X-Perts
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| System(s): Sega Mega Drive | ||||||||||
| Publisher: Sega of America | ||||||||||
| Developer: Abalone Entertainment | ||||||||||
| Supporting companies: Metropolis Digital (motion capture), Fat Box (sound effects) | ||||||||||
| Sound driver: GEMS | ||||||||||
| Genre: Action | ||||||||||
| Number of players: 1 | ||||||||||
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X-Perts is a sidescrolling action game for the Sega Mega Drive released exclusively in North America. It is a spin-off of Eternal Champions: Challenge from the Dark Side featuring Shadow Yamoto.
The initial run of X-Perts in North America incorrectly claimed on the box that the game had battery-back up saving. Later revisions covered up this error with a Deep Water sticker.
Contents
Story
In an alternate timeline in which she was not killed by the Black Orchid Corporation in 1993, the assassin Shadow Yamoto forms an ultra-secret counter-terrorist team called the X-Perts. A group of terrorists has taken over an undersea weapons factory. Unless the United Nations give into their demands, the terrorists will detonate a thermonuclear device that will destroy Earth. Shadow and her group must embark on a mission to avert the crisis.
Gameplay
The female ninja Shadow leads a team of two other fellow X-Perts in sabotage and other various missions. All three characters have character-specific special moves with differing attributes, along with three unique torture moves, which are used to interrogate various enemies. Players are able to switch characters mid-game in order to carry out different tasks.
Production credits
- Game Designers: Michael Latham, Tony Van
- Lead Programmer: Glyn Anderson
- Programmers: Paul Taylor, David Good enough, Lee Powell
- Character Animations: David Renneker, Czarina Liu, Linnea Wigren
- Background Artists: Mike Nagatani, Mike Gonzales, Rick Gonzales, Scott Harper, Lara Norman
- Project Managers: Mark Dickenson, Mike Malizola
- Additional Character Animators - Metropolis Digital, Inc.: Rick Sevy, Jessi Chan, Stephanie Mulqueen
- Additional Artists: Karen Mangum, Barry T. Smith, Diane Mello, Suzie Greene, Mary Patrician
- Motion Capture Actors: Donna Ng, Brian Reynolds, Mike Smith, Tina Valencia
- Motion Capture Facility: Metropolis Digital, Inc.
- Sound Effects: Andy Armor
- Recom Voice: Pat Chaney
- Producer: Tony Van
- Product Managers: Bill Onderdonk, John Garner
- Product Specialist: Clint Dyer
- Assistant Producers: Greg Becksted, Erik Wahlberg
- Test Leads: Jeff Loney, Rick Greer
- Assistant Test Leads: Dave Paniagua, Zac Fuller, Maya de Campos
- Testers: Mark Lerma, Don Carmichael, Joe Rousseau, Christina Hurley, Mark Dawson, Chris Lucich, Tony Lynch, Jeff Junio, George Sandoval, Tim McKnew, Geoff Jones, Lloyd Kinoshita, Annette Dancel, Ward Farris, David Wood, Wesley Ng, Ernie Deakyne, Jonathan DeJono, Kathleen Silkworth, Todd Slepian, Roger DeForest
- Testing For Abalone: Mike Wiltse
- Copywriter: Curtis Clarkson
- Manual Design: Steve Cambouris
- Special Thanks To: Janeen Anderson, Eric Quakenbush, Bill Person, Donvan Green, Sandi Hull, Paul Kohler, David Platshon
Magazine articles
- Main article: X-Perts/Magazine articles.
Promotional material
also published in:
- Electronic Gaming Monthly (US) #84: "July 1996" (1996-xx-xx)[6]
Artwork
Early cover
Final cover
Physical scans
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Technical information
- Main article: X-Perts/Technical information.
External links
- Sega of America webpage: Mega Drive
References
- ↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "June 1996" (US; 1996-xx-xx), page 64
- ↑ https://groups.google.com/g/rec.games.video.sega/c/SEFSrXb6KfE/m/IhaE7hN2el0J
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 VideoGames, "May 1996" (US; 1996-04-23), page 61
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Game Players, "Vol. 9 No. 9 September 1996" (US; 1996-08-06), page 71
- ↑ File:XPerts MD US Manual.pdf, page 26
- ↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "July 1996" (US; 1996-xx-xx), page 3
- ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 272
- ↑ Electronic Gaming Monthly, "June 1996" (US; 1996-xx-xx), page 20
- ↑ GamePro, "September 1996" (US; 1996-xx-xx), page 78
- ↑ MAN!AC, "09/96" (DE; 1996-08-14), page 69
- ↑ Mega Force, "Été 1996" (FR; 1996-0x-xx), page 68
- ↑ Mega Fun, "07/96" (DE; 1996-06-19), page 72
- ↑ Next Generation, "September 1996" (US; 1996-08-20), page 164
- ↑ Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 233
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Main page | Maps | Hidden content | Magazine articles | Video coverage | Reception | Region coding | Technical information | Bootlegs | |
| Games in the Eternal Champions Series | |
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| Eternal Champions (1993) | Chicago Syndicate (1995) | Eternal Champions: Challenge from the Dark Side (1995) | X-Perts (1996) | Eternal Champions (LCD) (1994) | Eternal Champions: The Final Chapter (unreleased) | |
| Eternal Champions related media | |
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Eternal Champions Special (1994) | Eternal Champions: Sega Genesis Official Power Guide (1994) | Eternal Champions Adventure Gamebook 1: The Cyber Warriors (1994) | Eternal Champions Adventure Gamebook 2: Citadel of Chaos (1994) | Eternal Champions Official Sticker Album (1993) |