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Overview

A modern arcade game. The player starts with 7 "credits" and can continue until running out of credits. A second player can join the game at any time by pressing start. Like most top-down run and gun video games, it has collectable upgrades and weapons, and features common aspects like bosses and levels, familiar with most games of this type.

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Trivia & Facts

Expendable supports Environment-Mapped Bump Mapping, a DirectX 6 feature first supported by the Matrox Millennium G400.

Edge praised the PC version's graphics, stating that "the textures are near works of art, aided by colour lighting, true shadows and ubiquitous explosions." An unnamed reviewer of Next Generation in its August 1999 issue called the same PC version "a smart little shooter, but one with limited appeal in the PC market.

A forthcoming Dreamcast version may be a better fit." However, their premonition was proven wrong one month later in the magazine's September 1999 issue, when Jeff Lundrigan called the Japanese Dreamcast import "a shameful waste of technology", and warned the reader to "Stay away.

Stay far, far away." In Japan, Famitsu gave the latter a little bit better score of 26 out of 40.

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