Viriax (2.6Mb)
The latest version of this great (medical terror) arcade platform game came out just two weeks ago. It has enemies, a limited supply of energy and bosses to defeat/get past, as you try to invade the body’s system. Is it your nightmare (!), or the system you are trying to invades’ nightmare? It all depends on the fight you put up, or down to how well the body fights back!
Ok, so computer viruses are bad, but what if you are the virus, and your aim is to infect the body/system? Well this ain’t half fast and furious, and no levels are the same as levels are randomly generated at each play. You have to reach and destroy a medical implant, before it destroys you. Retro graphics and music accompany your travels!
“Be part of the Viriax infection and show humans who set the rules in the Earth. Infect important organs one by one, and destroy the ultimate defensive hope of humanity, the Nanobot Assembly System, implemented as a chip near the brain.
Reach the organ core to infect it, but watch your energy level: each time you move up or attack you will lose part of your energy, as also you will lose a bunch of energy if you get hit by an enemy cell. Collect red globules to keep your energy full and think when it’s a good moment to stop and make some points.”
To successfully infect a human is a task not to be undertaken lightly. You’ll need persistence, skill and determination all in good measure. But your stamina diminishes until you can recoup some of your lost energy, and there are a multitude of enemies to face. Humanity will fight back for all of its worth! There are only so many, in fact not nearly enough, red globules for you to recharge your energy bank, and as a minutely small virus, your stamina is very limited in the first place. So you have to play it coy and advance only when you think it’s prudent. This means choosing your moments well and jumping very carefully from platform to platform. Or are you going to take risks and advance rapidly, in the sometimes vain hope, of a cluster of red globules around the next corner? But each level can be overcome, or can it? And there’s just you to defeat humanity. If your stamina goes or an enemy defeats you, it’s game over, sayonara; adieu and start all over again! There’s the temptation to go for it as fast as you can when you take hit damage from an anti-body and have a short period of ‘grace immunity’ from further attack, but the reality is that a steadier pace might just get you that little bit further!
Now to the nitty gritty of it; you’ll be hitting the 'Up' arrow key single or multiple jumping from tissue platform to tissue platform and performing dives in much the same manner. You go up to advance, but have to dive in order to gain speed to attack and penetrate enemy antibodies and such-like, and to get energy from the power-up blocks by splitting and breaking into them. Each jump made from non-solid tissue costs energy, as does each downward dive. You swim through the little red blood cells to gain energy.
INGAME CONTROLS
Left - Move left
Right - Move right
Up or Z - Jump
Down or X - Attack
Esc - Exit to main title
MAIN SCREEN CONTROLS
F - Fullscreen
I - Instructions
Esc - Quit
You pick what body part to infect so for example - You might start of in some poor host’s lung with an obstacle course of bubbles and air vents - and have to infect the lungs and heart before proceeding. As you play, you’ll get to learn the various bosses’ patterns of attack. If you get lucky, and have a good run, who knows how far you will get! But there’s the way awful difficulty of the stomach, the brain, or the final showdown with the nanotech factory that’s secreting all those really nasty metal enemies across the levels! Then you take a bad hit and think 'I’ll just try again'! You know you’ll have to give it one more go!
It’s a great idea for a free game and is very well implemented, so much so that it’s loads of fun to play!
Viriax is entertaining, super fun to play, and really (infectuously!) addictive as you try to beat your previous best score for each level. This is one that so deserves to be in your system/ collection!
Video, Manual and Download HERE
ps - no anti-virus program was harmed in making this game!
