Gaming Remembrance #7 - Uridium 2

Uridium 2 is a Shoot-'Em-Up game, developed and published by Graftgold, which was released in Europe in 1993.

Uridium fans had to wait some long 7 years for "their" Amiga version. It was well worth waiting I'd say these days, yet back then I had already bought me some 50MHz VGA PC when it finally arrived.
Basically Uridium 2 does to Uridium, what Paradroid 90 does to Paradroid. It's been all revamped, with all new'n'shiny sound and vision, Uridium on Steroids one might say.

Core gameplay is virtually identical to Uridium - fly over bi-directional horizontally scrolling dreadnoughts and destroy attack waves. Pretty simple stuff. This time though, there are numerous power-ups allowing the player to unleash all sorts of mayhem on both ground and flying targets. Once sufficient enemies have been destroyed, the player can then land on the dreadnought's runway and then enter the reactor. The reactor stage simply involves shooting the core while battling some rather tricky inertia.

Uridium 2 was a dead set ripper when it was released late 1993 on the Amiga. The gameplay, graphics and the music was right up there and really left an impression on me. Totally wooowww at the time, you had to be there! Fast gameplay, with great controls. One of the best shoot em ups at the time and probably still is. Smashed R-type and all that stuff.

The game gets really hard just over mid way through, I never finished Uridium 2. The original was a classic as well released in the 80's on the commodore 64, But I think Uridium 2 is where it's at. Everything is better in number 2.
Definitely don't make games like this anymore, Uridium 2 will live on forever for me!