## Description

_X-Orbtek II_ is an action game played on a single screen. The player
controls a space ship and needs to collect orbs which pop up all over the
screen. Unfortunately they steadily grow smaller and only if one was
collected, the next ones appear. This means once the player misses all orbs,
the game is over. Additionally there is some opposition on the screen, e.g.
asteroids or hostile space ships, which deplete the ship’s health bar if
touched. Sometimes extras float into the screen which have positive effects
when collected: resetting orbs, speeding up the ship, spawning more orbs,
invisibility or a decoy.

The main addition compared to the predecessor is the opportunity to use force
against some of the enemies: the ship has a gun, mines (explode when something
– including the player – touches them) and a bomb which destroys everything in
a radius. The three other modes are classic (resembles the original _X-Orbtek_
with no weapons and only one life), survival (multiplayer-only variant in
which all players have their own orbs to collect) and custom.

X-Orbtek II