Ultratron

Overview

Ultratron is a dual-joystick shooter developed by Puppy Games and later ported to consoles by Curve Digital. The last humans have been slain by a band of killer robots, the mission is to avenge the human race, and destroy the four bots of the apocalypse - Ieiunitas, Bellum, Lues and Letum! The player can upgrade their battletdroid and buy cute and deadly pets to aid them on their quest to deliver vengeance to the murderous robots.

Gameplay

The game takes place on single screen arenas and is broken into rounds, once a round begins enemies spawn into the arena and the player must eliminate all enemies to end the round. The player will receive points for eliminating enemies, enemies also drop coins that need to be picked up, coins act as the upgrading currency. Once the round is over the player will be taken to an upgrade screen and the player can choose to add a variety of different upgrades that will help in the ensuing rounds.

Robot pets can also be purchased as an upgrade, these pets will provide support during the round. If a pet is struck by an enemy it will require being picked up to become active again, the player must simply run over to it and it will begin to follow again.

As the rounds go on there will be an increased variety of enemies that have an assortment of different characteristics, these range from enemies that only travel towards you, to enemies that shoot their own projectiles, to even more menacing abilities. After a series of rounds the player will fight one of the four bots of the apocalypse. In order to defeat the boss the player must shoot weak points on the boss until they are destroyed eventually leading to the bosses demise.

System Requirements

PC:

• • OS: Windows XP
  • Processor: 1GHz
  • Memory: 512 MB RAM
  • Graphics: OpenGL1.5 capable graphics card
  • Hard Drive: 100 MB HD space

Mac:

• • OS: OSX 10.5.8
  • Processor: 1GHz Intel
  • Memory: 512 MB RAM
  • Graphics: OpenGL1.5 capable graphics card
  • Hard Drive: 100 MB HD space

Linux:

• • Processor: 1GHz
  • Memory: 512 MB RAM
  • Graphics: OpenGL1.5 capable graphics card
  • Hard Drive: 100 MB HD space