Pilot your Lander craft on treacherous missions to solve ancient mysteries in a unique solar flight adventure.
Atlanta, GA - May 28, 1998 - LanderΓäó is Psygnosis' first DVD (Digital Versatile Disk) game and will deliver MPEG 2 full-motion video sequences and Dolby Digital 5.1 channel music and 5.1 interactive sound effects to games players for the first time. Lander will be available in November 1998.
Defy the effects of gravity as you guide your ship over a multitude of planetary environments across the Solar System! Experience a unique solar flight adventure which sees you as player/pilot acquire the game-play skills necessary to maneuver your LanderΓäó craft through difficult obstacles and traps on both the planetary surfaces and in subterranean caverns and installations. Lander's game-play values send the adrenaline thumping and draw you ever further into this deep and complex game.
Each task will test your skills in a new way. For example, you will have to collect a pod and suspend it from your craft while defending yourself from attack from different types of weaponry, such as guns and missiles. As your craft is damaged, handling may start to be affected. Atmospheric conditions will vary as you move over and under the planetary landscapes. Other external forces such as tractor beams and wind tunnels will affect your piloting skill.
While you start to play Lander under the impression that you are undertaking a series of deep space industrial contracts you soon learn that there's more at stake than interplanetary trade and your missions suddenly become a great deal more dangerous.
The story begins in 3032, as you undertake a once in a lifetime journey across the solar system to seek your fortune. However, when you are hired to undertake a supposedly scientific expedition to an ancient Mayan site on Earth, you embark on a deeper and more mysterious adventure. An artifact is discovered. An extra-terrestrial object left by some unknown civilization. And the key to its' origin seems to lie among the outer reaches of the planets. Powerful corporations want the secret you are about to discover, millions are at stake and each faction will stop at nothing to crack the key to life!
The enormous number of treacherous planetary environments in Lander are all true depictions of land forms within the Earth's true solar system. All details will be as technically and physically accurate as possible and will include ice, fire and lava, water, cities, fortifications, jungles, caves, tunnels, slime, deserts, sandstorms and fog. Extensive use is made of real time lighting to illustrate the effects of the sun and moons across the planets and an eerie, futuristic sound-track increases the atmospheric mood.
A variety of different multiplayer game modes will be included, allowing up to 16 players over a network, serial link or modem.
General Information
Format: PC CD-ROM and PlayStation
Launch: PC CD-ROM ΓÇô 4th Quarter 1998
Genre: Solar Flight Adventure
Number Of Players: PC CD-ROM ΓÇô Up to 16, PlayStation ΓÇô 1 or 2
