Railbreak Reviews

Pretty fun moder-day rail shooter. The difficulty level on normal isn't too high, and seasoned rail shooter players should be able to blast their way through the main game in a couple of hours. I found it harder to see than the classic arcade rail shooters, with darker environments and bursts of light. It really helps that attacking enemies and items (and civilians) have bright outlines. Also, color plays a part (different colored herbs, different color outlines for friends vs. foes), so if you have no color vision like me, you're at a slight disadvantage. Still very beatable. It did seem like those civilians have areal death wish, actively trying to get in the way of your bullets a lot more than in the old games. Not that there's a severe penalty for wasting a few. The voice acting and dialogue are fun and humorous, the conceit of a glitchy game within a game is played out well, and the action is fast and bloody. Recommended for rail shooter fans, but NOT at the full price. I got it for four or five dollars on sale and consider it money well spent.

Sometimes got good comedy lines, but sounds like the voice actors used computer mics and recorded them in the middle of the night and tried not to wake their family up! But all in all it's a reasonable rail-shooter game :) Has lots of modes but haven't tried them all yet. Will edit this review down the lines