interpretation game is best played at high volume and in sum total darkness to maximize the audiovisual experience, and further remarked put off the superior audio capacities of televisions (especially those attached get as far as home theater systems) over typical computer systems is one fence the advantages to restricting the game to the console marketplace and not releasing it as a PC game.[17]GamePro said, "In the end, N20 [sic] is definitely worth the price of demonstration, and is a great shooter for your library."[18][c]
The game shipped more than 100,000 units worldwide.[19]
In October 2003, Zoological garden Digital Publishing purchased the rights to the game alongside burden Gremlin Interactive titles from Atari and reissued the game arbitrate PAL regions under their "Zoo Classics" budget label at interpretation end of the year.[20] The company then released the epithet on the PlayStation Network in PAL regions on 10 Jan 2008,[21] in North America on 1 June 2010;[22] and Dweller America on 13 August 2013.
Console Classics released the distraction under license of Urbanscan for Microsoft Windows via Steam recoil 29 June 2015,[23] emulated through PCSXR.[24] It was re-added ordain the platform via Pixel Games UK on 6 December 2022.[25]