Raiden Fighters Aces package soon

Posted by John as 2d Shooter

Get your hands on a three in one disc shooter for only $ 19.99 on August 18th.   Let’s welcome Raiden fighters Aces, a top-down shooter of Raiden franchise with a history through the 1990s. The franchise starts spanning multiple releases that included three Raiden Fighters games towards the turn of millennium. Raiden Fighters Aces may not be the greatest top-down shooters in history yet it is good compilation of old school gaming.

While most top-down shooters wind their way to Xbox 360 as an Xbox Live Arcade, Raiden Fighters Aces reaches its fans on disc and store shelves. Raiden Fighters Aces on disc has few advantages over its XBLA equivalent, especially the full set of 1,000 Achievement points and a sturdy set of options for tweaking the game play.

Raiden franchise reliably reborn all three Raiden Fighters games for play on Xbox 360. Among the additions on this new package are online leader boards and a replay save option. Its technical limitation, however, is the classic visuals and sound can be improved.

The three games in one package contain little difference. Each of the three has a good selection of ships that carries their own stats and special weapons. It’s a good deal of dodging bullet among all the chaos that greets you during the start of the game.

Power-ups can be grabbed to increase your firing power or to add slave ships a la Galaga. This game is tailored like the rest of all top-down shooters. It dwells more on memorizing enemy patterns than any other skill set. The game can be brief to play but poses a big challenge of beating enemies without continuing to get all of the Achievements.

Each game can be played co-operatively and only offline with another player. I find it rather annoying that this two-player game can get rather hectic after adding a second bullet-spewing ship onto the screen. Come to think of it, any missing multiplayer features of any Xbox Live multiplayer features fails to live up to my expectations.

You may find the whole concept of the Xbox Live integration a bit unusual. It’s true that there are leader boards; however, you have to select the Xbox Live tab on the main menu to play a game where your scores will be registered. You’ll then find a more restrictive option set to keep everyone on the same playing field. .Even if you play under the default settings on the normal “Game Play” tab you’ll find that your scores aren’t uploaded to the leader boards.

Another oddity to the Xbox 360 integration is the saved videos option. You can only save a video shared online while playing an Xbox Live game. You can save videos in other modes but can only be viewed locally.

Despite these minor setbacks, Raiden Fighters Aces manages to offer an impressive set of options and features. It comes fully equipped with plenty of sliders and filters exist to get the visuals just right to what you need. It includes fully customizable controls and the ability to rotate the screen thus you are able to maximize your widescreen television.

Take a trip down memory lane when you get your copy of this top down shooter. Raiden Fighters Aces has the budget price and good assortment of options leave little to be desired. Be mindful of its limitation though. It lacks the feature of online multi-player. It is a three in one game bundle of arcade games which the actual content is still rather slim. If you’re looking for an impressive visual showcase, you should go look somewhere else.

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