Gareth Powell

To my knowledge, this is the first game ng dev team have made which never appeared on a neogeo console , ( gunlord x is essentially original gunlord , and then some) and, to be fair , it's a very strong title. It mixes the style of fast striker , with the collecting of razion ( both prior titles of dev team) but uses a lock- on feature , similar to weapons of taito's ray- storm. It promotes aggressive behaviour, bullying your way up the screen to kill many enemies before they have chance to fire . You'll be using your bombs alot here too, as enemy kills via that will yeald stars, and stars mean points! It's alot of fun , and the music here is particularly good, although perhaps abit of animation on the enemies as they die might have been nice, I get the feeling that, after kraut busters , they probably just want to get a game out there, that plays well, sounds great , and perhaps reach a wider audience than the neogeo crew, who , let's be honest are quite a niche lot. Overall a great game, and I'm not even pouting too much that I can't own it for my neogeo , to be fair , I think perhaps they're done with that platform now... ?

More of the same isnt necessary a bad thing, if that thing happens to be doom, a gloss of paint, and more detail , and your thrown right back into it. And , its all good, the only real thing i disliked was the weapons / suit upgrades screen, which was changed unnecessary, oh, and the jumping, seems doom guy now works for the moscow state circus, anyway, great game, worth a look , super shotgun rules