SHOCK TROOPERS 2nd Squad Reviews

[h1]𝔽𝕚𝕣𝕤𝕥 𝕠𝕟𝕖? 𝔸𝕞𝕒𝕫𝕚𝕟𝕘... 𝕊𝕖𝕔𝕠𝕟𝕕 𝕠𝕟𝕖? ℕ𝕠𝕥 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕘𝕠𝕠𝕕![/h1] If you know, you know. The first game had all the flair that makes for an amazing top-down twin-stick shooter. The art style, the level design... Yes the bosses were repetitive but it was a great experience... Shock Troopers 2 actually varies its bosses, but the game suffers because of that. You pick one of four (yeah, ONLY FOUR???) characters that go on a mission to save the world from a maniac who seeks to use a missile looking weapon to annahilate humanity. THERE ARE NO CHOICE OF PATHS HERE; the path splits in Mission two and you can choose one of two paths which are only three missions long, unlike the first game where the entire FIVE missions completely change depending on which path you take at the beginning of the game. The character models look like those early PS1 games that looked like they could be 3D but not really (I hate that kind of sprites). The problem is even the tanks look quite bad. In this one you can steal some tanks and use them, Metal Slug style, but they get destroyed so fast you'd think they could have done without them. Now unto the only REAL good thing about the game; the bosses. And trust me, they are quite diverse in this entry. No more palet-swap tanks, these bosses are very different than one another, and they come in stages, much like Metal Slug bosses (you can feel the inspiration). However, the game's flat level design, crappy graphics and horrifying lags make it a much worse game than the first Shock Troopers. I mean, it IS playable, for a couple of hours, but no more than that. [b]6/10[/b] game, and there are no third games!! How unfortunate...

Fun game. Great run and gun arcade game. Similar to Ikari Warriors. Grab this game and the first game when they go on sale. These games go on sale pretty frequently.