Software:Stellar 7: Draxon's Revenge

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Stellar 7: Draxon’s Revenge
3DO Stellar 7 - Draxon's Revenge cover art.jpg
Developer(s)Dynamix
Publisher(s)Dynamix
Platform(s)3DO
Release
Genre(s)First-person shooter[2]
Mode(s)Single-player

Stellar 7: Draxon's Revenge is a 1993 video game developed and published by Dynamix for the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer.[3]

The game's introduction was read by actor Michael Dorn, who was famous at this time for playing a Klingon crewman Worf on the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation.[4]

Plot

The player is the driver of a "super-tank" called Raven. Raven is armed with powerful weapons and an anti-gravity device that allows it to move fast. The player must defeat the evil hordes of Gir Draxon, overlord of the Arcturan Empire, who aims to enslave Earth and its inhabitants.[3]

Reception

Reception
Review scores
PublicationScore
Famitsu21/40[1]
GamePro4.625/5[5]
Entertainment WeeklyC-[4]

GamePro was positive to the game, commending its gameplay and action.[5]

Joe Blenkle from The Orangevale News praised the gameplay and the graphics.[6]

Entertainment Weekly noted an impressive opening narration, music, and graphics, but found that the controls were hard to use when fighting aliens.[4]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Famitsu staff (April 29, 1994). "新作ゲームクロスレビュー" (in ja). Weekly Famicom Tsūshin (ASCII Corporation) (280): 76. 
  2. Embery, Ken (1993). "Stellar 7: Draxon's Revenge". p. 51. https://archive.org/details/InterAction_Magazine_Vol._VI_Number_3_Holiday_1993_1993_Sierra_On-Line_US/page/n49/mode/2up. Retrieved December 28, 2021. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Schiffman, William (September 2, 1994). "Video Game Review: Stellar 7: Draxon's Revenge;For 3DO CD, from Dynamix". Archived from the original on December 26, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20211226193845/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-09-02-ls-33936-story.html. Retrieved December 28, 2021. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 EW Staff (January 14, 1994). "Stellar 7: Draxon's Revenge". Archived from the original on November 20, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20151120045154/https://ew.com/article/1994/01/14/stellar-7-draxons-revenge/. Retrieved December 28, 2021. 
  5. 5.0 5.1 "Stellar 7: Draxon's Revenge Review". February 1994. p. 122. https://archive.org/details/GamePro_Issue_055_February_1994/page/n123/mode/2up. Retrieved December 28, 2021. 
  6. Blenkle, Joe (July 5, 1995). "Steller 7, for 3DO is better than early Sega CD version". p. 8. Archived from the original on December 26, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20211226194425/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91183021/the-orangevale-news/. Retrieved December 28, 2021.