Chaos Control

The second, published by Virgin Interactive Entertainment, was retitled Chaos Control Remix to avoid confusion with the previous year's release that had no lightgun support. The Sega Saturn's European Chaos Control and the Japanese Chaos Control Remix included lightgun support and a two-player option. The sequel Solar Crusade was released in 1996.

• Title — Chaos Control • Developer — Infogrames Multimedia • Publisher — Europe Philips (MS-DOS, CD-I) Infogrames (Saturn) North America I•Motion Japan Virgin Interactive Entertainment • Platforms — CD-i, Mac, PlayStation, Saturn, MS-DOS • Released — July 2, 1995 October 4, 1996 (PlayStation, Japan) • Genre — Rail shooter • Modes — Single-player • Designer — Bruno Bonnell Jean-Claude Larue • Composer — Thierry Caron

Chaos Control is a sci-fi themed rail shooter which puts the player inside the cockpit of a fighter ship. Although the spaceship flight is automated, the player may target freely using an on-screen reticule, timing their shots so that the fighter's guns do not overheat. Targets across the game's four levels include mech suits, other spaceships and virtual reality constructs, most of which will return fire in an effort to drain the player's shields. There are no bonuses or re-charge power-ups for these shields, and play must restart from the beginning of the level if the player's ship is destroyed. Enemy positions are predetermined and unchanging. This - in combination with fixed flight paths - means that the player can seek to learn the game's deployment pattern for each level, defeating them through memorization. Chaos Control Remix supports the Saturn's Virtua Gun. The CD-i version requires the CD-i's Digital Video Cartridge to play.

• Illustration — Manhattan level: three Kesh Rhan ships surround the Statue of Liberty In the year 2050, the alien Kesh Rhan species discovers the Pioneer 10 space probe. When they decipher the coordinates of Earth from the Pioneer Plaque, Lord Commander Arakh'Kreen orders the fleet to invade and destroy the planet. The player controls Lieutenant Jessica Darkhill, a human pilot in the Orbital Defence Forces. She seeks revenge for the death of her fiancé, Morgan Kain, who was killed during an earlier battle with the Kesh Rhan on Mars. With the Kesh Rhan flagship having appeared above Earth for a final attack, Darkhill is promoted to Major and ordered to Manhattan to lead an attack against the Kesh Rhan forces and prevent the destruction of the planet.

Chaos Control is associated with France.