DarXide

DarXide is a video game in the action genre developed by Frontier Developments Ltd. and published by SEGA Enterprises Ltd. originally released in 1995. It is currently playable on SEGA 32X.

One of the last 32X games released (and exclusively in Europe), DarXide is a 3D space shooter, inspired in part by the arcade gameplay of Asteroids. It is one of the few 32X games to use texture-mapped polygons.

Players control a lone starship racing to destroy incoming asteroids and alien ships before they annihilate defenseless human miners and colonies. Asteroids break up into smaller rocks, which can also be hunted down and destroyed. The aliens also arrive in larger and more dangerous ships.

Asteroids broken to their smaller size and then vaporized will sometimes drop shields or energy recharges, to repair damage caused by laser blasts or collisions. New weapons can also be found. Players have a time limit to complete all objectives in a phase before being forced to land and try again. The right side of the HUD shows the remaining asteroids (and their approximate size), while the left side shows the player's distance from their base (and thus the time remaining in the stage).

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