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It's AWESOME

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: April 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is a good 2-D shooter.If you like 2-D shooters you should buy this.I recently played the game and had lots of fun.It is also 2-player.You choose between air planes,which all have their own special abilities.The explosions are really cool and you can power up your guns and make them stronger!You should get it if your a fan of 2-D shooters or any shooting game.

Sorry folks, this one just doesn't cut it.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: June 22, 2001
Author: Amazon User

At a glance, Strikers 1945 bears a definite resemblance to the Giga Wing games for the Sega Dreamcast. Those two shooters aren't exactly what I would call masterpieces, but they're still better than this game. Strikers 1945 has enough to keep hardcore twitch gamers happy for a very short time. Then, its shortcomings overshadow its merits. On the plus side, there's a good selection of planes to choose from, each with different weapons and abilities, slowdown is minimal, and the game is very much "old school"...maybe TOO old. The music and sound effects are incredibly bland and the graphics are inferior to those of many older games. Gameplay is, always has been, and always will be the single most important factor in a video game, but in this day and age, I really don't think some extra bells and whistles and a bit of spit polish are too much to ask for. Strikers 1945 gets boring in a hurry. There are a good many 2-D shooters out there...both side-scrolling and vertical-scrolling...that surpass this game on many levels. Einhander, Bangai-O, Thunder Force V, Silpheed: The Lost Planet, and more. Seek them out and leave this one behind.

Quality gameplay, but is weaked by it's short length

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 11 / 13
Date: October 03, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The Playstation version of Strikers 1945 is a near-perfect port of the arcade game. Basically, it's an old style overhead-view shooting game with a theme loosely based on World War 2. There are several different aircraft to choose from, each with their own attack style and bomb shots...but the levels are just way too short. It only takes about 20 minutes to beat from start to finish, and the whole game just has a "rushed" feel to it. The enemy design could use some work in a few places also (giant humanoid mechs do not belong in a WW2 setting). Despite it's short-comings, Strikers 1945 is still worth a look if you like the old shooting games like Twin Eagle and Raiden. As with all games of this type though, play it in 2-player co-op mode with a friend if you want to get the most out of it.

Ok..5 Stars for this??

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: July 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I recently bought PSOne with LCD screen, and play this game vertically just like arcade (ok, only available in import version). And I just can't help myself from being awed at this old game, where graphic looks so much better than certain newer games out there. Of course, you might say the newer games have better graphics(yes indeed, games like Silpheed), but look at them objective. They have this 'uneasy' feel to it, just using computer to make up all the enemies, special effects, and all that. However, Strikers 1945 boasts much more realistic, looks like hand-drawn graphic, believable explosion.

Of course, I wouldn't say this is the best shooters out there right now, however, when this particular genre is disappearing,

OWNING THIS TIMELESS CLASSIC itself is worth 5 Stars.

Yes, this game does have its own flaws, such as kind-of unlimited continues (but you won't be able to beat it in one sitting, like some other shooters out there with real-time unlimited continues..so unwise..what's the point of beating the game in one sitting?? THINK!!), certain enemy attacks are nearly impossible to dodge (ok, may be it's just me who just can't seem to dodge them when other people are having no time doing that), however, its merits are way greater than its flaws. You wanna talk strictly about shooter games with having Radiant Silvergun as the standard for experience? You wanna talk about Shienryu/Galatic Attack as best typical vertical shooters as the standard for fun factor? You wanna talk about Silpheed as the standard for graphic? You wanna talk about Ray Storm as the standard for music and best ending? You wanna talk about Bangaioh as the standard for creativity? Then 5 Stars doesn't make sense for Strikers 1945. May be 3 1/2 or 4? However, this is good enough, to receive 5 Stars at this time, where shooter is dying genre. I fully enjoyed it and play time to time again and again. I try not to use those special attack as I play more and more, and that itself is awarding enough.

Whether you like shooter or not, with this priceline and the fact you are here to own near perfect arcade shooter, it's priceless, at least, it's priceless for me. Please Enjoy It!!!

i'm 30

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game was kool in the arcade, I always stuck in a few tokens. Getting it home was cool too. Its fast paced and the levels are too short, unlike raiden which is well paced and longer. It seems to have a better smart bomb than the aracde did and the graphics are generally kool for a shooter. Its a great shooter if you are a fan, its way better than philsoma, what a let down that was, not as good as r-type or raiden, but offers 2 player shooter action unlike r-types, you can play it with your girlfriend (always a plus) so buy it if you are a shooter fan, otherwise go wow yourself with some over produced rpg.

A question

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: May 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

when are you going to have it back to sell on amazon

Strikers 1945

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 16, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Tnis is the ultimate shooting game. there are so many enemies such as aircraft carriers that break in half and one half becomes a crab with cannons and guns all over it, zepplins that can spray bullets like a hose sprays water (literally in that same pattern), giant tanks that will shoot you out of the sky, submarines that sink and come back up as a scorpion with a giant cannon for a tail and guns all over it, buildings that open up and have three AA cannons inside them, not to menchion the trains with armor and usually pull giant tanks. But along with this the plane YOU choose has things as good if not better than those such as one plane can launch a giant nuclear missile 10x bigger than you at the enemy that will destroy anything underneath it, another will call in two stealth bombers ( even though they are a little early for their time) that will bomb the crap out of any enemy, another plane will call in a plane glowing white that looks just like a concor and i haven't figured out what it does. Another plane will call in a giant bomber almost as big as the screen that can shoot in every direction, and another p,ane can call in an army of planes that will destroy everything! So if you like shooters then get this game ASAP
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