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84% positive73 reviews
Steam Deck
Playable
Runs on
Windows
Price
US$3.99

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Millennium Soldier: Expendable cover

1999 · Rage · Adventure · Shoot 'em up

Millennium Soldier: Expendable

In this sci-fi action game, reflex shooting dominates over planning or tactical play. Expect non-stop action from fighting and relentlessly killing off tons of bad guys across more than 20 levels of 3rd person 3D action, taking place inside and outside. Powering up your weaponry is crucial - there are 18 different ones to collect, from pulse cannons to particle accelerators and rockets to missiles. Two player cooperative and deathmatch modes are provided.

Released
15 May 1999
Platforms
AndroidDreamcastPlayStationWindows
Genres
AdventureShoot 'em upShooter
Developers
Rage
Publishers
Imagineer
Modes
Single-player
Perspective
Bird view / Isometric
Themes
ActionScience fiction
Country
United Kingdom
Age ratings
ESRB TUSK 12
Languages
English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese
Time to beat
4hmain story6hcompletionist

About

Millennium Soldier: Expendable, known in Japan as Seitai Heiki Expendable (生体兵器エクスペンダブル, Seitai Heiki Ekusupendaburu; lit. "Organism Weapon Expendable"), and in North America as just Expendable, is a run and gun video game that was released by Rage Software for Microsoft Windows in 1999. It was later ported to the Dreamcast and PlayStation consoles. A remake of the game, entitled Expendable: Rearmed, was released for Android in 2012.

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.

›Story

Somewhere in the future a hostile alien race conquers most of the galaxy. Scientists developed the “Millennium Soldier” project by cloning two super-soldiers. Armed with blasters they will battle scores of monsters, robots and boss aliens to save us and get a well-earned reward.

In 2463 a race of vicious aliens has invaded human planets, wiping out the population of Novocastria first. Only the Millennium Soldier can lead the human fightback.

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Gameplay

Expendable takes place sometime in the post-apocalyptic future, where most of the galaxy was conquered by a hostile alien race. To combat the aliens, scientists had developed a "Millennium Soldier" project by cloning two super-soldiers. Like most top-down run and gun video games, Expendable has collectible upgrades and weapons, and features common aspects like bosses and levels, familiar with most games of this type.

Development

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

Reception

The game received mixed or average reviews on all platforms according to the review aggregation website GameRankings. Edge praised the PC version's graphics, stating that "the textures are near works of art, aided by colour lighting, true shadows and ubiquitous explosions." An unnamed reviewer of Next Generation in its August 1999 issue called the same PC version "a smart little shooter, but one with limited appeal in the PC market. A forthcoming Dreamcast version may be a better fit."

However, their premonition was proven wrong one month later in the magazine's September 1999 issue, when Jeff Lundrigan called the Japanese Dreamcast import "a shameful waste of technology", and warned the reader to "Stay away. Stay far, far away." In Japan, Famitsu gave the latter a little bit better score of 26 out of 40.

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

Releases by platform
PlatformReleasedRegions
Windows31 December 1999Europe · Japan 31 December 1999
Dreamcast31 December 1999North America
PlayStation23 April 2000North America

Title IDsone per regional release, with its latest update

Title ids and disc serials by release
PlatformTitle IDRegionLatest update
DreamcastT-15101D-50Europe—
T-15003MJapan—
T-15104NNorth America—
PlayStationSLES-01716Europe—
SLUS-01075North America—

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