

Terminal Velocity is a simulation video game. It is an arcade-style flight combat game, with simpler game controls and physics than flight simulators. It is known for its fast, high-energy action sequences, compared to flight simulators of the time. The story is set in the year 2704, when the ASFAR (Alliance of Space-Faring Alien Races), of which Earth is a member, suddenly turns against Earth and their fleet ravages the planet, starting a war. The player flies a powerful starfighter, the TV-202, in a series of missions to defeat the enemy. In Episode 3, the player learns that a huge supercomputer known as X.I. (Xenocidic Initiative), located on Proxima Seven, is responsible for the war. Their final mission is to eliminate it. A hidden mission can take place after the main plot only in the CD ROM version where the player must investigate a sudden metamorphosis of an unknown nearby planet and destroy the force that changed the face of the planet. It is revealed here that this force drove a man named Sy Wickens into insanity, and how the X.I. Supercomputer had "accidentally" digitized Sy Wickens' persona.
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Plot-driven, earnest, unpretentious and grave.
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
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- Platforms
- PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, DOS
- Developer
- Terminal Reality
- Publisher
- 3D Realms, MacSoft Games
- Released
- May 31, 1995
- Modes
- Single player, Multiplayer
- Perspective
- Third person
IGDB rating 7.4/10 from 22 ratings.
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