

In the Xbox version, the joy of killing is further enhanced because an aiming reticle, a common staple of third-person shooters, is excluded. Like an Italian chef that has just has his veal cutlet returned by a customer, Drake uses the strategy of darting around and flailing his arms everywhere, then randomly shooting the nearest person without looking. To do so, the player uses a wide array of violent gut-splattering firearms. The primary objective of Drake is to find those bastards who murdered your clan and shoot them in the face. All in told, the games' sales made its developers even richer than Bill Gates.Īn example of the good camera, sound collision detection, and sensical gameplay seen in Drake. Developer Idol FX planned on making a comic book and cartoon based on it, but the game was too good to waste time letting people read or watch its great story. One of the clan members, Drake, doesn't let death get in the way of destiny, and returns from the grave to avenge his clan, recover the carelessly lost item, and show them that living post-mortem may present a challenge to the nostrils or finding a partner, but should not have an effect on basic guard duties.ĭrake received universal acclaim, redefining the standard for great games alongside Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing, released the same week. In the game, the clan of the 99 Dragons has been wiped out and the artifact they were supposed to be guarding slips into the wrong hands, while they were all distracted by being murdered. Totally Radical: In one cutscene, Drake uses the phrase "out of this world" completely seriously not one trace of irony, parody, or humor anywhere (though it has humor if you count Narm).Drake of the 99 Dragons is a 2003 third-person shooter video game for the Xbox and Windows.

"The Undying Dragon can't protect Drake from his own stupidity."

He dies and is called out on it in the afterlife, then sent back down to Earth.

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