Millennium Soldier: Expendable

Millennium Soldier: Expendable
European PlayStation cover art
Developer(s)	Rage Software
Publisher(s)	Imagineer (Japan) Infogrames (USA and Europe)
Programmer(s)	Alan Webb Phil Scott Kevin Franklin
Composer(s)	Gordan Hall
Platform(s)	Windows, Dreamcast, PlayStation, Android
Release date(s)	September 9, 1999 Dreamcast ^NA September 9, 1999 ^JP June 24, 1999 ^EU October 14, 1999 PlayStation ^NA April 22, 2000 ^EU 2000 Windows ^NA 1999 ^EU 1999 ^JP May 28, 1999 Android Expendable: Rearmed ^INT November 8, 2012
Genre(s)	Run and Gun
Mode(s)	Single player Two player

Millennium Soldier: Expendable (known as Expendable in the U.S.A. and Seitai Heiki Expendable in Japan) is the title of a Run and Gun video game that was released by British developer Rage Software for Microsoft Windows in 1998,with ports to the Sega Dreamcast in 1999, and the PlayStation in 2000. The remake of the game for Android based devices was released in late 2012 as Expendable: Rearmed. It is in the format of a modern arcade game. The player starts with 7 "credits" and can continue until running out of credits. A second player can join the game at any time by pressing start.

Like most top-down run and gun video games, it has collectible upgrades and weapons, and features common aspects like bosses and levels, familiar with most games of this type.

Millennium Soldier: Expendable supports Environment-Mapped Bump Mapping, a DirectX 6 feature first supported by the Matrox Millennium G400.^[1]

Gameplay

Weapons available

• Blaster (default)-a gun with infinite ammunition, but slow firing rate.
• Machine gun-fires several bursts of bullets in a few seconds.
• Bomb-thrown ahead by pressing R2, causing considerable damage. Weak on range.
• Pulse shot-a shining green blast with a short range, but deals more damage than default blaster.
• Spread shot-fires a number of shots spread out in a wide range, but consumes a lot of ammunition if spreading range is high. Range depends on ammunition count of weapon.
• Rainbow-coloured laser-
• Flamethrower-
• Homing Missile
• Rocket-
• Shotgun

Plot

Millennium Soldier takes place sometime in the Post-apocalyptic future, where most of the galaxy was conquered by a hostile alien race. To combat the aliens, scientists had developed a "Millennium Soldier" project (hence the title) through cloning two super-soldiers (hence, Player 1 and Player 2) to battle the aliens.

Reception

Millennium Soldier: Expendable
Aggregate score Aggregator Score GameRankings 62% (25 reviews)[2] (DC) 69% (8 reviews)[3] (PC) 55% (8 reviews)[4] (PS1) Review scores Publication Score CVG 7.0/10[5] (DC) GameSpot 7.0/10[6] (DC) 6.5/10[7] (PS1) IGN 7.3/10[8] (DC) 6.0/10[9] (PS1)

Notes

1. Shimpi, Anand Lal (May 20, 1999). "Matrox Millennium G400 & G400MAX". AnandTech. Retrieved December 3, 2014.
2. "Millennium Soldier: Expendable Dreamcast Reviews". GameRankings. Retrieved 2009-06-11.
3. "Millennium Soldier: Expendable PC Reviews". GameRankings. Retrieved 2009-06-11.
4. "Millennium Soldier: Expendable PlayStation Reviews". GameRankings. Retrieved 2009-06-11.
5. "Millennium Soldier: Expendable Dreamcast Review". Computer and Video Games. Retrieved 2009-06-10.
6. Mielke, James (1999-07-02). "Millennium Soldier: Expendable Dreamcast Review". GameSpot. Retrieved 2009-06-11.
7. Provo, Frank (2000-05-24). "Millennium Soldier: Expendable PlayStation Review". GameSpot. Retrieved 2009-06-11.
8. Dunham, Jeremy (1999-09-08). "Millennium Soldier: Expendable Dreamcast Review". IGN. Retrieved 2009-06-11.
9. Zdyrko, David (2000-05-01). "Millennium Soldier: Expendable PlayStation Review". IGN. Retrieved 2009-06-11.

External links

Millennium Soldier: Expendable on MobyGames