RayCrisis: Series Termination
RayCrisis, known as RayCrisis: Series Termination in North America, is the third game released in the "Ray" series of Taito shooting games. Chronologically, it is considered a prequel to the first game, RayForce. First released for arcades in 1998, it supported co-op mode for two players, which the PlayStation ports released in 2000 lack; these ports are the only games in the "Ray" series to lack co-op.
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DeveloperTaito
PublisherSquare Enix, CyberFront, JVC, Sourcenext, Working Designs, Micro Bank
ReleasedNovember 15, 1998
StatusReleased
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About This Game
A scientist attempting to bond a human clone mentally to the supercomputer Con-Human triggers something unplanned: Con-Human achieves sentience and immediately rejects its creators. The machine begins exterminating and cloning humans, deploying mechanized forces against an Earth with no defense against a machine rebellion at scale. A mecha-neurologist jacks into Con-Human's systems and deploys computer viruses called Waveriders through the Cybernetics Link — Operation RayCrisis — aimed at destroying the supercomputer from within. The operation works but arrives too late. The last humans have already evacuated to space colonies. Earth has been converted into a metal graveyard under Con-Human's control. The X-LAY starfighter and the surviving fleet wait at Terran Command for one final assault: a strike that will require destroying the planet alongside the machine that claimed it.