Gunstar Heroes

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Gunstar Heroes was a two player game for the Sega Genesis. The key design feature that made it great game was the weapon system. Each character had a gun with two ammo slots. In each of these ammo slots, you could have one of four ammo types, and depending on how you combined them, you'd get different effects from your weapon. This opened up a simple, yet effective 'build' system that we often see in modern games. The fact that the different ammo types dropped often meant that you'd play through a level with several different build, as different ones would work better against different enemies.

Add to that solid art direction, great sound, wonderful, memorable level design, and some highly entertaining boss fights, and you have a classic; so good a classic, that it was released on XBLA and PSN in 2009, so check it out!

 

[Dohc-WP]

i remember this game it was brilliant i played this for hours on end along with sunset riders and cadash

PS gunstar heroes is / should still be available on itunes for iphones

 

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i remember this game it was brilliant i played this for hours on end along with sunset riders and cadash

PS gunstar heroes is / should still be available on itunes for iphones

Oooooooh, I wish it was on android too! I finished this game some 15 times. The boss battles really stand out against others of the time, and the weapon combo's gave massive replayability. I still have a rom somewhere on my PC, I should fire up the emulator again, I think..

 

[Tsar]

Hehehe I use to play this often with my buddy at his house. But never really getting very far. I bought this for my brother on xbox 360 through the market place. He adores it and finished it :O