Tuesday, 13 September 2011

Radiant Silvergun comes to XLBA

I heard a rumour Treasure were bringing their legendary debut shmup, Radiant Silvergun, to XBLA, but I had no idea it was ready.  What's more, it'll be here tomorrow.

If you haven't played Radiant Silvergun before, it goes out of its way to give players a unique shoot 'em up experience.  There are no power ups, instead you get seven modes of fire, activated by pressing different combinations of the three buttons.  It also features a brilliant colour-coded point system based on the order and patterns you kill (or avoid) enemies.  There's a nice overview of the mechanics on Hardcore Gaming 101 here.

The XBLA version features local and online 2-player co-op modes, both the original arcade version and Saturn version of the game (with its frankly superfluous animated cutscenes), an option to enable Ikaruga's scoring system and multiple display filters - some of which do a great job of making it look high def.

So until Wednesday, let's have another look at the trailer they released last year.



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