I’ve been looking forward to playing this side scrolling shooter for a while now. You can’t have too many side-scrolling shooters as far as I’m concerned. Fortunately, the grand daddy of all shoot-em-ups R-Type is available on the Wii’s virtual console. And now we have this little fella marauding about the 360 with Ikaruga on the horizon. Things are looking pretty rosy for shoot-em-up fans.
Omega 5 certainly looks nice with it’s high-def visuals. It promises to be quite tough too with the ultra-challenging “++ Mode”, where you’re only allowed one hit. You can also play with a friend, but only from the comfort of your living/bed room. Shame. Online co-op would have been quite fun.
It’s out now on Xbox Live Arcade, and costs 800 Microsoft points. Which I will buy using a pre-paid points card since I’m currently removing my card details from Xbox Live.
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January 10th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Although I don’t plan on buying an Xbox 360. I am very interested in this title. I hope that they port it to PSN.
January 12th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
I tell you guys I was once 49th best in the world at Ikaruga right? :)
January 12th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Yeah, I’ve heard that rumour somewhere before ;-)
I was 771st best in the world on Omega 5 on Wed after playing it for 10 mins.
Talk about commitment.