PSX Longplay [523] Colony Wars III: Red Sun

Played by: MadMatty Colony Wars III: Red Sun released on Playstation in the year 2000 by Psygnosis. By now I have recorded all three games and in hindsight i think i should have played the PAL versions as they are European original games and support a higher resolution. The extra framerate of the ntsc release doesn't add much. The game uses the 512x hires mode and uses mixed resolution so you may want to aspect correct the video to 16:9 in your player to view gameplay with TV aspect. From Wiki "The game is set around the time frame of Vengeance. A miner in the Dendray system named Alexander Lyron Valdemar experiences strange dreams about an alien race called the Sha'Har and a mysterious ship called the Red Sun. A man known as the General forces him to get on the case of investigating the Red Sun and how it is tied to the survival of the galaxy." The game takes place on the outer rim around the same time as the previous Vengeance game. This game does not utilise a branching story arc depending on your actions. Instead you get a choice of missions where you can take on jobs for credits and kill score to improve your rating unlocking new weapons and ships for you to buy. You could skip these and just do story missions, but i am sure they would be difficult if you could not afford upgrades. I do not show off many of the weapons and don't by any means use an optimal setup as I mostly just stick to what works. No doubt there are other strategies that are better than mine. Also new to the game is multiple hit points on large ships so you can disable a ships weapons making it less of a threat. However these ships are not nearly as threatening as the original two games which shot lasers out of every orifice and even through it self in order to shoot you. Unless you are in line of site with an enemy gun you are likely safe. Due to a bug with NTSC version of the game, the anims were not centred going into overscan area cutting the bottom of the anims off. This was probably an over site when converting from the pal original. So I have ripped the anims off the disc and inserted manually so they are centred and not chopped. Hopefully i have not made any mistakes in this process, but it is possible. Also, I should note that I also ripped the PAL version anims and they are slightly better in image quality. I have replaced the Intro with the pal version as it is much sharper than the ntsc version. Other anims are not as noticeable so I have left them as is. Mission Timestamps. * = Story related mission. 00:00:00 Titles ---Peripolis Orbit----- 00:05:50 Escort Duty 00:14:50 Valdemar * 00:22:10 Covert Insertion 00:27:58 Rebel Smugglers 00:34:20 Insult and Injury 00:39:58 Convoy * 00:48:05 Retrieval * ---Magenta Station----- 00:57:15 Convoy 01:09:48 Retrieval 01:17:10 Investigation 01:22:21 Defence * 01:27:42 Hunting 01:35:20 Surgical Strike 01:43:00 Thunderbowl 01:46:58 Gang Warfare 01:51:25 Protection 01:55:03 Rescue Hilachet Ship * 02:03:50 Calculus 3 * ---Cardinale Station---- 02:11:08 Seek and Destroy 02:17:40 Tank Support 02:24:50 Defend Refinery 02:28:30 Genesis * 02:39:30 Templecruiser 02:47:20 Rescue Team 02:56:51 Clear Path 03:03:45 Thunderbowl II 03:07:22 Protect Cult 03:11:05 Kidnap Queen 03:18:05 Distress Call 03:22:25 Escape * -----Aurora Station----- 03:30:05 Robohunting 03:35:22 Capture Sha'har * 03:42:04 Solar Flare 03:48:20 Protect Refugees 03:57:03 Hostage Release 04:05:40 Scavenge This 04:14:15 Roadblock 04:19:58 Thunderbowl III 04:24:14 Defender * -----Boras Station------ 04:34:32 Necessity 04:41:20 Sabotage 04:44:29 The Hilachet Betrayed 04:51:08 Infiltrate * 04:59:35 The Gauntlet * 05:07:37 Destroy Red Sun * ---------------------------- 05:15:25 - After the games credits I show the 5 endings shown for mission failure at various points in the game starting with what happens when losing the final missions. Also included in the Archive record are the original FMV files converted to uncompressed avi in original resolution from both the pal and ntsc versions. - Disclaimer: Most videos by World of Longplays use SaveStates!