![]() ![]() There are several levels in which you can get to as much as 3 different secret levels from 3 different places inside the same level!Īlso, several (believed to be 3) secret games were added to Tyrian v2.0 (and consequently, Tyrian 2000), the first of which is called Zinglon's Ale. Over a dozen secret levels can be reached, and there's also a secret level which leads to another. Tyrian is STUFFED with secrets, it's simply amazing. Tyrian's complete arsenal amound to over a dozen type of ships and over 100 weapon types! Groups + It features a multi-layered ship upgrade engine, in which you can change hulls, decide upon and upgrade your front and rear weapons, buy better shields and generators and even add ship "sidekicks". Tyrian also has two player arcade mode and supports network/modem/serial play. Through your struggles, you will find yourself again and again betrayed by friends and allies, your parents will be killed and you will have to return to points you've already been to (with variations on the levels) in order to remove further threats to the galaxy and to yourself, all for the ultimate goal of overthrowing MicroSol. Again and again, Trent must fight off MicroSol, a company with the evil intent of taking over the galaxy. You play the role of Trent Hawkings, this galaxy's ace solo fighter-pilot, whose luck forces him to save the galaxy, one time after another. It gained a following even larger than the classic Raptor: Call of the Shadows, and rightfully so: it has a plot. Tyrian is nothing like your run-of-the-mill shoot-'em-up. It also adds another option called "Timed Battle". It is essentially the same game with an additional new episode (Hazudra Fodder), a revised engine (less bugs and better controls) and added Windows support. The publisher apparently went out of business sometime in the early 2000s, and it is not known if their file archives/FTP content have been preserved to any extent.Tyrian 2000 is a direct re-release of the original action smash, Tyrian. There's a slim hope that the demo versions were put on CDs with other games published by XSIV, but those are very few, and rare. Secondly, some magazine had already put the initially released English demo (which is mostly identical to the shareware version of Tyrian), and probably did not bother to waste CD space on localized edition. In fact, some magazines put the original 1995-96 shareware versions on their CDs as part of the "90s nostalgia" in the early 2000s. First, Tyrian 2000 was a re-release of a 1995 title which was rather well known and played. I think that there are two reasons for that. Many are searcheable online via Hallfiry's gaming magazine coverdisk catalogue. We actually have access to a large number of German, French and Italian magazine coverdisks from the era - some stored at, some in Hallfiry's collection, and some at the French "Abandonware Magazines" website. I'd assume that the language specific files could be found on some magazine CDs for each country. An updated demo version was promptly uploaded to the website: However it turns out that the developers released an incomplete demo, with some files and the readme missing from the installer. This demo was uploaded in November 2000 at the World Tree Games website and is preserved by the Wayback Machine: Tyrian 2000 Demo.zip. The demo was updated accordingly, with the new logo, copyright information, as well as some fixes. At some point in 2000, the developer, Eclipse Software, changed their name to World Tree Games. The first demo of Tyrian 2000 was released in October 1999 and is still widely available now. I wonder if anyone happens to have any of these version, or knows something about possible full game releases in these languages?Īnother rare version is the updated English demo. None of these non-English demo versions seem to be available anywhere on the Internet. The only trace of these versions is a file containing French in-game interface, which was mistakenly included with the English language SoundBlaster Live! patch for the game: However, these files were stored at FTP sites and were not archived by the Wayback Machine. The files were called TYRIAN2000F.exe, TYRIAN2000G.exe and TYRIAN2000S.exe. The demo version (essentially the shareware episode) was translated into these languages and available from the XSIV Games website ( Wayback Machine copy). When Tyrian was updated and re-released as Tyrian 2000 by XSIV Games (later renamed into Stealth Productions) in the late 90s/early 2000s, there were apparently plans to market localized versions of the game in Europe, with French, German and Spanish translations. ![]()
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