Amazon Maximum Age: 17 years Amazon Minimum Age: 72 months Binding: Video Game Brand: Majesco EAN: 0096427012467 ESRB Age Rating: Everyone Label: Majesco Sales Inc. Manufacturer: Majesco Sales Inc. Platform: Game Boy Advance Publisher: Majesco Sales Inc. Sales Rank: 15769 Studio: Majesco Sales Inc.
Product Description: Iridion 3D is reminiscent of arcade shooters such as Galaga or Gradius, except that Iridion is done in over-the-shoulder third-person 3-D. The problem is that this perspective really, really hurts the gameplay. One can only wonder how much better Iridion 3D might have been had the developers chosen a more workable point of view.
Your ship sometimes blocks your sightline as you shoot, and it's extremely difficult to accurately gauge distance and depth perception. Is that a small enemy that's close to my ship (maybe even about to collide with it), or is it a large one that's farther away? Are they shooting at me or are those "shots" actually distant ships? Are those enemies or part of the tunnel scenery? Another problem is the jerky control. If you're flying through a tunnel trying to kill the bad guys, you should be able to literally fly in circles. With the Game Boy Advance directional pad, squares are about all you can manage.
At least the game is extremely pretty to look at. Iridion 3D boasts one of the best graphics engines available for the Game Boy Advance, and considering the competition, that's no idle compliment. Progressing through the stages and worlds one is bombarded with beautiful scenery almost as much as enemy fire.
Yes, the game looks spectacular, and it will partially appease arcade shooter fans waiting for Game Boy Advance conversions of classics such as R-Type and the aforementioned coin-ops. It's just too important to see what you're doing in a game of this type to recommend the title to anyone but the most hard-core fans of the genre. --Andrew S. Bub
Pros:
Gorgeous graphics and explosions
Cons:
Yo
Amazon.com Review: Iridion 3D is reminiscent of arcade shooters such as Galaga or Gradius, except that Iridion is done in over-the-shoulder third-person 3-D. The problem is that this perspective really, really hurts the gameplay. One can only wonder how much better Iridion 3D might have been had the developers chosen a more workable point of view.
Your ship sometimes blocks your sightline as you shoot, and it's extremely difficult to accurately gauge distance and depth perception. Is that a small enemy that's close to my ship (maybe even about to collide with it), or is it a large one that's farther away? Are they shooting at me or are those "shots" actually distant ships? Are those enemies or part of the tunnel scenery? Another problem is the jerky control. If you're flying through a tunnel trying to kill the bad guys, you should be able to literally fly in circles. With the Game Boy Advance directional pad, squares are about all you can manage.
At least the game is extremely pretty to look at. Iridion 3D boasts one of the best graphics engines available for the Game Boy Advance, and considering the competition, that's no idle compliment. Progressing through the stages and worlds one is bombarded with beautiful scenery almost as much as enemy fire.
Yes, the game looks spectacular, and it will partially appease arcade shooter fans waiting for Game Boy Advance conversions of classics such as R-Type and the aforementioned coin-ops. It's just too important to see what you're doing in a game of this type to recommend the title to anyone but the most hard-core fans of the genre. --Andrew S. Bub
Pros:
Gorgeous graphics and explosions
Cons:
Your ship blocks your view
It's difficult to accurately gauge depth and distance
The controls aren't well suited to this style of play
Amazon.com Product Description: When a hotshot pilot returns to Earth from a deep-space mission to find that the evil Iridion Empire has taken over his home planet, he does what any natural, warm-blooded earthling would do: he starts kicking alien butt! Iridion 3-D pushes the Game Boy Advance hardware to new levels of near-3-D graphics and lustrous color in this space shooter. Players fly their SHN fighters toward oncoming hordes of aliens through seven large levels. Be sure to pick up the five extra weapons along the way, each of which can be powered-up three times, to prepare for the big-boss showdowns.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - It's not THAT horrible
I think it should at least deserve a decent score. It was one of my favorite games for the GBA, and I had played it through so much I remembered almost every wave of enemies, and where they would appear. Nice graphics, and I never got tired of it. I had lost my copy a while ago, and so I gave up looking and decided to buy it off here.
Really, it's not that hard, the first level is pretty easy to get through after a few trials and errors, you just have to get used to the controls. At least there is an option such as passwords to let you skip those last few levels, as other shoot-em-ups I've played doesn't allow you to do that, and once you lose all lives, you have to start over from the very beginning.
It's short, but I loved playing it. You can probably beat it in about one or two sittings, but I think it was still enjoyable.
Rating: - One flaming piece o' crap comeing right up!
If you buy this game your basicly getting ready to buy well, a flaming piece of crap! Although it may sound rude stareing at burning poop is more fun because you might catch on fire ohhh how exciteing. The only thing this game has going for it is graphics. Its not fun you shot at spinning dots for goodness sake! Ill go threw everything in the game and youll see why it sucks so so much
Gameplay 1/10: The game play is painfully bad. There is no saveing system you have to wright down a 'password' witch you get after beating a boss at the end of the level and of course in bad taste loseing to the boss causes you start all over. Also the game is incredibly difficult often takeing 10 or more trys to beat the first level!! Also you have no enemys really in the first level you shoot at spinning dots that change colors what the heck is that!!?? It takes about 2 mintues to die and start all over, gahhh!
Graphics/Music: 8/10 The music is pretty dang annoying but the graphics are very good especcialy for a gameboy. Of course the graphics are dark makeing it hard to see alot of times wow another mistake but theres no surprises there
Fun factor: 0/10 Yes the dreaded zero. Why do i give it zero, well its not a fun game at all not one bit. It feels like you are forceing your self to play it and since its so hard if you want to beat it youll be throwing it at your wall and screaming "Why the heck did i waste my money on THIS!" No wonder it comes free when you buy game boy advances.... Anyone who plays this most likely is forceing them selves to do it or are programers forced to play it.
Storyline: 3/10 The story line is pitiful but at least they tried. And its best jet fighter games dont have storylines no matter what. If its a airplaine fight game its goona suck in the storyline department so dont hold it against the makers.
All in all I think this game is painfully bad and the only good thing about it is its graphics witch simply do not make up a game. I cant believe any company made this much less nintendo. Dont waste your money on this spend it on something else theres so many better games then this, this flaming piece of crap!
Rating: - A giant piece of CRAP!
This game is hidous an absoulte diaster i dont know HOW it could get any worse let me just begin
Pros: Good graphics Good sound Fairly good controls
Cons: Heres were you see alot of things listed
You cant save you have to get past a point in the game to get a password to wright down and type in every time thats kinda bad
It takes like 3mins to die and you have to start the level all over again.
Theres NOTHING to do in it i mean all you do is press left and right and the A button thats right nothing else they could have at least used more than three controls. And also all you do is move left and right and shoot a simple things like garabage or some fan that is somehow floating in the middle of no where.
And lastly, its hard to hard it can take you awhile to just beat a level thats frustarting!
Over all sound and graphics dont make a game what it is so this game sucks dont get it inless you wish to be tourted itll save you 20 bucks to! So if i could give it 0 stars i would. Its a waste of space just to own
Rating: - More fun than... Nothing
I got Iridion 3D from amazon.com the other day ..., and thought I'd post a little review of it.
In short for the skimmers, I'm having more fun writing this review than I did playing the game.
The story of the game goes something like this:
Show picture of city Show picture of battleship Show 1, no... 2, no.... 3!! blips on a radar screen Show distressed guy in control room Show city again Show UFO over city! Show 3 evil space ships shooting city! Show two buildings of the city on fire!!
Yes, that is literally how the introduction cinematic plays out, scene by scene. But before you see that, you watch 20 seconds of logos by the companies that made the game (they are non-skippable of course).
After that you are given a menu with a couple of options:
Start Options Password
Yes, that's right, the game has no memory at all. It doesn't save your options settings, and it doesn't save your progress in the levels. When you complete a level you are given a 9 digit code to write down in order to start the game from that level in the future. Amazingly, when you turn the game off and on again, that code still works, so it is obviously hard-coded into the game. But who is going to carry around a pad of paper with them so they can "save" and "load" their game? This may have been acceptable back in the days of the NES when you sat at home and could actually write down numbers, but the GBA is a portable game machine.
So after you press start or enter your password to start where you left off, you enter a level. The level names are quite creative... here are a few of them:
Dogfight above the Ocean Air Combat above the Clouds Escape through the Disposal tunnel
Yes, those are the real names of the levels. I think they fit in nicely with the storyline, don't you?
Upon entering a level, you begin moving forwards through the tunnel or over the ocean or above the clouds. You hold down the A button to start shooting, then you move up, down, left and right randomly. Repeat until you finish the game.
By holding the A button down, you reach the maximum firing rate of your ship. You don't even have to tap the shoot button really fast to shoot faster. Just holding down the A button is as fast as you can get. Then you move around, trying not to get shot by the other ships. The only problem with this is, your ship is so big and the angle so wrong, you can't even see the bullets that are coming at you half the time. In order to shoot an enemy ship, you have to position your own ship directly in front of them because of the perspective of the game, but in doing this, you completely block the enemy ship out of view and can't tell if you are hitting him or not, or if he is shooting at you. After 30 seconds of this, you quickly realize that it isn't worth it to try and shoot the other ships, so you just start hiding in a corner of the screen so you can actually see the bullets before they hit you.
However, this raises another problem. The field of depth in the game is completely wrong, and it is quite nearly impossible to tell when a bullet is about to hit you. When a bullet looks it is 300 "game feet" away from you, it is actually about 2 feet in front of your ship, and is about to hit you. Plus because your ship is so big, you don't even see half the bullets before they hit you.
Needless to say, this all makes the game terribly unfun to play, because you really have no way of avoiding a bullet that you can't see, or that looks like it should not hit you for another 2 seconds.
The boss battles are a little more varied, but still revolve around you trying to dodge their bullets while strafing back and forth enough to hit them until they die. But at least they are different, and allow you to see a few more visual tricks and treats.
The game is actually pretty easy once you realize that you should just focus on dodging bullets rather than trying to shoot at anything. I got to the 4th level out of 7 in less than 10 minutes. Sadly I don't think I will beat the game, because it is simply too boring to waste time on.
The one good thing I can comment on about the game is the graphics. They really are quite amazing for a GBA game, especially considering it was a launch title. The framerates are extremely smooth, and the graphics, though they are all 2D bitmaps, really give an excellent illusion of being 3D. Each level is unique, and matches the level description perfectly (Air combat above the clouds, for example).
Overall this is easily the worst GBA game I have played, and I would not recommend it to anyone. If I had payed any more than the [$$] I paid for it, I would consider suing the company that designed it to get my 10 minutes back.
Rating: - Its not Bad, Not Bad at all.
This game is not bad! I bought this game because it was 5 bucks and my expectations were low. This game is fun!!! its not one your going to play nonstop on a plane to antartica, however. The game has obvious flaws, but it still fun for at least 5 or 6 hours. The major Problem is the password save. Also, it is very rare when the ship blocks your view, it happens like, once a level. For 5 dollars this game is a steal and you should buy it. (P.S- Come to E3 some time because ti is soooooo much fun.) P.S #2- Final Fantasy Rocks- Go Squall!
- It's not THAT horrible
- One flaming piece o' crap comeing right up!
- A giant piece of CRAP!
