Terminal Velocity is a simulation video game developed by Terminal Reality and published by 3D Realms for MS-DOS and Windows 95 and MacSoft for Mac OS. 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, compared to flight simulators of the time.
Terminal Reality also developed a similar game, Fury3, published that same year by Microsoft. It used the same game engine (Photex + Terrain Engine 1) and basic game mechanics, but was designed to run natively on the new Windows 95 operating system. Though considered to add little to the gameplay of Terminal Velocity,[1] Fury3 spawned an add-on pack, F!Zone, as well as a sequel, Hellbender.
The player can fly at low speeds without falling. The player’s craft also has no inertia, meaning its course can be changed instantly. There are seven different weapons, ranging from guns, blasters and rockets to homing missiles and a rare secret weapon, and only the first blaster type will never run out of ammo. Additionally, it possesses powerful afterburners that allow it to move at very high speed, which is useful in order to evade attacks, but sacrifices the ability to return fire temporarily (they can be selected like weapons, and if they are, the fire button will ignite the afterburners). The craft is able to survive some hits, and even some collisions with the terrain, including tunnels.
Each of the 27 missions consists of several objectives, e.g. enemies which must be destroyed, tunnel entrances and exits, mere checkpoints, and an extraction point.
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 the planet. It is revealed here that this force drove a man named Sy Wickens into insanity, and how the X.I. Supercomputer had "accidentally" digitized Sy Wickens' persona.
Minimum System Requirements | ||
CPU | Intel Core Due 2 | |
RAM | 2 GB RAM | |
OS | Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Windows 8 | |
Graphics Card | NVIDIA GeForce 510 | |
HDD Space | Unknown | |
Game Analysis | Provided that you have at least an NVIDIA GeForce 510 graphics card you can play the game. The minimum memory requirement for Terminal Velocity is 2 GB of RAM installed in your computer. To play Terminal Velocity you will need a minimum CPU equivalent to an Intel Pentium 4 2.00GHz. Terminal Velocity will run on PC system with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Windows 8 and upwards. Additionally it has a Mac version. |
Minimum System Requirements | ||
CPU | Intel Core Duo 2 | |
RAM | 2GB of RAM | |
OS | OSX 10.10.3 or later | |
Graphics Card | 64MB of video memory |
Minimum System Requirements | ||
CPU | 2.0 GHz | |
RAM | 1 GB RAM | |
OS | Ubuntu 14.04, Linux Mint 17 | |
Graphics Card | 256 MB VRAM, OpenGL compatible |