Iji (0)

Story

is under attack by evil aliens called "Tasen". It's up to the cyborg Iji to save the remaining people of the planet. She is guided by her brother Dan through loudspeakers that are placed throughout the levels. Dan convices Iji to call on an alien taskforce consisting of a different alien race, the Komato, to help Iji wipe out the Tasen. But the Komato are not the salvation that Dan and Iji thought they were. In actuality they, also, try to destroy the Earth and all its inhabitants, because their sworn enemies the Tasen are there - fleeing from the ruthless Komato.

Gameplay

The combat in Iji is real time, each enemy has a Nano-shield that can be taken down a number of ways before the actual enemy can be defeated, once the enemy is defeated Iji can assimilate the remnants of their nanoshield to gain .

Iji can access 8 basic weapons unlocked through skill points and these weapons can be combined to create new more powerful weapons provided that Iji's crack stat is high enough.

For example, combining the and will give Iji the Buster gun, a more powerful automatic shotgun which uses machinegun ammo.

Influences

Daniel Remar, creator of Iji, has admitted that was a major influence, despite the game being almost nothing like System Shock 2.

The game also has echoes of and and utilizes some basic from games like

Soundtrack

The music for Iji was done by Chris Geehan and Dan Byrne McCullough with the exception of Further by VNV Nation.

The music for Iji also had some contributions from Tom Mauritzon and Daniel Remar.

1. Make Your Mind Up - Chris Geehan & Dan Byrne McCullough
2. Kinda Green - Chris Geehan & Dan Byrne McCullough
3. 3 Cans Later - Chris Geehan & Dan Byrne McCullough
4. Welcome to the Party, Pal - Chris Geehan & Dan Byrne McCullough
5. For Stronger Bones - Chris Geehan & Dan Byrne McCullough
6. Seven Four - Chris Geehan & Dan Byrne McCullough
7. Face to Face - Tom Mauritzon
8. Tor - Chris Geehan & Dan Byrne McCullough
9. Further - Composed by VNV Nation (Covered and performed by LifeForce; edited for length by Daniel Remar)
10. Main menu - Men And You - Chris Geehan
11. Level Clear - Chris Geehan & Dan Byrne McCullough
12. Dark Stroke - Chris Geehan & Dan Byrne McCullough
13. Lightstroke - Light Stroke - Chris Geehan & Dan Byrne McCullough
14. All That Can Wait - Chris Geehan & Dan Byrne McCullough
15. Hade Shade - Chris Geehan & Dan Byrne McCullough
16. Glass Soldier - Chris Geehan & Dan Byrne McCullough
17. Asha - Chris Geehan & Dan Byrne McCullough
18. Game Over - Chris Geehan & Dan Byrne McCullough
19. Hero (Wretched8 Remix) - Composed by Machinae Supremacy (Covered by Captain Goodnight)
20. Doom - Chris Geehan & Daniel Remar
21. ½ fabrikat - Internal SFX sequence player by Daniel Remar

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