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Independence Day for PlayStation 1
In Independence Day for PlayStation 1, you fly combat aircraft against the alien invasion from the film of the same name. Above cities and other locations, you destroy targets protecting the enormous spaceships. Every mission has a time limit and its own objective. Sometimes you destroy installations; elsewhere you protect a reconnaissance aircraft before attacking a City Destroyer's main weapon. Your radar points towards important targets while enemy craft keep pursuing you during the attack.
You begin with an F/A-18 Hornet and find additional aircraft and special weapons along the way. Aircraft differ in speed, agility, durability and how quickly enemies notice them. You lose an aircraft when it is shot down. Alongside missiles and guns, you can collect temporary extra weapons; other items repair damage or extend the available time. You control your speed, turn onto a new heading and choose between camera views to follow an attacker or relocate a ground target.
You play the campaign alone. With two standard PlayStation controllers, you can also fly against each other locally on a split screen. You choose a location and how many opponents you need to shoot down. At the beginning of a campaign level, you can save manually to a PlayStation memory card; you later resume from that level's beginning. Without a memory card, the game gives you a password at that point. You cannot save in the middle of a mission in progress.
Region and language
Our PlayStation 1 games are PAL editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
Manual
Independence Day for PlayStation 1 includes the manual unless the product title states otherwise. If the booklet is missing, the title says “No Manual”. This lets you see before ordering whether the game comes with a manual.
The manuals included with our games usually contain at least English and often around six European languages. The exact languages vary by edition, so Dutch is not always included. The booklet explains the controls and the main rules. You can use it to check how to control the game, which actions are available and how its different features work.
The history of Independence Day
Radical Entertainment developed Independence Day, and Fox Interactive released it for PlayStation in 1997. The game followed the 1996 cinema film, in which a worldwide invasion placed enormous alien ships above cities. The game gave aerial combat the leading role. Its story begins after a computer virus has weakened the invasion fleet's defences, allowing the pilot to attack the remaining protection and weapons of the large ships.
The developers used familiar elements from the film as the basis for separate flying missions. Alongside aerial battles, objectives included destroying communication stations and protecting a reconnaissance unit. Locations such as the Grand Canyon, Washington and New York therefore each received a different assignment. The original manual names Steve Hiller as your wingman, but you control the aircraft yourself. Additional aircraft and temporary weapons gave the arcade action its own progression, extending beyond simply recreating one film scene.
The PlayStation release combined a three-dimensional environment with radar, cockpit and external views, and short mission briefings. It also included local split-screen duels, separate from the story campaign. That distinction matters: the two-player option does not let you work through one campaign together. Independence Day belongs to the 1990s film games that expanded one recognisable part of a film into a complete game. Here, those elements are combat flights, City Destroyers and finishing objectives before time runs out.
Similar games for PlayStation 1
Air Combat for PlayStation 1 also has you fly jets and attack targets in the air, on land and at sea. You earn money from missions and buy other aircraft. Independence Day lets you find extra aircraft as collectible items and pits you against alien ships above recognisable locations. Both offer flying action and local duels, but Air Combat builds its aircraft selection around purchases, whereas Independence Day also uses found aircraft as your remaining chances.
Agile Warrior F-111X for PlayStation 1 combines aerial combat, radar and attacks on installations, much like Independence Day. Its multirole aircraft carries out military objectives, including avoiding radar and attacking ground and sea targets. Independence Day uses the film's invasion and gives every mission a limited amount of time. You also search for extra aircraft and temporary weapons, making exploration and collecting items part of surviving an attack.
Nuclear Strike for PlayStation 1 also asks you to identify targets, choose weapons and complete a military objective. You control a helicopter and later other vehicles, with rescue operations and supplies on the map. Independence Day has you fly aircraft through an area while a mission timer counts down. Both therefore involve more than shooting enemies out of the sky, but Nuclear Strike makes resupplying and carrying people more important, while Independence Day centres on aerial battles and destroying protected targets in time.
G-Police for PlayStation 1 links flying action to missions above densely built-up cities. Its police craft fights both flying opponents and ground vehicles as the story leads you into new situations. Independence Day shares that variety of targets, but uses modern aircraft and enormous alien ships from the film. Here, the city is terrain beneath an invasion fleet; in G-Police, you fly between futuristic buildings beneath domes and follow an investigation within the police organisation.
Colony Wars for PlayStation 1 also lets you hunt enemy craft and attack larger ships. This takes place in space, with its own science-fiction war and a campaign whose course can change through mission results. Independence Day keeps most fighting above locations on Earth and links its objectives to the film's City Destroyers. Both have you read briefings and seek weak points, but Colony Wars uses space battles, while Independence Day also brings terrain, buildings and atmospheric aircraft into play.
