Wed, Feb 04, 2009 | 10:37 GMT
R-Type Dimensions on Live now
Yours for a mere 1,200 MS Points.
Blurb:
The coin-op classics, R-Type & R-Type II, are together at last! Fight through all 14 Bydo-infested stages in original 2D or all-new 3D graphics – and swap back and forth on-the-fly. Both Classic and Infinite modes can be played as single player or multiplayer missions; either locally or over Xbox LIVE. Power up and strike down the evil Bydo Empire!!
Go shoot something.
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Posted in: Shooter, Xbox 360, Xbox Live
Tags: r-type dimensions
31 comments
#1
Blerk
04/02/09, 10:39 am
Expensive.
#2
Psychotext
04/02/09, 10:43 am
I shall give it go for sure. I always was a big R-Type fan.
#3
OrphanageExplosion
04/02/09, 10:49 am
It’s awful.
#4
Retroid
04/02/09, 10:53 am
/Goes to download
#5
Retroid
04/02/09, 11:13 am
Blimey, the presentation is quite nice! Better than any of the retro compilations from the previous gen for a start.
Anyone worried about the 3D makeover: you can swap between 3D and the original (non-filtered!) graphics with a single button press.
Quite impressed!
#6
ecu
04/02/09, 11:14 am
1200 points? Fuck that.
#7
Retroid
04/02/09, 11:22 am
It’s for both games, remember.
#8
G1GAHURTZ
04/02/09, 11:24 am
Cool!
I’ll probably get it.
#9
Psychotext
04/02/09, 11:25 am
I love how people get their nose bent out of shape over £8/£10 vs £6/£7
#10
OrphanageExplosion
04/02/09, 11:55 am
You’re paying £10 for a 1987 game with a mediocre face-lift. It’s absolute insanity.
#11
Psychotext
04/02/09, 11:59 am
You’d have a point if it was the usual rom dump with filter rather than a full graphical overhaul.
#12
ecu
04/02/09, 12:07 pm
It soon adds up though, PT. 800 points here, 1200 points there, before you know it you’ve spent a good £40-£50.
#13
Retroid
04/02/09, 12:16 pm
Yes, on several games which would probably die an expensive and obscure death through normal retail channels.
/Hugs XBLA & PSN
#14
Psychotext
04/02/09, 12:21 pm
ecu: I’ve spent a good £250+ on XBLA so I’m probably not the best person to comment on £40-£50.
#15
SticKboy
04/02/09, 12:33 pm
Am downloading it right now. Can’t wait!
@ Psychotext: Oi, lend us a tenner…
#16
Shatner
04/02/09, 12:42 pm
Expensive!
#17
Patrick Garratt
04/02/09, 12:48 pm
Coo, ta.
#18
El_MUERkO
04/02/09, 1:20 pm
booo
#19
SticKboy
04/02/09, 1:20 pm
Hilarious!
#20
Shatner
04/02/09, 1:25 pm
PredictablypurileLOL!
#21
Zarckan
04/02/09, 1:37 pm
Am just pissed that I have to buy a 360 to play this….!!! Grrrr fucken M$ tossers
#22
Blerk
04/02/09, 1:39 pm
Buying a machine to play some slightly rejigged version of a 20-year-old coin-op seems… ever so slightly bizarre.
#23
OrphanageExplosion
04/02/09, 1:56 pm
You’d have a point if it was the usual rom dump with filter rather than a full graphical overhaul.
It’s still 1987 gameplay and the facelift is still mediocre, whether it’s ‘full’ or not. I played this on Partnernet months ago and thought it would pumped out at 400 points… 1200 verges into Peter Andre-style Insania territory.
#24
Psychotext
04/02/09, 2:07 pm
But 1987 is when gameplay was hot!
#25
Syrok
04/02/09, 2:12 pm
And Syrok was born. All in all a fantastic year.
#26
Psychotext
04/02/09, 2:16 pm
Thanks for that Syrok, now I feel fucking old.
#27
Blerk
04/02/09, 2:18 pm
Me too! Bloody youngsters!
#28
tont
04/02/09, 2:48 pm
Fuck you, R-Type Dimensions. Where’s my fucking MMO version of R-Type Final, with huge concurrent battles, huge fleets of Bydo command ships and bosses needing squadrons of players to take down?
Even if it’s just so 10 people can use Concert Masters to play a tune on varying charged blasts.
Instead, I’m asked to pay for yet another remake with a tilty camera.
#29
Retroid
04/02/09, 4:13 pm
The camera is only tilty if you want it to be.
#30
tont
04/02/09, 5:28 pm
Yes, which makes it even more pointless, surely?
#31
Madeira
04/02/09, 5:57 pm
Everything is pointless.
/cuts self to feel