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After years of war, Earth’s civilizations have been all but destroyed. Power has been consolidated within a single, dark empire. With humanity at war and on the brink of extinction, it’s up to you and your dragon to take to the skies and assist in the rebellion. On the back of your flying friend, you’ll become part of intense chases and battles with powerful enemies. In order to defeat the evil empire, you must master multiple weapons, dragon powers, and advanced attacks. The game features unlockable subquests, that allow you to play the game from the enemy’s perspective, and a branching story line with unique encounters.
PRODUCT DETAILS
UPC:010086640236
Condition:Used
Genre:Action & Adventure
Platform:Microsoft Xbox
Region:NTSC (N. America)
ESRB:Teen
SKU:XBOX_PANZER_DRAGOON_ORTA
———This game is fully cleaned, tested & working. Includes the Disc/Cartridge Only. May have some minor scratches/scuffs.This description was last updated on October 28th, 2020.
The rail shooter has gone the way of the dodo, now that most shooters allow the player to move around at will as in Doom or Full Spectrum Warrior. However, the folks atPanzer Dragoon Orta has made the move from Sega onto the Xbox, and it’s gameplay should please most fans. Your dragon can alter between three main modes; heavy mode gives you more firepower but less manoeuvring capabilities, Glide mode allows for better movement while normal mode is a compromise between the two. You’ll have an opportunity to upgrade with powerups as the game proceeds, giving you most blasting power. However, you can only upgrade one of these modes, so you’ll have to choose wisely.The player takes on the role of Orta, a prisoner all her life, who escapes after her jail is attacked by a troop of dragonmares. Riding on top of a dragon-like beast, she goes in search of answers.The game takes you through several different worlds, beautiful in both conception and design. I was particularly taken with the organic nature of the second level, as well as the jump into TRON-like computer environment at the fourth. Enemy design is unique and occasionally surreal,Some splendid cut-scenes break up the game and they’re fairly entertaining, including an episode where the character joins a desert being’s harem, though briefly.Completing the game doesn’t take too long, however, and you should be able to finish in about two hours. There are harder modes available for you to tackle, and if you want to go back to t.
When a new console is launched, the manufacturer usually releases a handful of games to show off the system and appeal to consumers. Over time, as developers learn the console, bigger and flashier games appear, leaving the launch games in the dust of the clearance bin. Once in a while, though, there’s a diamond in the rough … in the case of the underrated Sega Saturn, it was a stylish shooting game named “Panzer Dragoon,” developed by an in-house team known as Team Andromeda.Its popularity (among the Saturn’s limited audience), led to a prequel game–“Panzer Dragoon Zwei”– and even a lauded RPG-style adventure in the same universe–“Panzer Dragoon Saga.” However, both games were released in the waning days of the system, so few people really got to see how the series progressed. Eventually, the Saturn was discontinued and Team Andromeda went their separate ways. Fortunately, it would appear that some of those programmers wound up in Smilebit, one of Sega’s new development houses, as they have turned out a worthy successor of the “Panzer Dragoon” title, exclusively for Microsoft’s powerful XBox console.For the fourth title in the series, Smilebit returned to the format of the first two games, that of a linear shoot-em-up. The player, in the guise of a mysterious young girl named Orta, rides a mighty dragon through a series of elaborate levels on a generally pre-set course (or, to use a common gaming term, “on rails”). Armed with a rapid-fire pistol and the dragon’s o.
Don’t stop reading yet. Comparisons are futile because PDO is what Halo and Splinter Cell are not. PDO is an on-rails shooter. Asking “which is better” is like asking which is better out of FIFA Soccer 2003 and NHL 2003. It all comes down to waht style of game you’d rather play. (For my vote, PDO)Anyway. PDO.Great graphics, complete with showing-off-for-the-hell-of-it water effects. Sound is… different. Remember, Panzer Dragoon is trying to be its own world. This own world has its own style of music (as opposed to “cheesy 90 videogame” as someone decided) and its own language, Panzerese. (No, it’s not Japanese. The Japanese people playing this game will get as much out of the commentary as you do. Infact, less, seeing as Panzerese is made chiefly of parts of ancient Greek and Latin)Gameplay… wow. This is a difficult game. Any XBoxers expecting a Smilebit game to be easy (after JSRF) can think again. It does get a bit easier once you master what dragon you should use when, though. At any rate, this is where it loses half a star for me . Not because of the main game difficulty, which I think is perfectly placed (and I suck at these kinds of games normally), but because of the Pandora’s Box subgames. GUH. Some of these things appear to be programmed specifically to frustrate. Short, yet almost impossible. So, you find yourself replaying the same 30 seconds of gameplay. Over. And over. And OVER.As for longevity. Well. Pandora’s Box is there to come back to even once you beat.
While Sega’s Panzer Dragoon franchise is beloved among gamers who have played the earlier games in the series, it’s always been confined to the relatively small audience that actually puchased a Sega Saturn. Finally, the rest of the world can see what those who’ve experienced the series have been raving about, with Panzer Dragoon Orta, the series’ first installment on a non-Sega console. While Panzer Dragoon Saga brought the series into the RPG genre, PDO returns to the shooter-on-rails genre where the series began.While that might initially scare off some gamers, don’t be fooled – though PDO’s confined to “rails”, the degree of freedom the gamer feels, and the sheer sense of scale and majesty that a fixed camera offers the developers makes PDO one of the grandest, most impressive xbox games available to date. Easily more beautiful than any other game on any system available, PDO’s graphics live up to the hype. Huge, detailed worlds are filled with huge, detailed enemies, and the sheer size of some of the things in this game, from an airship easily ten thousand times the size of Orta (the girl you control), to a squadron of “Dragonmares”, similar to Orta’s steed, but pure evil, the environments in PDO have to be experienced to be believed.In terms of gameplay, it’s substantially more complex than either the previous installments of the series, and even more complex than the sum of the individual parts. Orta can shoot her gun, or lock her dragon onto a number of enemies, and h.
Even if this game had average graphics, I would still give it 5 stars. The gaming is just that good – perfectly balanced to give you an adrenaline rush without frustrating you in an annoying way.However, the graphics are not average, the graphics are stupendous, breathtaking and any other superlative you can think of. Wow this game is beautiful. It would be fun to just sit and watch this kind of imagery – to interactively fly through is really giddy. Halo and Splinter Cell pale compared to Panzer Dragoon.As far as longevity is concerned, I’m not sure who these reviewers are who claim they went through the game in 3 hours. Maybe they have superhuman gaming abiiities. I’ve been playing for 5 now, and have only completed 3 of the main stages. This fourth is much harder, and will certainly take a while. I’d be surprised if I finish the game in less than 20. After that, I will have all of the original Panzer Dragoon open to me, as well as the challenge of opening up more missions by getting high grades in the levels. So I, an above-average player, will be at this for many months to come.All in all, you cannot do better than this game. Well worth double what it costs. By far my favourite game.
panzer dragon orta was by far one of the most gorgeous video games i have ever played an my life the graphics are ahead of its time gameplay is perfect stoyline good the ony thing i heated was the subtitles and the difficulty of the game if you loved the sega saturn verison you will loved the xbox verison
A simple yet fun game.Having only played the OXM demo, I can’t comment on the storyline or charactors at all. (sigh) However, from what I’ve seen and played, this is a very good game.Based on a "rail" system, this game shines not in it’s innovation, but it’s mastery of a standing gameplay system. I haven’t even heard of this games predecessors, so I’m going to compare the gameplay to Starfox. however, unlike many games of this type, Orta gives you more depth with a 360 degree area of fire. This means that you not only have to worry about enemies coming at you from the front, but from the sides and rear to.The rail system that this game uses means that while this game can be labled as a Flight Sim, there is very little actual "flying" done. You only have a small area on the screen in which to maneuver your dragon, but the designers have taken this into account, and there is almost no need to worry about where you’re exactly steering.I’m glad to see that the developers of this game choose to perfect an existing system, rather than try to reinvent the game. The controls are simple, effective, and come very naturally. The weapons are balanced, so there is no single weapons spamming. The only possile downfall this game might have would be if SEGA drops the ball of plot and charator development. Assuming they don’t, however, Orta stands as a very solid game that should be in any Xbox owner’s inventory.
I rated this game 5 stars despite 2 major cons: (1) I beat this game after owning it for less than three hours; (2) the story mode makes about as much sense as The Red Wheelbarrow. The 10 short missions in this game have provided me with hours of fun, although I do not understand the idea behind any of them. For example, there is a mission where you fly the dragon across the back of a gigantic sawbug-like animal who has forests and villages on him. The enemies you shoot down are extremely weird. I would expect to see the aliens from Halo walking around my town before those crazy fools. Also, one of the bosses appears to be a giant forest that floats around in the water and shoots “cells” at you when bulbs suspended from his body burst. These unusual levels, wacky enemies, and indescribable bosses are nonetheless comprised of the best graphics I have seen. Maybe the oddities of Panzer would have bothered me less if it were intentionally funny. Nonetheless, Panzer Dragoon Orta is an absolutely beautiful game, and has good replay value. However, don’t expect to think the story will make sense unless you dig that “My heart is heavy because I envy your honor.” garbage. Even though the story was so bad, I watched all of the cutscenes and the credits just because I liked the pictures so much. If you own an xbox, buy this game because shooting things down is fun, even if you have no clue what the enemies are.
I agree with pretty much everything the first reviewer, Baker, mentioned. I played this when it came out and just recently started playing since it’s 360 compatible and have had a hard time finding a game I like, so I quit the searching and am enjoying Panzer Dragoon Orta. Years later, this title still holds up, I don’t think they’ve made an equal to this game concept, art, control and scheme wise, but if anybody has any recommendations to compare this to, say it now or forever hold your peace.
I used to play panzer dragoon for the sega Saturn and getting this game was a must for nostalgia. The game is very fun and has quite a number of mode to play it on. The game play is fun and the story is pretty good. Can’t believe there is a bunch of stuff to unlock. I love this game and it does have decent replay value