Fourth Power

Fourth Power
Author	Tabris / Ghent / Wervyn
Company	None
Release Date	2001
Genre	Side-scroller
Download	No link available.

Fourth Power was a game made for the Weekend of Zeux 2001 competition; it received first-place. The game revolves around a freelancer trying to discover the conspiracy behind an outbreak of disappearing people.

The game is presented as a side-scrolling platformer with four stages and one boss level. The enemies in these levels are spawned randomly and constantly, and will usually seek the player blindly, ignoring any obstacles in their path, and damage the player upon touching them. To combat these enemies, the player is armed with a gun that can also be aimed upwards.

Stages

Stage 1 has the player approaching a government building from the nearby forest. Upon reaching the building and peering inside from a rooftop window, the player discovers that the government are too busy laughing their heads off to be responsible for the disappearances.

In the second stage, the player infiltrates an alien ship, only to find that these so-called "aliens" are only obsessive X-Files fans.

(I can't remember off-hand what the third stage is. -ww)