Epsilon
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- Jul 11, 2009
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Thats because it is Turrican. They needed a game to tie in with the Universal Soldier movie, but didn't have a game. So they changed some graphics on Turrican and released it as Universal Soldier.Universal Soldiers
This came out on the Genesis and is "based" on the Universal Soldiers movie... except it's not and thank God for that.
This game is fucking insane. It's like they shoved as much crazy shit as possible into it because they couldn't figure out how to make a game of of the movie otherwise. Wasps that attack you from nests? You can turn into a spiked ball at will? Don't remember that shit.
The game is FULL of crazy power ups including tons of insane fucking weapons. Oh and when you get them the game TELLS YOU WHAT THEY ARE (although I can't make out what the fuck it's saying). Also, there's a button combination that allows you to just go ape shit and turns the screen into chaos.
Oh and the soundtrack? Awesome.
That looks like a Turrican clone (Amiga/C64).
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There is also a good (and free) remake available here.
And Wiz 'n Liz was ported to the Mega Drive(Genesis) from Amiga. Psygnosis was primarily an Amiga publisher for a long time. The Amiga versions of these games are by far the superior ones.