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Space Crusaders

Crusaders Of Space: Open Range is a single person, shareware, space shooter of the fixed screen variety. It is the sequel to the game Crusaders Of Space. The game consists of two missions/episodes each of…

31 December 2004

Space Crusaders is an arcade developed by Adept Studios GD, released 31 December 2004 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Space Crusaders is

Space Crusaders is an arcade game developed by Adept Studios GD and released in 2004. It was published by Alawar. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Crusaders Of Space: Open Range is a single person, shareware, space shooter of the fixed screen variety. It is the sequel to the game Crusaders Of Space. The game consists of two missions/episodes each of which contains five ten-level missions that can be played on three difficulty settings. As the player progresses the opposing enemy ships become progressively more numerous and harder to defeat. The player has only one life with which to play this game and achieve a high score. However as they progress they can collect weapon power ups and shields and when they take damage instead of dying instantly their ship loses one of its power ups. In each mission the last level, level ten, is…
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Space Crusaders launched on 31 December 2004, within three weeks of Resident Evil 4 (2005), Resident Evil 4, Gran Turismo 4 and Cave Story.

Released around the same time: Resident Evil 4 (2005), Resident Evil 4, Gran Turismo 4, Cave Story.

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When did Space Crusaders come out?
Space Crusaders was released on 31 December 2004 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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