Amazingly, Drake manages to kill the cyborg, but feels remorse after licking it, because it was one of the new passion fruit-flavored killers.ĭrake's oral pleasure with the cyborg is interrupted, however, when he hears a noise outside of the Kwoon: intruders, who "must be out of this world" to get past the penthouse's dead security guards. As if by magic, one of these cyborgs emerges from a mini-pagoda and starts smacking Drake around the room, while our hero runs about, waving his arms and shooting at his enemy without looking. While twirling and playing with his guns in the Kwoon of the 99 Dragons, Drake sees a television commercial for an orange-flavored robot known as a Tang Cyborg, built by his rival Tang of the Wu-Tang Clan. There used to be one hundred dragons, but nobody knows what happened to one of them. Players are introduced to Drake, the ashen-faced assassin of a Neo Macau-based clan known as the 99 Dragons. erm, death force, or whatever.įor those without comedic tastes, the so-called experts at Wikipedia have an article about Drake of the 99 Dragons. There are also red "lost souls" which, like deep-fried Mars bars, do not replenish, but rather deplete Drake's life force.
Being dead, Drake's health is probably not that relevant, but his energy levels are primarily topped up by consuming the green souls of fallen opponents, provided they have not eaten something nasty recently. He also has the ability to slow down or freeze time so he can enjoy a spot of lunch mid-battle.
And what is more joyous than watching a player frantically attempting to get their controller to work, screaming in agony? In the PC version, however, a traditional aiming reticle is used which, while very nice and ethical, is nowhere near as fun.ĭrake has a number of special abilities, such as double-jumping, running along walls, smelling like rotting flesh, and randomly losing a limb. Instead, a very imprecise auto-targeting feature is implemented to help Drake aim and fire sporadically-accurately at the enemies. In the Xbox version, the joy of killing is further enhanced because an aiming reticle, a common staple of third-person shooters, is excluded. Like an Italian chef that has just has his veal cutlet returned by a customer, Drake uses the strategy of darting around and flailing his arms everywhere, then randomly shooting the nearest person without looking. To do so, the player uses a wide array of violent gut-splattering firearms. The primary objective of Drake is to find those bastards who murdered your clan and shoot them in the face. All in told, the games' sales made its developers even richer than Bill Gates.Īn example of the good camera, sound collision detection, and sensical gameplay seen in Drake. Developer Idol FX planned on making a comic book and cartoon based on it, but the game was too good to waste time letting people read or watch its great story. One of the clan members, Drake, doesn't let death get in the way of destiny, and returns from the grave to avenge his clan, recover the carelessly lost item, and show them that living post-mortem may present a challenge to the nostrils or finding a partner, but should not have an effect on basic guard duties.ĭrake received universal acclaim, redefining the standard for great games alongside Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing, released the same week. In the game, the clan of the 99 Dragons has been wiped out and the artifact they were supposed to be guarding slips into the wrong hands, while they were all distracted by being murdered. Drake of the 99 Dragons is a 2003 third-person shooter video game for the Xbox and Windows.