One of the best games you might never play. It is a shame this game got over looked. One of the Xbox's sleeper hits.
The graphics in Orta are so beautifull, the best I have seen on a console to date. The world spans beautifull lush forest, to lifeless gray, wastelands. As you progress, you will see some of the most weird, but amazing boss cretures.
In Panzer Dragoon Orta, you play a girl who has been in prison because of a secret she is unaware of. Orta, is freed by a mystic Blue Dragon. This dragon has some nasty fire power, and both Orta and the Dragon take off to stop the people who put her in prison, and stop their plans for destruction.
Gameplay is soild. It's easy to use, but hard to master. Panzer Dragoon Orta plays like an oldschool rail-shooter. You use the dragons homing lazers as primary weapons, and Orta uses a lazer gun to stop projectiles from hitting the dragon.
The dragon is also able to morph into 3 forms. The Base Wing is the normal mode, you can boost normaly, and fire a lot of homing lazers.
The Light Wing mode makes the dragon smaller, much more fast. In light wing, the dragon cant fire homing lazers, but Orta's lazer gun fires much faster. Light wing is good for when you want to evade a lot of projectiles.
The Heavy Wing makes the dragon a bigger taget. He cant boost, He can only fire up to 5 lazers at once, but these lazer are more powerful. Ortas lazers also fire slower. You use this mode when you want to inflict a lot of damage.
Panzer Dragoon Orta contains lots of extras. You can play side missions, mini games, and watch galleries of amazing concept art spaning all the Panzer Dragoon games.
The game also lets you unlock the full version of the 1st Panzer Dragoon game, which makes fans of the series very happy. It also adds more life to the game.
From the awesome sound, to the amazing graphics and gameplay, Panzer Dragoon Orta is a sleeper hit. It is a shame it sold so poorly. Check your bargin bin, because this game is now hard to find. I hope SEGA makes another Dragoon game for the Xbox 360.