''The Reap'' is an arcade

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. It was released in 1997 for the PC, developed by

Housemarque Housemarque Oy is a Finnish video game developer based in Helsinki. The company was founded by Ilari Kuittinen and Harri Tikkanen in July 1995, through the merger of their previous video game companies, Bloodhouse and Terramarque, both of which ...

and published by

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Software Europe.

Gameplay

The game has a total of 4 stages and each stage has three to four levels, altogether there are 10 levels. Players are tasked to shoot enemies in an arctic oriented scenery. Next they fly through the deep oceans, wherein between shipwrecks and fish bones are sharks,

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, and a genetically-engineered quadrapus waiting for them. After this there comes a canyon-desert stage. At last, players fight their enemies in a skyscraper city. The player's ship can get 5 weapon systems and all of them can be upgraded three times. The biggest weapon is a rocket blaster. Players can also find bombs or invulnerability shields. The game was influenced by the

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game

Viewpoint (video game) is an isometric-scrolling shooter arcade game developed by Aicom and originally released in 1992 by Sammy and SNK for the Neo Geo hardware family. Gameplay ''Viewpoint'' is Sammy's only game for the Neo-Geo Multi Video System hardware.''Vie ...

and shares some similarities like the isometric view.

References

1997 video games Third-person shooters Video games developed in Finland Windows games Windows-only games Take-Two Interactive games Housemarque games {{TakeTwo-stub Single-player video games North America-exclusive video games