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Under Defeat

Under Defeat is a shoot 'em up arcade game by G.rev. It was released for the Sega Dreamcast in March 2006. The game takes place in an alternate reality based on World War II, and, in a controversial twist…

70 27 October 2005

Under Defeat is an arcade developed by G.rev, released 27 October 2005 on Dreamcast and Arcade.

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What Under Defeat is

Under Defeat is an arcade game developed by G.rev and released in 2005. It is available on Dreamcast and Arcade.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Under Defeat is a shoot 'em up arcade game by G.rev. It was released for the Sega Dreamcast in March 2006. The game takes place in an alternate reality based on World War II, and, in a controversial twist, players control German-speaking characters (under the banner of "the Empire"), fighting against enemies ("the Union") that speak English and possess weapons patterned after those of both real-life Allied and Axis powers (for example, naval units in Level 2 bear heavy resemblance toward the Imperial Japanese warships). The game was released very late in the life of the Dreamcast, but sold much better than expected, probably because there were no other home ports planned in the foreseeable…
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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.

How it was received

Under Defeat holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 35% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 3 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Under Defeat launched on 27 October 2005, within three weeks of Shadow of the Colossus, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Call of Duty 2 and Sid Meier's Civilization IV. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Shadow of the Colossus, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Call of Duty 2, Sid Meier's Civilization IV.

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When did Under Defeat come out?
Under Defeat was released on 27 October 2005 for Dreamcast and Arcade.

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