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GunValkyrie

Developer(s)	Smilebit
Publisher(s)	Sega
Release date(s)	USA: March 30, 2002
Genre	Third-person shooter
Mode(s)	Single Player
Rating(s)	ESRB: Teen (T)
Platform(s)	Microsoft Xbox
Media	DVD-ROM

GunValkyrie is a third-person shooter game that was developed by Smilebit and published by Sega for the Microsoft Xbox. The game's story takes place in an alternate reality where Halley's Comet brought new technology to the planet Earth, that allowed people to travel through space and colonize other planets. A video game developer is a software developer (a business or an individual) that creates video or computer games. ... Smilebit is a Japanese computer and video game developer founded in 2000. ... Video game publishers are companies that publish video games that they have either developed internally or have had developed by a video game developer. ... This article is about the video game company. ... March 30 is the 89th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (90th in Leap years). ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This is listing of computer and video game genres with a brief description and examples from each genre. ... A third-person shooter is a genre of 3D video games where the camera view is outside and thought of as usually being behind the main player character, its name chosen for the number of third-person video games whose gameplay is derivative of first-person shooters. ... In computer games and video games, single-player refers to the variant of a particular game where input from only one player is expected throughout the course of the gaming session. ... The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) is a self-regulatory organization that applies and enforces ratings, advertising guidelines, and online privacy principles for computer and video games in the United States. ... Games, like most other forms of media, may be categorized into genres based on gameplay, atmosphere, and various other factors. ... Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT) headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA, was founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. ... The Xbox is Microsofts game console, released on November 15, 2001. ... DVD is an optical disc storage media format that is used for playback of movies with high video and sound quality and for storing data. ... A third-person shooter is a genre of 3D video games where the camera view is outside and thought of as usually being behind the main player character, its name chosen for the number of third-person video games whose gameplay is derivative of first-person shooters. ... Smilebit is a Japanese computer and video game developer founded in 2000. ... This article is about the video game company. ... Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT) headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA, was founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. ... The Xbox is Microsofts game console, released on November 15, 2001. ... Comet Halley as taken with the Halley Multicolor Camera on the ESA Giotto mission. ... Earth, also known as the Earth, Terra, and (mostly in the 19th century) Tellus, is the third planet outward from the Sun. ...

The story's two protaganists are Kelly O'Lenmey and Saburouta Mishima and the story takes place on the planet of Tir na Nog and find the player facing off thousands of alien creatures that resemble giant insects, similar to those found in the movie Starship Troopers. Orders Subclass Apterygota Symphypleona - globular springtails Subclass Archaeognatha (jumping bristletails) Subclass Dicondylia Monura - extinct Thysanura (common bristletails) Subclass Pterygota Diaphanopteroidea - extinct Palaeodictyoptera - extinct Megasecoptera - extinct Archodonata - extinct Ephemeroptera (mayflies) Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) Infraclass Neoptera Blattodea (cockroaches) Mantodea (mantids) Isoptera (termites) Zoraptera Grylloblattodea Dermaptera (earwigs) Plecoptera (stoneflies) Orthoptera (grasshoppers, crickets... Starship Troopers cover Starship Troopers is a science fiction novel by Robert Heinlein first published in 1959. ...

The game is widely held to be of a high difficulty

External links

IGN.com GunValkyrie Review
Sega's GunValkyrie site
Smilebit's Gunvalkyrie site (Japanese Only)

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Gunvalkyrie - GameCritics.com (1518 words)
	While Gunvalkyrie allows full 3D movement, its style is most reminiscent of rail shooters such as Panzer Dragoon and Star Fox; each level consists of a linear mission (which is usually "destroy all enemies!"), and the levels—though often quite large and occasionally very open—are deliberately crafted to sustain the games feverish pace.
	Gunvalkyrie challenges this perception by eschewing the conventions of its genre with a complex, unorthodox control scheme that radically shapes the direction of the game.
	Gunvalkyrie shows that complexity can be both approachable and compelling, and that gamers are far from seeing the limits of its time-tested genre.

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