Protöthea
Protöthea is a scrolling vertical shooter with 3D graphics played from a top down perspective. Controls for movement and aiming of weapons are separate, with players manipulating an aiming cursor on screen…
Protöthea is a shooter, released 2 July 2008 on Wii.
What Protöthea is
Protöthea was released in 2008. It is available on Wii only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Protöthea is a scrolling vertical shooter with 3D graphics played from a top down perspective. Controls for movement and aiming of weapons are separate, with players manipulating an aiming cursor on screen, similar to Geometry Wars. Players are tasked with destroying an asteroid, Maqno 01, and eliminate an enemy faction named The Core who wish to mine it and others like it in order to build an army of war machines. The Wii version of Protöthea brings a number of additional features to the game including additional levels, enemies and power-ups, in addition to enhanced and redesigned graphics. Control has also been designed to take advantage of the Wii Remote, with the pointer function used…
How it plays
Its themes are science fiction.
How it was received
Protöthea holds a critic score of 20 out of 100. That places it above 1% of the 3,305 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 45 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Protöthea launched on 2 July 2008, within three weeks of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, Persona 4, Street Fighter IV and Battlefield: Bad Company. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, Persona 4, Street Fighter IV, Battlefield: Bad Company.
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