Retro Replay Review

Gameplay

Centurions: Power X Treme is at its best when you are moving with purpose: clearing a corridor, mowing down Doc Terror’s forces, and seeing your weapon improve after enough kills. Beginning as a scouting droid gives the opening a small sense of buildup before a pad changes you into one of the armed Centurions. The basic loop is plain arcade action, but it has enough momentum to make another room of enemies feel worth tackling.

The key-collecting structure is where the game asks more of you. Six master-key segments gate movement through the complex, and each lies on a pad surrounded by terrain that only the right Centurion can cross. You need to think about who you are controlling rather than treating every character change as cosmetic. That is a smart use of the licence’s exo-frame premise: switching heroes is tied directly to navigating the maze.

Still, this is a three-level scrolling maze, and that can make the objective feel more like errands than a clean forward charge. Reaching a key, realizing another form is needed, and retracing routes is likely to be the point where your enthusiasm either clicks into place or runs thin. If you enjoy old-school maze shooters that make you earn progress through navigation, there is a solid challenge here. If you want constant, neatly guided action, the maze work will feel like drag.

Graphics

The game uses a top-down, multidirectional scrolling view built around corridors, enemy-filled rooms, transformation pads, and terrain barriers. That angle suits the action well enough: you can see where shots and enemies are coming from while judging the sea, air, and land obstacles that determine which Centurion you need.

Story

This is uncomplicated Saturday-morning-cartoon territory. Ace McCloud, Jake Rockwell, and their fellow Centurion are sent after Doc Terror before he can infiltrate the Weapons Development Centre and steal Tyron Dichromate, a nuclear-fusion chemical. It is a perfectly serviceable reason to storm a fortified complex and shoot everything hostile inside it.

Doc Terror’s plan does give the key hunt a little more shape than a completely abstract maze crawl. You are not just collecting arbitrary items; you are forcing your way through the complex to stop a theft with potentially enormous consequences. The stakes are broad, but they fit the exaggerated sci-fi tone.

Do not expect the plot to carry the game from one stretch to the next. The story exists mainly to launch the mission, while the real personality comes from controlling the Centurions and using their different travel abilities to breach the base. For a licensed action game of this sort, that is enough.

Overall Experience

Centurions: Power X Treme has a better hook than its straightforward shooting initially suggests. Weapon upgrades reward aggression, while the different terrain types make character switching matter. When you know which route you are pursuing, it can feel like a compact action-puzzle hybrid rather than another endless room-clearing exercise.

Its weakness is the same maze structure that gives it that extra layer. The need to locate key segments and revisit terrain barriers can break the rush, particularly when you would rather be blasting Doc Terror’s minions than working out your next route. This is not a game that smooths away that old-fashioned friction.

At 6.2, it lands as a modest but worthwhile curiosity for fans of the Centurions or Gauntlet-like shooters with a navigation twist. Give it a chance if you can enjoy repetition, maze exploration, and a licence used in a mechanically relevant way. Skip it if your patience for backtracking is low; its best ideas do not completely overcome the grind of getting from key to key.

Retro Replay Score

6.2/10