Giants: Citizen Kabuto
Giants: Citizen Kabuto is a video game that consists of 0 releases
Take control of one of three radically different factions and lay waste to your enemies with advanced technology, powerful magic, or raw brute strength.
Overview
Giants: Citizen Kabuto is a third-person shooter with a few RTS elements thrown in. You play as the weapon-toting Meccaryns, a magic-wielding Reaper, and the gigantic Kabuto in turn. The game takes place on various islands on an unnamed alien world, populated by several creatures. The cattle-like Vimps act like resources for basebuilding. Humanoid Smarties act like builders. The world has various enemies scattered around. The game consists of episodes, and you play all of the episodes for each character before moving onto the next.
- The Meccaryns episode play as a squad-based shooter, with some base building at the end.
- The Reaper episode is more of an action-adventure with racing elements
The mysterious planet landscape - As for Kabuto... You get to be a giant.
The game also has a multiplayer mode.
The game is very humorous, with some of the same sense of humor as the MDKgames.
Characters
Meccaryns
Sea Reapers
Kabuto
Kabuto
This giant is very different from the other characters, as you have few weapons besides your body. But being a gigantic beast, that is one good weapon. In the beginning you must eat Smarties to grow. Once full size has been achieved; Kabuto can stomp, elbow drop, and body slam his way through his portion of the game. Kabuto can eat enemies and Vimps to replenish health. Kabuto can also make offspring, using them as troops.
Story overview
A strong story is present throughout the single player campaign portion of Giants: Citizen Kabuto.
It opens with Baz and Tel, two meccaryns, on their way to the lovely planet Majorca with the hope of RnR. However the pair crash their space craft on a strange island due to a mis-communication whilst Baz was attempting to fix the space craft during it's flight, or something like that. Baz falls off the side of the ship and unfortunately for him, Tel flys off, without the knowledge that Baz is no longer abroad. Baz makes his way over the island to recover his jetpack which has been retrieved by a local inhabitant of the island, known as a smartie. The smartie returns the jet pack to Baz after Baz has saved the smarties smartie friends from falling off a cliff, which up till this point the smartie had been throwing rocks at, as he assumed they were wax models (?.) The smartie then demonstrates knowledge of where Tel has crashed the space ship, and the pair go to recue Tel as he lingers on the lip of the now destroyed craft, over the edge of a cliff. The smartie (now known as Timmy) requests to be reunited with his parents.
When Timmy is reunited with his parents, Timmys obnoxious father requests that Tel and Baz retrieve some Vimp meat for him in exchange for information on the whereabouts of a third meccaryn, Reg. Upon retrieving the requested meat the father suddenly comes to the realisation that he has left his wife in the hands of the enemy, the reapers. Baz and Tel retrive the missing misses and she reveals the whereabouts of Reg to Tel and Baz.. Timmys mother and Reg had been involved in a love affair. Baz and Tel request the aid of Timmys grandfather to get to the location of Reg. At this point Timmy has gotten himself captured by the Reapers again.
Tel and Baz arrive on a third island with the intention of saving Reg from the Reapers, who have captured him. The pair rescue Reg, Reg receives a beating from Timmys grandfather as he screams "Thats was me daughter ya dirty wee bastard." He also informs the now threesome that they will be required to rescue Timmy. They assume he has been taken to prison so the three meccaryns blow it up and discover via Timmys old cellmate that Timmy has been moved. The three meccs and TImmys grandfather travel to a forth island with the ultimate goal of saving Timmy.
They arrive and Timmy has been sacrificed to Kabuto, much to the dismay of the meccs, and a new character: The Reaper princess, whom does not believe in the ways of her fellow reapers. The meccs call for backup from their home planet, Gordon and Bennet arrive soon after. All the meccs are captured by the Reapers, although freed later via the princess who receives a name. Daphne.
Daphne decides she needs to defeat the Queen by herself at this point, and goes about retrieving a crystal which she retrieves by going through a series of jet ski races to gain access to the palace. The queen releases Kabuto upon the smartie villages, but Daphne herself manages to transform into a Kabuto, with the hope of taking on the original Kabuto and stopping him from causing so much havoc.
At this point the game kind of skips on the story and just shows Daphne as she gets stronger as a Kabuto. For the last boss fight you assume the role of Baz again and take down the big Kabuto by shooting him in the bollocks. Everyone is happy, roll credits.
Kabuto
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Dec. 6, 2000
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