/vr/ - Retro Games

Vanark is a 3D rail shooter very similar in style and gameplay to Star Fox 64, where you control a group of spaceship pilots defending the human Mars colony from an alien invasion. In each stage you play as one of the characters and shoot your way through 3D stages full of monstruous alien combatants, and the occasional boss.

Vanark also features a few deep space free-flight missions which put it close to a type of space combat sim, though the core gameplay remains the same. You can also control the pilots themselves in between missions, moving through the inside of the mothership, interacting with other characters, triggering cutscenes, and engaging in occasional action sequences doing things like disarming bombs.

The story is very involved and developed for a game of this genre, and while it's not exactly the most riveting thing in the world, it's entertaining and definitely feels like a bonus to all the rail-shooting action.