Plot
Earth is under attack by evil aliens called "Tasen". It's up to the cyborg Iji to save the remaining people of the planet. She is guided by her brother Dan through loudspeakers that are placed throughout the levels. Dan convices Iji to call on an alien taskforce consisting of a different alien race, the Komato, to help Iji wipe out the Tasen. But the Komato are not the salvation that Dan and Iji thought they were. In actuality they, also, try to destroy the Earth and all its inhabitants, because their sworn enemies the Tasen are there - fleeing from the ruthless Komato.
Gameplay
The combat in Iji is real time, each enemy has a Nano-shield that can be taken down a number of ways before the actual enemy can be defeated, once the enemy is defeated Iji can assimilate the remnants of their nanoshield to gain experience.
Iji can access 8 basic weapons unlocked through skill points and these weapons can be combined to create new more powerful weapons provided that Iji's crack stat is high enough.
e.g. combining the Shotgun and Machine gun will give you the Buster gun, a more powerful automatic shotgun which uses machinegun ammo.
Influences
Daniel Remar, creator of Iji, has admitted that System Shock 2 was a major influence, despite the game being almost nothing like System Shock 2.
The game also has echoes of Castlevania and Metroid and utilizes some basic cover mechanics from games like kill.switch
Soundtrack
The music for Iji was done by Chris Geehan and Dan Byrne McCullough with the exception of Further by VNV Nation.
The music for Iji also had some contributions from Tom Mauritzon and Daniel Remar.
1. Make Your Mind Up
Chris Geehan & Dan Byrne McCullough
2. Kinda Green
Chris Geehan & Dan Byrne McCullough
3. 3 Cans Later
Chris Geehan & Dan Byrne McCullough
4. Welcome to the Party, Pal
Chris Geehan & Dan Byrne McCullough
5. For Stronger Bones
Chris Geehan & Dan Byrne McCullough
6. Seven Four
Chris Geehan & Dan Byrne McCullough
7. Face to Face
Tom Mauritzon
8. Tor
Chris Geehan & Dan Byrne McCullough
9. Further
Composed by VNV Nation
Covered and performed by LifeForce
Edited for length by Daniel Remar
10. Main menu - Men And You
Chris Geehan
11. Level Clear
Chris Geehan & Dan Byrne McCullough
12. Dark Stroke
Chris Geehan & Dan Byrne McCullough
13. Lightstroke - Light Stroke
Chris Geehan & Dan Byrne McCullough
14. All That Can Wait
Chris Geehan & Dan Byrne McCullough
15. Hade Shade
Chris Geehan & Dan Byrne McCullough
16. Glass Soldier
Chris Geehan & Dan Byrne McCullough
17. Asha
Chris Geehan & Dan Byrne McCullough
18. Game over
Chris Geehan & Dan Byrne McCullough
19. Hero (Wretched8 Remix)
Composed by Machinae Supremacy
Covered by Captain Goodnight
20. Doom
Chris Geehan & Daniel Remar
21. ½ fabrikat
Internal SFX sequence player by Daniel Remar
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