According to an eShop listing, Terminal Velocity: Boosted Edition is coming to To change. A release is scheduled for March 14, 2023.
Terminal Velocity, originally released in 1995, is a 360 degree combat flight simulator. This time around, it’s been redone with the Infernal Engine, “rendering the original graphics with an improved HUD for widescreens.”
Terminal Velocity: Boosted Edition runs the original Terminal Velocity natively on modern systems running the Infernal Engine, rendering original graphics with an enhanced HUD for widescreen displays!
Return to the cockpit! Terminal Velocity: Boosted Edition is a 360-degree combat flight simulator, with a variety of different planets to battle against and an arsenal of powerful weapons to aid you in all fast-paced action. In the distant future, armies from the surrounding systems have suddenly waged war on Earth. You are an Ares Squad pilot flying the fastest and most dangerous plane ever built. You’re underarmed, underequipped, and strapped inside a flying coffin. You’re ready?
Terminal Velocity: Boosted Edition is more than just a flight sim, with combat as the primary focus and a Direct Control layout to push you straight into the action. Explore nine unique planets, each with three levels, dozens of tunnels, and miles and miles of terrain to navigate. To support you in combat, you will have access to seven destructive and spectacular air-to-air and air-to-ground combat arenas.
main characteristics
• Significantly extended draw distance allows you to target enemies from farther away while taking advantage of the game’s wide view of the landscape.
• Improved sky rendering code reduces polygon jitter
• Sound channels are now redesigned to give you the full 360 effect intended by the original code with output to a modern audio system
• Fast flight simulator with combat and simple control layout
• Nine (9) unique planets, with three (3) levels per planet, dozens of tunnels and over 400,000 square miles of terrain
• Seven (7) destructive weapons, multiple power-ups and spectacular air-to-air and air-to-ground combat.
• Enemy ships cast translucent shadows
• Lean, roll, spin and propel bow first in battles
Check out a trailer for Terminal Velocity: Boosted Edition below.
The game will be sold digitally for Switch as an eShop download. It will cost $11.99.