{"id":94,"date":"2005-01-16T20:41:45","date_gmt":"2005-01-16T20:41:45","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-01-16T20:41:45","modified_gmt":"2005-01-16T20:41:45","slug":"xevious-3dg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2005\/01\/16\/xevious-3dg\/","title":{"rendered":"Xevious 3D\/G+"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of you are thinking, \u201cWhat the hell?\u201d  But yes, there it is; a discussion of Xevious 3D\/G+ is taking over the blog.<\/p>\n<p>In an attempt to clean out my gaming library (see previous post) I am throwing some older games in my library into my play rotation to discern what should stay and what should eBay.  I did not play Xevious 3D\/G+ a ton when it came out (way back in 1996!), but I picked it up right away because I was (still am) a huge Xevious fan.  Of course I have always sucked at Xevious, but that is a different story.  <\/p>\n<p>When I picked up Xevious 3D\/G+ I had Raiden Project in my library.  Actually I still have Raiden Project, which is a very under rated shooter and certainly worth its own blog entry, but I digress.  I liked Raiden Project better than Xevious 3D\/G+, so I never made it more than about half way through the game.  Dust it has collected ever more.<\/p>\n<p>Xevious 3D\/G+ is basically a 3D version of Xevious.  The graphics are very dated by today\u2019s standards, and I expect that the graphics are pretty lame when compared to its contemporary PlayStation titles.  The sound is loopy in a strange Japanese shooter sort of way; catchy, but loopy.  The gameplay is actually decent; plenty of power-ups, interesting enemies, and an assortment of boss ships.  Setting the game on easy is a sure fire way to eat up level after level, but moving to hard is an exercise in frustration for my current (lack there of) skills.<\/p>\n<p>I am not going to do a review as such; instead it is just enough to say that Joshua and I had a good time with the Xevious 3D\/G+.  Joshua calls almost every space shooter game a \u201cspace rangers\u201d game.  I have no idea when or how that started.  Actually I think he just could not say Slipheed, which was the first shooter that I purchased for him, so we started calling it \u201cspace rangers\u201d and thus the shooter alias was born.<\/p>\n<p>The funny thing with our Xevious 3D\/G+ experience was that the game does not use the analog stick, just standard d-pad fun.  It took Joshua a few minutes to adjust, but after that we had a good time.<\/p>\n<p>My personal opinion is that Xevious 3D\/G+ has no significant place in gaming history unless you happen to be a huge Xevious fan, and have to have every game in the series.  Not that Xevious 3D\/G+ is bad, it is actually average, it is just that the PlayStation had many better shooters such as Gradius Deluxe Pack.  Now that is a game that I wish I never sold.<\/p>\n<p>Back Xevious 3D\/G+; I think I will hold on to the game a while longer, because it is a cheap (read free) way for me to give Joshua some new gaming experiences.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of you are thinking, \u201cWhat the hell?\u201d But yes, there it is; a discussion of Xevious 3D\/G+ is taking over the blog. In an attempt to clean out my gaming library (see previous post) I am throwing some older games in my library into my play rotation to discern what should stay and what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2005\/01\/16\/xevious-3dg\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Xevious 3D\/G+<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}