Xiphos Download (1990 Arcade action Game)

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As usual, a computer has been put in control of vast stretches of an intergalactic empire. As usual, it has failed and locked the entire area into limbo. As usual, you're the one who has to sort this mess out, by reaching the computer and destroying it.

Unfortunately, the area en route to it is vast and treacherous, with lots of obstacles to shoot out, and you will need to trade your items in order to get enough fuel to get there.

The gameplay resembles Elite, involving first-person space shooting and trading.


A simple and entertaining arcade space shooter - at least for a little while as the game quite fast doesn't have much to offer if you are looking for more than random space combat with little features. The actual game interface looks a lot like the first version of Elite but of course it doesn't offer anything like a game as Elite and it probably wasn't meant to either.

The actual story in the game is quite simple as you just have to blast up enemy ships. The more you kill the smarter the enemy ships get and of course makes it much more difficult for you to win. But fear not - you can get better weapons and upgrade your ship in other ways as well which is a nice thing in the game as it would otherwise simply be too boring. Sadly this is pretty much it as compared to other games in this genre you can get other spaceships to fly in and this really helps in getting you as a player to quit the game quite fast.

Xiphos can't be recommended as it simply doesn't offer anything new to this genre. The graphics are acceptable but the controls are poorly done, the story in the game is the same in the entire game and only little features are in the game. Only few people will be able to find Xiphos good enough to play for several hours.

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