PSP shoot em up Tagged Stories

Xyanide Resurrection is a shoot’em up game that is set in 3D space. Plot unfolds in an interesting animation which mimics the comic book style. It all starts with a far away galaxy that is on the verge of an interstellar war. You play as Drake who is after Aguira the evil witch. She has escaped her execution and you are after her to stop her.

Aguira has the capacity to inflict darkness to the entire space and on your spaceship you travel through territories including enemy territories trying to find her before she inflicts major damage. The animated cut scenes are vivid and tell the story in a good bit of detail.

At times, as you play this game, you feel it is a bit awkward with the player having no clue to his goal. At every level, impressive scenery surrounds the tunnels you fly through. As you fly in Xyanide Resurrection PSP, you are constantly attacked by enemy fighters. Controls are a bit off way too. Though you can turn around 360 degrees and shoot enemies, most often, as you aim to shoot, you find your spaceship going up towards the ceiling making you miss the shot. This is a very frustrating experience.

Things would have been much better with a stationary ship and right/left shoulder buttons for controlling movement horizontally. Aiming should have been assigned to the analogue.

Missions lack in exciting bonus rounds and other aspects to jazz it up. There is no spark in the levels. On the brighter side, the ships look very realistic and attractive. Visuals are great with environments looking very inviting and detailed. It is exciting to see realistic looking asteroids and planets coming towards you in this space game on the Playstation Portable. Sound and music add to the excellent visuals effectively complementing it.

Even the multiplayer mode of this game plays quite similar and is not overly entertaining. With a lot of great visuals and music gone into this game, Xyanide Resurrection topples with its bad controls and gameplay. It has all the potential which has not been tapped effectively by its makers Playlogic. It could have been handled much better.

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Everyday Shooter is a game that saw its debut on the PlayStation 3. This ‘shoot ‘em up’ game is designed along the lines of other similar games in this category. Just as with games such as Geometry Wars and Robotron, Everyday Shooter is controlled by the analog stick and the D-Pad. This is probably the only change from its earlier Playstation 3 version as every other feature has been retained as it is. Gamers who are fans of the original version may be disappointed.

This standard arcade shooter just follows the norms of this genre with no exotic additions to it to make it interesting. Don’t except the level of depth or involvement as found in shooters like Resistance: Retribution PSP. Instead, you move around as a small dot advancing through stages as you collect points. It is not as easy as it sounds. Collecting points is quite challenging as you are just a small little dot. Moving around the screen in order to collect the points is quite complicated.

Added challenge is offered by the fact that if you die, you have no second chance. You just have to go back to the beginning to start all over again. The only saving grace is you can make use of the menus to gather more lives.

Every stage is uniquely set. However, once you complete a stage there is nothing interesting beyond that. Gameplay is quite simple and it is possible to learn the tricks of the game with ease. As compared to the PS3 version, it is difficult to keep pace with the enemies and projectiles flying around on the screen. You find yourself unexpectedly dying and you are left wondering what happened. The small screen makes it impossible to cope with the frenetic action.

There is also a slowing down of the game as explosions take off. This can be frustrating at times. The all-guitar sound track is simple and exciting. Sound effects are great as with every explosion the guitar effects are awesome. Visuals are great too and in combination with the excellent audio, Everyday Shooter should provide hours of good fun and enjoyment on your favourite Playstation Portable.

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