Every weekend, Windows Central streams an Xbox One game or two on Twitch for 1-2 hours and gives out free games to the cool people who join us during the stream. It's like a live podcast, only you also get to watch a game while chatting with our awesome readers and viewers!
Tonight we played sci-fi twin-stick shooter Tachyon Project, a slick twin-stick shooter for Xbox One and Steam. Read on for quick impressions, contest winners, and the full video replay!
Tachyon Project
There are plenty of fast-paced twin-stick shooters in the sea, but Tachyon Project stands out from the crowd with its inventive science fiction story. In the near future, a pair of hackers invent an AI named Ada that can evolve and break into any system. Unfortunately, the authorities discover and capture them just as Ada is born. Now Ada must fight to recover her parents and discover her place in the world…
Tachyon Project's story mode features a vast array of levels, each with multiple waves and objectives. Players must kill specific targets, survive for a period of time against overwhelming odds, and much more. A ship upgrade system lets you unlock and equip the best weapons for the level at hand. And when you're finished with Story Mode and Story Mode+, Challenge Mode packs a number of challenges with local multiplayer support.
Fans of Geometry Wars 3 and other arena-based twin-stick shooters won't want to miss Tachyon Project!
Stranger in Sword City
Stranger in Sword City is the first and only dungeon-crawling RPG (Role-Playing Game) on Xbox One. As the game begins, a plane from our world vanishes only to crash in a mysterious fantasy world. The sole survivor becomes a Stranger, a human with supernatural powers. The hero joins the other Strangers in Sword City and begins a fight to recover Blood Crystals from dangerous Lineage monsters.
In the tradition of classic games like Might & Magic and Wizardry, Stranger in Sword City takes place entirely from a first-person perspective. Players must explore a variety of grid-based dungeons, filling in the map and battling all manner of monsters along the way.
The equipment found in dungeons can be identified back in town, hopefully boosting your party's chances of survival. Players can only save progress in town, so the further you go into a dungeon, the more dangerous it gets. Prepare for a challenging (and grindy) RPG experience.
Recently released on Xbox One and PlayStation Vita, Stranger in Sword City mixes traditional first-person dungeon-crawling with gorgeous Japanese artwork. If you long for an old-school, tough-as-nails RPG experience, look no further.
See Stranger in Sword City on Xbox.com
The Contest
We streamed Tachyon Project for 60 minutes and Stranger in Sword City for ~30 minutes. During that time, we gave out 20 game codes:
- 10 Tachyon Project for Xbox One
- 5 Tachyon Project for PlayStation 4 (North American accounts only)
- 5 Tachyon Project for Steam
See the winners at the end of this story.
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Future streams
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- April 9: Enigmatis from Artifex Mundi – a brand new release!
- April 16 and 23: To be announced
- Saturday, April 30: Arslan: The Warriors of Legend from Koei Tecmo – A $60 value!
We hope you'll tune in as often as you can! Set a recurring alarm on your phone so you'll always know when it's time for the stream to start.
Winners
These guys and gals are ready for some hacking and shooting!
Tachyon Project Xbox One
- Co0lzzz
- Swizzlerzs
- Qwe123878
- Actuallyalejandro
- Hhtactics
- Cgriffiths86
- Souza_rs
- Nullvectorq
- Andydjr
- Mtaraylz
Tachyon Project PlayStation 4
- Bobjones1980
- Mase123987
- Rann7878
- Halobanger
- Jasontehpanda
Tachyon Project Steam
- Shawnsig
- Gromit434
- Brownmeister2
- Stetorg
- WestX
Tonight's prizes provided by Eclipse Games. Thanks also to our Twitch stream moderators for keeping the peace and giving away the prizes!