Shoot ’em Up

In case you’ve been living under a rock, Digital Reality has been slowly revealing the cast of their upcoming shoot em’ up Sine Mora through their Facebook page. First …
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Last week we gave you the first of Sine Mora‘s heroes, the cigarette smoking cougar. Today we’re able to reveal the second. Allow us to introduce you to Ronotra Koss, the legless, wheelchair bound buffalo who packs quite an attitude. In addition to the character reveal we also have three new screenshots of the bullet-hell shooter in action thanks to PlayXBLA. Read on to get a look at the new shots of the game in action!

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Digital Reality has pulled the veil off of one of Sine Mora‘s heroes and its…a cigarette smoking cougar that also happens to be quite the gentleman. Or maybe its …
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When we think of Grasshopper Manufacture, we think of crazy games from the mind of Suda 51 like Killer 7 or No More Heroes but a shoot’ em up …
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First person shooters typically use the right trigger to fire; for various styles of attacks, beat ’em ups often use X, Y and B; Radiant Silvergun has different weapons mapped to A, B, X, Y, left and right bumper and right trigger. In short, its heavy on the guns. Radiant Silvergun, developed by Treasure, will be joining Guardian Heroes (also developed by Treasure) in the Saturn-to-XBLA port ship. Much like Guardian Heroes, Radiant Silvergun also has some older mechanics that work surprisingly well despite being difficult to acclimate to.

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Hard Corps: Uprising, developed by Arc System Works and published by Konami, is the latest in the Contra series, available now for 1200 Microsoft Points.

Hard Corps Uprising tells a zany tale about a corrupt nation or an evil dictator or both, some other evil bits here and there but truth be told the story is not the reason to buy the game, however there are many others. This latest installment in the Contra series, though not named as such, revamps the visuals with a crisp anime-esque appeal and animations and tops it off with an exciting hard rock soundtrack, as is Arc’s trademark.

Hard Corps epitomizes an action shoot ’em up in every way, for better and for worse. Tons of enemies on screen of which there are decent variety, but not too many you have to learn something new every two seconds, though the same can’t be said for the boss fights. The game starts a bit slow and there’s no formal tutorial so certain elements of the game go unexplained, but once you get the hang of the Action Ships and play some of the more inventive levels, Hard Corps shows itself to be as enjoyable and thrilling as any other Contra title. Read More

Demiurge Studios released the first gameplay title for their game Shoot Many Robots. Joystiq also notes the title will be coming to Xbox Live Arcade. Announced back in October the game is a sidescrolling shoot em’ up for up to four players that also features light RPG elements such as weapon upgrades.  The game is slated for a 2011 release, but nothing more definite than that has been revealed. Check out the attached trailer after the jump.

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Zeit² is a sidescrolling Shoot ‘em Up developed by Brightside Games and published by Ubisoft. It’s available on the XBLA for 800 microsoft points.

XBLA games are frequently prone to being viewed as “casual” because of their price point, and as such it’s easy to assume any XBLA title will have a casual playing style to it; Zeit² does not. The game has a tutorial where they explain how the game works and how to play, along with supplementary tips throughout the Arcade experience, but the handholding quickly ends and Zeit² shows itself to be a top shelf challenge worthy of any sidescrolling shoot ‘em up lover.

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