There are also rotating shields that cannot be destroyed and must be carefully avoided. This flashes when an enemy is in its sights.Įnemy craft appear in a number of different guises from the standard variety that arrive in large numbers but shoot slow-moving projectiles, to exploding black spheres that shoot projectiles at high speed. To enable accurate targetting of the air-to-ground blaster bombs, a white and blue targeting indicator is situated in front of the Solvalou. The Solvalou is equipped with two weapon systems the forwards-firing 'air zapper' for shooting air-based enemies and 'blaster bombs', for destroying ground-based enemies. Xevious (pronounced 'zeevious') is a vertically-scrolling shoot-em-up in which the player pilots the heavily-armed 'Solvalou' combat ship and must destroy the evil Xevious forces trying to take over the planet.
