Lander is an action shooter game developed in-house at the Manchester office of Psygnosis for Microsoft Windows. It was released in Spring 1999 and published under the Psygnosis label shortly before the Manchester office was closed and the Psygnosis label was fully absorbed into Sony. Lander was inspired by the classic game Thrust (and to a lesser extent Lunar Lander), and featured similar gameplay of controlling a ship with realistic thrust and ...
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Lander is an action shooter game developed in-house at the Manchester office of Psygnosis for Microsoft Windows. It was released in Spring 1999 and published under the Psygnosis label shortly before the Manchester office was closed and the Psygnosis label was fully absorbed into Sony. Lander was inspired by the classic game Thrust (and to a lesser extent Lunar Lander), and featured similar gameplay of controlling a ship with realistic thrust and inertia, but with a new 3D game environment.
The player takes on the role of a mercenary lander pilot, looking to make his fortune. On each planet the player is able to select from a list of jobs offered by various companies.
The game features a series of missions in which the player must manoeuvre their ship, controlled by adjusting the three axis of rotation and a thrust button, over planet's surfaces and into winding mine shafts. Each mine contains a pod which must be collected using the ship's tractor beam, and which then must be brought...
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