Panzer Dragoon: Remake

The player moves an aiming reticle and shoots enemies while the dragon flies through 3D environments on a predetermined track. As one of six games available at the Sega Saturn's surprise North American launch,Panzer Dragoon was the first game created by Team Andromeda. Electronic Gaming Monthly named it game of the month and the best Saturn game of the year, and named it the 140th best game of all time in 2006. In particular, its art direction and post-apocalyptic universe gained acclaim. Panzer Dragoon was ported to Windows and PlayStation 2, and was followed by Panzer Dragoon II Zwei and Panzer Dragoon Saga for Saturn and Panzer Dragoon Orta for Xbox, which includes the original Panzer Dragoon as a bonus feature. Over the course of the game, the plot is revealed through cutscenes using the game's own graphic engine. Gameplay consists of a player controlling a flying dragon and his rider through an aiming reticle that can be moved over the whole screen with the D-pad; the player must shoot a variety of enemies in a 3D post-apocalyptic fantasy environment of barren landscapes and mysterious ruins of a fallen civilization. The field of vision can be directed with the aiming reticle on the x and y-axis, but the overall direction of travel is predetermined. The dragon follows the reticle movements, allowing the player to avoid enemy projectiles and obstacles. The player has a full, 360-degree field of view, and can quickly look left, right, forward, and behind the dragon. Two weapons are available: the rider's handgun, which can be fired with a single button press when an enemy enters the aiming reticle, and the homing laser fired by the dragon, which can lock on up to eight enemies by moving the reticle over them while holding down the fire button. Some situations with many enemies on screen require the use of the lock-on laser, while in others, quick gunshots to weak spots will prove more efficient. In the distant future, thousands of years after a great war between humans and their biologically engineered weapons, humans live in everything from small tribes to large nations. One nation, the Empire, has discovered a black tower in the middle of a lake near their capital, which gave them access to large amounts of ancient weapons which they used to beat back and control the ever present monsters in the world.