Expendable (PC)

Released in 2000, Expendable is a derivative but wholly enjoyable arcade style shoot-em up with colourful and stimulating 3daccellerated graphics and big explosions by the bucketload. The game has you playing as a nameless supersoldier against a heavily mechanised alien race, blowing away all and sundry with lasers, plasma cannons, rocket launchers, machineguns and the like, the levels ranging from post-apocalyptic urban wastelands, vast spacecraft and barren alien planets, the gameplay being a simple case of rotate, strafe and fire, with the odd pseudo-puzzle elements requiring you to blow up doors and obstacles, manipulate switches and rescue your fellow ...  Read the complete review

Developed by Rage software in 2000, and now available on the "Sold Out" label, Expendable is a timed third person platformy shoot-em-up set in a dark and special effects heavy future. An old game, it will run on almost any PC around today, no matter how modest the specs. The game is incredibly lacking in story, not that thats in the least bit important in a brainless game of this nature, but suffice to say that you play a heavily armed marine with almost superhuman ability to kill. Your mission is ultimately to progress to the next level, taking out hordes upon hordes of aliens, blowing up spacecrafts, rescuing hostages, pushing switches and ...  Read the complete review