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Xena: Warrior Princess
1999 hack and slash action video game
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Xena: Warrior Princess is a hack and slash video game developed by Universal Studios Digital Arts and co-published by Electronic Arts and Universal Interactive Studios for the PlayStation in 1999. A Game Boy Color version was developed and published by Titus Interactive in 2001.
1999 hack and slash action video game
Xena: Warrior Princess is a hack and slash video game developed by Universal Studios Digital Arts and co-published by Electronic Arts and Universal Interactive Studios for the PlayStation in 1999. A Game Boy Color version was developed and published by Titus Interactive in 2001. Each version is based on the television series of the same name, which aired from 1995 to 2001.
The Game begins with Xena and Gabrielle walking down a road and Gabrielle telling Xena a joke. Xena decided to go travel alone to visit an old friend in Oebalus; as she approaches, she notices black smoke rising where the village would be. When she arrives in Oebalus, she finds her friend dying and she is told that "they are looking for her", referring to Gabrielle. Xena goes into the village, rescues the remaining hostages, and finds the Pirate King Pactolus. After his defeat, he informs her that King Valerian paid him and his men to distract her while Valerian's soldiers capture Gabrielle on the road.
Xena then travels to the Isle of Kronos to find Valerian, but is stopped on the beach by a Cyclops. Upon its defeat, she also fights Valerian's soldiers and defeats a troll in order to cross a bridge. When she finally enters the Castle, the King comes out with two bodyguards. After killing them, Xena asks Valerian about Gabrielle and why she was taken. Valerian replies that Gabrielle has been chosen for a very special ceremony and that her human sacrifice would help usher in a new world order. The king transforms into a Minotaur and runs into the labyrinth of the castle with Xena hot in close pursuit. In the labyrinth Xena, finds Gabrielle and kills the Minotaur. Reunited, Gabrielle tells her that she heard the King mention a band of Amazons. They decide to visit them in order to get some answers.
When they arrived in the Amazon village, the Amazons attack them on sight. They search for the Amazon Queen in the Lost Temple; however, a hidden group of Amazons kidnapped Gabrielle and lock Xena inside. As a result, Xena must go alone to find the Amazon Queen. Upon finding her, she informs Xena that they want an Amazon Queen to be sacrificed in order to create a new world. Gabrielle, being an Amazon Queen herself, will take her place. Xena kills the Queen and comes face to face with the main antagonist, Kalabrax, an angry Goddess who seek revenge from Gods by trying to create a world where she will be in control. Kalabrax tells Xena that she is going to sacrifice Gabrielle. In order to get Xena out of the way, she opens the earth and casts Xena down to Tartarus.
The only way to get out of the underworld is to find Hades himself. On the road to Hades' Castle, she has to overcome the traps of Charon, face the zombies coming from the ground, the undead boatman, and the Well of Lost Souls. When she arrives in the castle, Hades welcomes Xena and she asks his permission to send her back to the surface world to stop Kalabrax.
Hades sends Xena to the Village of Tir' Na to find to the Lyre of Orpheus, a key that will help Xena to unlock a Gate that leads to Kalabrax's Temple. However, in the village of Tir' Na, Kalabrax already sent soldiers to seek the Lyre. They have taken the Seer Fei as hostage. Xena kills his captors and rescues the Seer who, in turn, guides her to the druid Yat. She follows Yat to the Temple where a fight ensues, but Xena turns the symbols against him so he dies. Fei thanks Xena for saving him and the Village of Tir' Na; as a reward, he gives her the Lyre of Orpheus.
Finally, Xena travels through the mountains to find the Temple of Kalabrax. The last obstacles she has to overcome are the Three Serpent Sisters and the Ogre Protectors. In defeating the ogres, she completes a puzzle regarding chimes and the order they raise in. After working her way through each of the five Ogres and the odd harpy, she strikes the chimes in the correct order, plays the lyre, and opens the portal.
Xena is transported to the Temple of Pinnacles and found Gabrielle tied to the altar, arriving just before Gabrielle was to sacrificed. Xena fights and kills the two guards and Kalabrax. As she walks to the altar to release Gabrielle, Kalabrax transforms into a beast. In order to truly defeat Kalabrax, Xena makes him run into the supports of the ceiling, smashing them such that the Temple begins to collapse on top of him.
After this last battle, Xena finally reunites with Gabrielle and they embrace each other. After a while, Gabrielle suggests to Xena that they create a game based on the adventure they lived.
The PlayStation version of Xena: Warrior Princess is played from a third-person perspective and consists of linear hack and slash and action gameplay, with some platform-jumping and puzzle-solving sections. The game's story involves the evil sorceress Kalabrax, who escapes after centuries of imprisonment and plots revenge against the world, and against the gods who imprisoned her. She must sacrifice a queen for her spell to gain maximum power. With help from her allies, Kalabrax captures Gabrielle, the Queen of the Amazons. Xena, the warrior princess, embarks on a journey to rescue Gabrielle, while facing various villains along the way.
The player controls Xena, who must defeat all enemies and complete tasks to proceed through each level of the game. Xena can carry out numerous attacks through a combination of button commands performed by the player. If the attack is executed successfully, Xena lets out her signature warrior scream. Xena can run, jump, kick, slash, and block enemy attacks, as well as perform groin kicks and cartwheels.
The player can also use power-ups found throughout the game. Power-ups can replenish the player's health, as well as provide armor upgrades or additional attack abilities. The player can also use Xena's chakram, a weapon featured on the television series. The chakram can be used against enemies, as well as cutting chains and flipping switches. Optionally, the player can also steer the chakram while it
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