During the 16-bit era, alotta genres that are now taken for granted were born. Doom brought us the First Person Shooter to PCs, Mortal Kombat brought Fatalities to 1 on 1 fighting, Madden and NBA Jam made sports games permenant fixtures on any console. GUNSTAR HEROES rewrote how gamers looked at side scrolling shooters. The guys at Treasure should have awards all over their walls for creating it. GH is like Contra meets Mega Man. Your character can carry two ranged weapons at once and can use grab/melee attacks up-close. The graphics style was a unique Anime style that was still new to Western gamers and felt fresh. The onscreen action was intense; enemies seem to come out of the wood work. The levels would start by your character(s) being on what looked like a giant monopoly board. You would walk over to a giant dice, grab it and kick it way up in the air. When it landed on a number your avatar would move that many spaces on the board. Depending on the space, you'd be teleported to one of several diverse locals. Then the action would start flying. If you own a Nintendo Wii and have broadband internet, by a Wii Points card and download this game! You can thank me later.
Not only is this, bar none, the greatest Sega Genesis games ever created, but also one of the best games on any console. The levels are innovative, the graphics were gorgeous for their time, and it holds one of the b... Read Full Review
GUNSTAR HEROES: A game like this comes along only every once in a blue moon. There's one every other year...maybe. A game so underestimated, so underappreciated, so under the radar, so underground that it catches o... Read Full Review
