Thousands of years ago man created genetically altered beings called bio-weapons. Things didn't go as planned and the creatures turned on their masters almost eliminating the human race completely and leaving only a few tribes.
One of the tribes known as the "Imperials" discovered an ancient tower which housed the old weapons of the past. They used the weapons to hunt and destroy the dangerous creatures roaming on the Earth. Unfortunately they discovered the true use of the tower which is the most powerful weapon even created and plan on becoming the new rulers of the Earth!
You are a hunter and one day as you were out hunting with your fellow hunters in the Great Plains, you notice an Imperial Battlecruiser overhead. While you watch it, a Burrower jumps out of the ground and attacks one of the others. You instantly begin to chase after it into an area where you have never gone before.
You find yourself in an abandoned warehouse startled by two dragons fighting right overhead of you. The rider of the blue dragon is fatally wounded by a laser blast and lands next to you. He reaches out for your hand as he dies and transfers his mind to yours so that you become one with the Sky Rider. His dying words to you are, "Don't... let the Dark Dragon return to the tower... if that happends, the horror of the Ancient Time..." He then falls to the ground and his dragon lets out a cry for his master. You then look at the dragon and he looks back at you. You realize the fate of the world relies in your hands as you pick up the Sky Rider's weapon and get on the armored blue dragon.
This is where you take over with the control pad and fly the blue dragon to victory! You will confront many enemies along your path such as giant sandworms, man sized wasps, lethal flying battleships and many other air and terrain beasts.
Your weapon is a powerful one from the Ancient Time which can fire normally
and also has a homing laser. The homing laser is activated by holding down
the fire button and will lock on up to eight targets while the button is held
down. Once your targets are locked on, you can fire a large blue laser blast
to destroy your enemies! The homing laser works great for destroying your
enemies and I highly recommend its use. It is especially useful in levels
such as the 4th where you can almost destroy your enemies before they can even
see you.
Each level ends with a boss type of creature. When it appears, an energy
bar for the creature will also appear in the top left corner of the screen.
This is really helpful for knowing how much longer you will need to battle
with the boss creature. Once the boss is killed, your shooting for the level
is evaluated and you move on to the next level.
Panzer Dragoon is a really cool shoot 'em up style game. I really enjoyed
the music and style of the graphics and hope to kill the Dark Dragon one of
these days. I really appreciated the homing laser feature, since my aim is
not that great and this really helps bring up my shooting ratio, and highly
recommend this game to everybody that enjoys shooting.
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