Radix: Beyond the Void

Radix: Beyond the Void

Released1995
Radix: Beyond the Void is a 2.5D First-person shooter developed by Neutral Storm Entertainment and published by Epic MegaGames for DOS in 1995. In the mid-1990s, the popularity of Doom led to many shareware "Doom clones", with Radix being one of the few first person shooters which takes place in a zero gravity environment and where the player controls a ship rather than a human. In some sense, Radix is superficially similar to Descent. However while Descent had full 3D maps with six degrees of motion, Radix uses the earlier 2.5D map designs of Doom clones. These are characterized by flat levels with no rooms over rooms, albeit with slopes of various degrees. Despite being a spacecraft, motion is limited with no movements upwards or downwards, nor upside down.

Details

DeveloperNeutral Storm
PublisherProSoft, Epic Games, CDV Software
ReleasedNovember 8, 1995
StatusReleased
GenresShooterReal Time Strategy (RTS)Strategy
ThemesActionScience fiction
PlatformsDOS DOS
ModesSingle player

About This Game

By the 22nd century, the United Earth Space Alliance had guided humanity into a lasting world peace and turned its full attention to space exploration. In 2147, the UESA launched a colony ship toward the asteroid Theta-2—but the follow-up vessel carrying the colonists was ambushed by alien ships emerging from a spatial anomaly that would become known as the Void. The fate of ten thousand people went unknown. In response, humanity built the inter-dimensional starfighter Radix and sent it through the Void to confront the alien threat.