The fact that in the game you can only release two shots successively seems to be intended so the course of the game is not slowed down any further by additional objects. The highest of highs in terms of landscaping are the mountains, that rise equally decoratively and unreachably at the horizon. As in that game, the game area is also divided into two parts here: ground and sky that change the colour in different sections.
The nearest equivalent for the graphics is "Mercenary" by Novagen. To save the game's honour one needs to say that the objects neither flicker as badly as in Elite nor are they als blockily defined as in e.g. corresponds to the one of other vector graphics games on the C64. The speed of the shown objects in the 3D grid look and with this the speed of the game is - as expected - low and approx. Under the protection of the Inviso camouflage the Raven attacks the fuel station on Rigel. "Arctic Fox" is seen as a "follower in spirit" on the C64, where there is a higher emphasis on strategic elements and the course of the game is significantly more complex. Further followers were "Stellar 7: Draxon's Revenge" for the 3DO console and "Stellar Fire" for the SEGA CD System. In 1990, a remake of Stellar 7 was published for Amiga, Macintosh and DOS-PCs, which also contained extra weapons and was continued in 1991 with "Nova 9: The Return of Gir Draxon". In contrast to Battlezone has Stellar 7 a bigger range of enemies and further game elements, as the already mentioned stealth system and the zoom function of the own gun.
After being asked by a friend if he could also write such a game, Slye started - after some hesitation - to programme a collection of vector graphic routines that he called Three Space and with which he finally created Stellar 7 within six months. If a certain number of enemies has been shot, a gate appears that transports the player to the next of altogether seven sections of the game at the end waits the final duel with the tank of the super villain Gir Draxon.ĭamon Slye, the programmer of Stellar 7, took as an example Atari's arcade machine "Battlezone". Furthermore, the "Raven" - so is the name of the tank - has a radar screen, a telescope to zoom in the opponents and a stealth system, which, however, has only a limited number of uses. Hostile objects need to be shot and if possible their shots need to be avoided, because the own shield has only limited energy.
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The player steers a futuristic tank from whose cockpit he looks at a battlefield full of obstacles and opposing vehicles that are desgined with vector graphics. Stellar 7 is a shooter with vector graphics from the first person perspective by Dynamix, that was published at first for the Apple II in 1982 and converted to the C64 in the following year. With "such" people you just cannot negotiate. Of course he also tried again eight years later to surrend the earth. The super villain of the game, Gir Draxon, got given a face only in the 1990 remake for the Amiga. What? How you are supposed to get back? Haha.you are a weird one.Good luck! Having arrived on Arcturus, see to it that you get hold of Draxon in his flagship, rather dead than alive. Your mission is now the following: we put you on Titan, there you need to find the warplink to the next of altogether seven stations into the direction of Arcturus. It should originally be called "Nighthawk", but the audio feedback machinery of the stealth system has always croaked so funnily, that we simply renamed it. But we still have one trump: our cool super tank XCV Agl-2 Typ C "Raven" with high-power gun, anti-gravity power unit and a stealth system that is so good, that we had problems finding the thing after the last test drive in the exercise area.
No we stand there with eggs on our faces, because until our fleet has turned around, we are completely open to the Arcturan attacks. So we have sent out our whole glorious fleet to avoid this, only to discover (of course too late), that the ratfink has secretly parked an advance party by warplink on the Saturn moon Titan.
This full-time lunatic and spiked helmet fetishist has mobilised his armada to subjugate our nice earth, but this is where we draw the line! Peace, Commander.wait, this is not correct, we are AT WAR! Who started it? Of course the others, which is the Arcturans from the system Arcturus in the constellation grumbler, led by their deranged despot Gir Draxon.
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