Millennium Soldier: Expendable

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Millennium Soldier: Expendable

Developer(s)	Rage Software
Publisher(s)	Imagineer (Japan) Infogrames (USA and Europe)
Platform(s)	Windows Dreamcast PlayStation
Release date	1998
Genre(s)	Shoot 'em up
Mode(s)	Single player Two player
Rating(s)	ESRB: Teen
Media	CD-ROM, GD-ROM

Millennium Soldier: Expendable (known as Expendable in the USA and Seitai Heiki Expendable in Japan) is the title of a shoot 'em up video game that was released by British developer Rage Software for Microsoft Windows in 1998, the Sega Dreamcast in 1999, and the Sony PlayStation in 2000. It is in the format of a modern arcade game. The player starts with 7 "credits" and can continue until running out of credits. A second player can join the game at any time by pressing start.

Like most top-down run and gun videogames, it has collectable upgrades and weapons, and features common aspects like bosses and levels, familiar with most games of this type.

Millennium Soldier: Expendable supports Environment-Mapped Bump Mapping, a DirectX 6 feature first supported by the Matrox Millennium G400.[1]

[edit] Story

Millenium Soldier tales place sometime in the future, where most of the galaxy was conquered by a hostile alien race. To combat the aliens, scientists had developed a "Millenium Soldier" project (hence the title) through cloning two super-soldiers (hence, Player 1 and Player 2) to battle the aliens.

[edit] Weapons available

Blaster (default)-a gun with infinite ammunition, but slow firing rate.
Machine gun-fires several bursts of bullets in a few short seconds.
Bomb-thrown ahead by pressing R2, causing considerable damage. Weak on range.
Pulse shot-a shining green blast with a short range, but deals more damage than default blaster.
Spreaded shot-fires a number of shots spreaded out in a wide range, but consumes a lot of ammunition if spreading range is high. Range depends on ammunition count of weapon.
Rainbow-coloured laser-
Flamethrower-
Homing Missiles
Rockets-
Shotgun