Millennium Soldier: Expendable

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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
Platforms Windows, Dreamcast, PlayStation, Android
Release date(s)
September 9, 1999
  • Dreamcast
        • PlayStation
          • Windows
                • Android
                  Expendable: Rearmed
                  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.

                  Development

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                  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

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                  External links

                  Millennium Soldier: Expendable on MobyGames