Tuesday, December 09, 2008

Shooting Love, 200X - Import Preorder

«©NCSX» You love shooters, right? We do too. Love 'em. Damn the RPGs, the FPS, and the puzzle games. Give us a shoe box filled with classics such Gradius, Salamander, Soukyugurentai, Radiant Silvergun, etc and we're set. Over the course of the past year, the Japanese Xbox 360 has become the go-to console of choice for home conversions of shooters. NCS isn't sure why the X360 has carved out this unique niche for itself but maybe Microsoft is subsidizing the ports to attract the shoot 'em up collective/hive/audience. Our numbers are legion. Sort of.

When early 2009 rolls around, Triangle Service will serve up two of its coin-op shooters for the X360 - Exzeal and Trizeal Remix. The company also throws in a "Shmups Skill Test" on the DVD which features short but sweet shooting exercises that will check the twitchy trigger fingers of shmup loving gamers. Preorders are welcome to ship on February 19, 2009 and the first printing of the game will include a bonus Insanity Capture DVD
which shows expert players who are so skilled that they blow through Exzeal without losing a single ship. By observing their approaches to the shooting action, maybe you can mimic their moves.

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