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Latest revision as of 02:46, 19 January 2023

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Zax: The Alien Hunter
Zax: The Alien Hunter cover
Developers
Reflexive Entertainment
Publishers
JoWood Productions
Release dates
Windows September 28, 2001
Reception
Metacritic 70
IGDB 80
Taxonomy
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Isometric
Controls Direct control
Genres Action
Themes Sci-fi
Zax: The Alien Hunter on HowLongToBeat
Zax: The Alien Hunter on IGDB
Zax: The Alien Hunter on MobyGames
Zax: The Alien Hunter on Wikipedia

Warnings

GameSpy online services have been shut down (see Network for solutions).

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
Windows

Demo

A demo is available here.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Zax.CFG[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\SaveGames\[Note 1]

Video

Video options.
Video options.

Input

Input options.
Input options.

Audio

Audio options.
Audio options.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Dialogue is displayed in text boxes that pause gameplay.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
LAN play
16 Versus
Online play
16 Versus
GameSpy services have been shut down;[1] see GameSpy for workarounds.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DirectDraw
[2]
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Multiplayer GameSpy

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95,98
Processor (CPU) Pentium II 266 MHz
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 240 MB
Video card (GPU) 4 MB of VRAM
DirectX 8 compatible


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References

  1. Pricing | GameSpy Technology
  2. Verified by User:Eddmanx on 2022-09-19
    Checked with dgvoodoo