The Reap

The Reap is an arcade shooter. It was released in 1997 for the PC, developed by Housemarque and published by Take 2 Interactive Software Europe.

The Reap
Developer(s)	Housemarque
Publisher(s)	Take-Two Interactive
Platform(s)	Microsoft Windows
Release	November 1997[1]
Genre(s)	Shoot 'em up
Mode(s)	Single-player

Gameplay

The game has a total of 4 stages and each stage has three to four levels, altogether there are 10 levels. Players are tasked to shoot enemies in an arctic oriented scenery. Next they fly through the deep oceans, wherein between shipwrecks and fish bones are sharks, submarines, and a genetically-engineered quadrapus waiting for them. After this there comes a canyon-desert stage. At last, players fight their enemies in a skyscraper city.

The player's ship can get 5 weapon systems and all of them can be upgraded three times. The biggest weapon is a rocket blaster. Players can also find bombs or invulnerability shields.

The game was influenced by the Neo Geo game Viewpoint (video game)^[2] and shares some similarities like the isometric view.