Iridion II
Shin'en Multimedia · 2020 · Action, Shoot 'Em Up, Retro, Space, Arcade
PC
Positive91% · 22
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About Iridion II
More than a hundred years have passed since the Earth was attacked by the vicious IRIDION forces. Legend tells of a single brave SHN Fighter pilot who found his way to destroy the evil IRIDION mainframe. After this glorious victory, all remaining enemy ships disappeared from known space. Humans began to colonize the planet systems of the IRIDION home galaxy. Peace and freedom came back to mankind. The IRIDION menace was history.
Until now.
Within only one day, all communication with the human space outposts had been lost. The last transmissions made it clear that the IRIDION Empire had returned and have taken over all colonized systems. Planet Earth is too far away to send help in time. Again only a single, but powerfully equipped spaceship is within reach to stop the IRIDION forces before they can go on to attack the last remaining planet of human beings... Earth.
FEATURES
MODES OF PLAY
Until now.
Within only one day, all communication with the human space outposts had been lost. The last transmissions made it clear that the IRIDION Empire had returned and have taken over all colonized systems. Planet Earth is too far away to send help in time. Again only a single, but powerfully equipped spaceship is within reach to stop the IRIDION forces before they can go on to attack the last remaining planet of human beings... Earth.
FEATURES
- Travel through 5 huge galaxies containing 15 unique and challenging planets
- Encounter over 200 enemies and 30 boss enemies
- Collect power-ups to gain new weapons, increase fire power, refill energy
- Choose between Starter, Advanced and Ace pilot difficulty setting
- Virtual Reality Training - ingame tutorial which explains all of the strategies needed to be victorious.
- Soundtrack with more than 25 songs, a "create-your-own-musical-theme" part, and a gallery for you to unlock.
- Remap controls to your liking with both keyboard and gamepad support
- Save your progress at any point in the game
MODES OF PLAY
- Story Mode - fight against the IRIDION armada in 15 planets spread over 5 galaxies.
- Arcade Mode - replay levels you already cleared in story mode and hunt for high scores. (secrets and beam combos have been added in arcade mode to a make the high score hunt more interesting)
- Challenge Mode - Try to beat all 15 end bosses as fast as you can.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Iridion II is an ancient game from 2003. It's a whopping 20 years old at the time of this review. The game lacks support for any modern gaming display resolutions (or widescreen monitors), hasn't been modernised or updated to run smoothly on modern gaming PCs. Despite this lack of modernisation, it carries a pretty high price tag for such an ancient game. This seems to have been put on Steam as a nostalgia gouge. This handheld console (Gameboy Advance) ported game is meant to look like a 3D version of Galaga/Space Invaders/whatever, so not really pushing the envelope, despite this being 20 years newer than Asteroids. It's advertised as having 3D graphics but this is only a rudimentary effect, raster images/sprites displayed over an ultra simplistic, ultra low poly 3D framework. As a rail shooter, you can move your little ship left or right but there's no true 3D gameplay. just fight waves of enemies as they come at you. Galaga from a different perspective... but what do we expect from console games? From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. There's no option to change the resolution and no useful…5 found this helpful
An easygoing shmup for the Game-Boy Advance that has a soundtrack among the best of the system, and also an impressive presentation overall. Game-play wise it offers a good ammount of content with 15 stages, but it is a slower paced and more of a traditional shooter in its design, with some memorization heavy sections but nothing really notable other than the the boss rush mode in terms of challenge; also a handful of tunes can become too repetitive like the one for the bosses.3 found this helpful
I like this game, as this is a digital version of the GameBoy Advance title. The graphics, the music (oof, the music!), the gameplay, the bosses, the planets (really cool colors :D), everything in this game is awesome and I'm glad I have this title once more :'D1 found this helpful
One of the best shoot em up ever made, the boss of the software house is a talent like Chris huelsbeck, and the track already prove it. Incredibile super render shooter, last shooter of the Golden age
Still great, although a basic port. It would have been nice if the graphics had been updated in resolution a little whilst still keeping a degree of crunchy pixel goodness.
Game is not bad gameplay wise but figuring out controls is a pain in the a**. there are 15 levels that can be completed in about 2 hours. The levels are relatively short and not too hard, i quite enjoyed my time with it.
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