During the exploration for new materials to produce more powerful battle ships, the Material Forces discovered a space mine on the enemy territories. Then the scientists began to analyze the material and concluded they had found the one material to lead 'em all - they called it DUX.
The scientists used it to assemble a prototype battle ship with more power than any others in the space to lead the fight against the Spiritual Spacers. Somehow the material seemed to be instable and the use of the assembled ship seemed highly risky, so that a lot of the scientists fell away from the project.
Since there hasn't been any other choice, the forces were forced to let it fly. Now you pilot this ship to reach the obvious. Good luck!
Dux is a shooting game for Sega Dreamcast developed by HUCAST.net & KonTechs Ltd. This game combines traditional gameplay with modern shoot 'em up features such as many bullets on-screen and an adequate scoring system. To make advantages of the Dreamcast's 2D capabilities, the game completely consist out of CGI and features high-resolution with super smooth graphics.
This is a CD-ROM based product and might not be compatible with some Dreamcast™ consoles manufactured after October 2000.
This software is not officially licensed, designed, manufactured, distributed or endorsed by Sega.
Broken Easily one of the most dislikeable games I've ever played. Worst shootemup on the DC by far.
*BORING enemy and boss design.
*No difficulty levels.
*Enemies and bullets blend into the background.
*Automatic continue(WTF?).
*Bugs and glitches.
*Checkpoints that you have to "collect"
*The controls suck (no auto-fire) and you can't change them.
Avoid at all costs.
wiisoldout(1) on 11, Jul. 2009 18:35 (HKT)
No title Great game!!!Great controls and fan....But it could have been better..with more 3d graphics and better exclusions effects....
By the way if you are a Dreamcast buy this game..Its rare cheap and brand new release!!
Oracle4shootemups!(3) on 05, Jul. 2009 19:06 (HKT)
If you like R-Type, you'll fancy this. This game is an obvious homage to R-Type, and though having it's flaws, really captures that game play well (orb works well, same weapon systems).
The style of graphics is an acquired taste, but it's got nice details (bosses coming in through the background, nice parallax). Color setting is interesting, though can be confusing (you can opt to leave out some backgrounds for better visibility).
Music is nothing short of fantastic!
Stunning and really adding to the atmosphere of the game.
The scoring bug and the "forced continue with keeping score intact" are indeed annoying, but will be patched and available to buyers of the original iirc.
If the patch works as promised, this is without doubt a great purchase for all people like R-Type.
I can recommend this if patched well!
forbeslongden(5) on 03, Jul. 2009 04:51 (HKT)
Could have been better.... After many delays, the Dreamcast's latest squeeze hits the market after a long road. Being an indie game like Wind and Water Puzzle Battles released November last year it's very impressive to see what has been done with the little resources the developers had, the graphics are nice, the front end is very Cosmic Smash minimal chic and the music has had a great deal of effort put into it.... But.... like Last Hope before it... The Sol Feace style side on gameplay just doesn't suit the style of game, not only does it restrict the amount of freedom to move unlike something like Ikaruga it also makes you contend with debris like Last Hope to which by the time you have charged a shot your already looking at losing a life.. And starting the level again in some cases... I was annoyed that I died at the SAME point everytime on level one due to lack of movement. Don't get me wrong I will support the Dreamcast as long as developers still take the risk, but this game will be one to add to the collection rather than a constant player, lastly the packaging is stunning, I have the Limited one the one thing I did though was change the box to a nice double white DVD case. What the artwork could have done with was a Dreamcast logo in the corner as it does have an identity crisis next to some of my later DVD case DC titles.
matrax65(5) on 02, Jul. 2009 00:09 (HKT)
No, I do not like it. I am a fan of shoot em ups with classical gameplay like Thunderforce IV and also waited (too) long for DUX to come out.
On a real television the game just looks worse it does on YouTube or on the screenshots. It is more like a flash game then a CONSOLE videogame.
I also had problems with bugs such as saving errors with a third party vmu or the score bugs.
