Devastation 2: Repatriation

Devastation 2: Repatriation is a 3D arcade shoot ’em up in which you pilot the Horus ship through 12 futuristic levels, fighting an alien invasion inside the intergalactic web. The Byterrians, digitized aliens embedded in the web’s firewalls, are spreading a virus through the world’s data systems. Destroy them and their structural data nuclei to gather power cores, which fuel the Horus’s security software and let you upgrade its weapons, armor and defenses.

Story

In the year 2020, 32 years after the aliens were thought to have been annihilated, a corrupted broadcast appears on people’s devices. Its message warns that the aliens are inside the network and have taken control of the world’s data. A worm virus then spreads from server to server, infecting the intergalactic web.

A security program is built around the Horus ship and can be accessed through backup drives, but it needs a constant energy supply. The ship enters the web through damaged back doors, where it encounters Byterrians burrowed into structural firewalls. The aliens have hard-coded the Byterrians to be volatile, and reaching their leader requires annihilating them. As the Horus destroys them and gathers power cores, you work to stop the species from injecting a cybernetic virus into the globe’s highest-security data structure.

Weapons and upgrades

You can equip the ship with six types of missiles and bombs, 11 weapon combinations, weapon mods and customizable boosters. You can also choose from 10 ship color schemes. Upgrade and repair the ship’s defenses, and spend gathered power cores on its weapons, armor and enhancements.

Across 12 dynamic levels, you face more than 20 types of Byterrian and more than 10 heavy bosses. Hyper Speed lets you blast through enemies, while a single massive explosion can take out large waves. Defeating enemies quickly earns in-game achievements and builds a score multiplier.

Game modes

The game has four difficulty settings. Trainee gives you three continues, slower-moving and slower-firing enemies, low bullet velocity and very frequent power-ups. Mayhem has two continues, standard enemy movement and firing, and frequent power-ups. Chaos gives you one continue, faster and more frequent enemy attacks, high bullet velocity and less frequent power-ups. Nightmare has no continues, very fast enemies, very frequent firing, extreme bullet velocity and rare power-ups.

There are also four game styles:

• Arcade: Play a 12-level campaign with three lives and shields. Each level ends with a boss, and you can upgrade your inventory to build the ship’s artillery and defenses.
• Hardcore: Play the 12-level, boss-ending campaign with three lives and no shield, upgrading your inventory to build the ship’s artillery and defenses.
• Survival: Face an endless series of waves, with weapons unlocking as you progress and enemies becoming more difficult with each wave and rank. Set custom settings before play.
• One life: Play the 12-level, boss-ending campaign with a shield but no extra lives, upgrading your inventory to build the ship’s artillery and defenses.