Dark Arena
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Dark Arena is an first-person shooter
video game for the Game Boy Advance
. It was the first FPS game announced for the Game Boy Advance, but it was the fourth released.
A training facility for soldiers was built on a small, isolated island. Genetic splicing was performed to create Genetically Engineered Organisms (GEOs), and when the security failsafes failed, the GEOs quickly took over the base. Then, Angelina Bradshaw (the main character) and her special operations team went to eradicate the threat, but they were pushed back into the center of the base, and Angelina is the only one left alive. She then knows that she has to reach a hangar on the outskirts of the island before a nuclear bomb goes off as a last resort to destroy the creatures.
The game's ending depends on the difficulty set by the player. If the player plays on the Easy difficulty, Angelina dies in the hangar (The "Bad Ending"). If the player uses Medium, she barely escapes (The Medium Ending). Completing the game on Hard will have her escape with ease (The Good Ending).
and uninspired level design, but was also praised for having many nice touches often not included in pseudo-3D FPS, such as a sniper rifle with zoom functions and a guided missile. Many people regarded it as a Doom clone, but many fans of Dark Arena state that it had many realistic touches, such as a small diner, soldiers' barracks, and a swimming pool.
First-person shooter
First-person shooter is a video game genre that centers the gameplay on gun and projectile weapon-based combat through first-person perspective; i.e., the player experiences the action through the eyes of a protagonist. Generally speaking, the first-person shooter shares common traits with other...
video game for the Game Boy Advance
Game Boy Advance
The is a 32-bit handheld video game console developed, manufactured, and marketed by Nintendo. It is the successor to the Game Boy Color. It was released in Japan on March 21, 2001; in North America on June 11, 2001; in Australia and Europe on June 22, 2001; and in the People's Republic of China...
. It was the first FPS game announced for the Game Boy Advance, but it was the fourth released.
Story
The game's ending depends on the difficulty set by the player. If the player plays on the Easy difficulty, Angelina dies in the hangar (The "Bad Ending"). If the player uses Medium, she barely escapes (The Medium Ending). Completing the game on Hard will have her escape with ease (The Good Ending).
Reception
Dark Arena was often panned by critics primarily due to poor enemy AIArtificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it. AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents" where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its...
and uninspired level design, but was also praised for having many nice touches often not included in pseudo-3D FPS, such as a sniper rifle with zoom functions and a guided missile. Many people regarded it as a Doom clone, but many fans of Dark Arena state that it had many realistic touches, such as a small diner, soldiers' barracks, and a swimming pool.