Terminal Velocity
Terminal Velocity is a simulation video game. It is an arcade-style flight combat game, with simpler game controls and physics than flight simulators. It is known for its fast, high-energy action sequences…
Terminal Velocity is a shooter developed by Terminal Reality, released 31 May 1995 on DOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Terminal Velocity is
Terminal Velocity is a shooter game developed by Terminal Reality and released in 1995. It was published by 3D Realms. It is available on DOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
The story is set in the year 2704, when the ASFAR (Alliance of Space-Faring Alien Races), of which Earth is a member, suddenly turns against Earth and their fleet ravages the planet, starting a war. The player flies a powerful starfighter, the TV-202, in a series of missions to defeat the enemy. In Episode 3, the player learns that a huge supercomputer known as X.I. (Xenocidic Initiative), located on Proxima Seven, is responsible for the war. Their final mission is to eliminate it. A hidden mission can take place after the main plot only in the CD ROM version where the player must investigate a sudden metamorphosis of an unknown nearby planet and destroy the force that changed the face of…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Terminal Velocity holds a critic score of 69 out of 100. That places it above 35% of the 3,305 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 1995 averaged 66, so it scored 3 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core Due 2 and 2 GB RAM. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.
What it launched against
Terminal Velocity launched on 31 May 1995, within three weeks of Tekken 2, Full Throttle, Worms and Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Tekken 2, Full Throttle, Worms, Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Terminal Velocity yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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Quick answers
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