Codename: Tenka
Wars and pollution have driven the Earth to chaos. The year is 2096. The remaining colonists' only dream is to leave the planet and establish on Extrevius 328, a corporate conglomerate manufacturing plant for…
Codename: Tenka is a shooter developed by Psygnosis, released 1 July 1997 on PlayStation and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Codename: Tenka is
Codename: Tenka is a shooter game developed by Psygnosis and released in 1997. It is available on PlayStation and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Wars and pollution have driven the Earth to chaos. The year is 2096. The remaining colonists' only dream is to leave the planet and establish on Extrevius 328, a corporate conglomerate manufacturing plant for deadly warriors, known as Bionoids. You are Joseph B. Tenka, future Bionoid, very unpleased with the situation, and determined to stop the corporate evil plans. Over 20 missions with detailed briefings can be found in this Doom clone with creepy atmosphere which has been compared to Aliens.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Codename: Tenka holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 37% of the 3,305 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 1997 averaged 65, so it scored 5 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Codename: Tenka launched on 1 July 1997, within three weeks of Disney's Hercules Action Game and Lula: The Sexy Empire. It reviewed better than 1 of the 2.
Released around the same time: Disney's Hercules Action Game, Lula: The Sexy Empire.
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