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(Also known as "Gunstar Future Heroes") The long-awaited sequel to "Gunstar Heroes," one of the most critically acclaimed 2D games of all time, is here. Treasure, the legendary team responsible for the original, works their magic all over again with all-new levels, bosses, and weapons. Gunstar Super Heroes offers cool mini-game elements amid its traditional fast-paced gameplay, like an After Burner-inspired aerial sequence. Precision gunplay and brilliant visuals create a revelatory experience for newcomers and a major gaming milestone for hardcore fans. [Sega]
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Gunstar Heroes is just one of those great "kitchen sink" moments when a group of creative people are finally given the freedom to do everything they've ever wanted. How else can one explain the sheer diversity present from start to finish? Notice, first, your choice of two main characters. In addition to firing guns, you can ... throw enemies, jump kick, body dive, slide, hang from ceilings, or even block. Your choice of weapons is determined by collecting various power-up icons, and then combining them into new weapons. Want a flamethrower?
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Shortly after its original release, Gunstar Heroes made its way to Sega's handheld machine, Game Gear. The port was handled not by Treasure, but by development house M2. As the console's power could not be matched to that of the Mega Drive, the game was significantly scaled down, stripping its multiplayer mode, Black's Dice Maze, and several graphic effects. It does... add in a few new features such as a jetpack level and the chance to drive one of the walker robots from later in the 16-bit version.
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Like any action game of the era, Gunstar Heroes doesn't spend a lot of time with exposition. However, unlike other games, it has a strongly pronounced visual style and setting, right on down to the determined look in your character's manga-styled eyes. The comical visual style of the game is similar to that of the later Metal Slug series, and like those games, Gunstar Heroes combines some very intense shooting action and over-the-top boss battles with refreshing moments of comic relief. The gameplay itself will constantly have you on edge, though, because this isn't simply your average side-scrolling shoot-'em-up. Stages will take you in every direction and will constantly throw you from one encounter into another, sometimes challenging you to take on multiple tough boss enemies in close sequence. This was one of Gunstar Heroes' innovations; it doesn't save bosses just for the end or middle of the level but instead subverts a lot of level design conventions in a remarkable way.
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Released in September 1993, Gunstar Heroes is considered by many to be the best action game, or best game period, for the Genesis. Gunstar Heroes has a lot of variety in both the moves you can perform and the stage design. As Gunstar Red or Blue, your mission is to rescue the four gems from being in the wrong hands.
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Gunstar Heroes is just about the best game ever made for the Sega Genesis. It certainly symbolized everything that made the Genesis so cool: terrific music, speed, innovation, and style, style, style. There is more style and clever ideas crammed into this game than in many consoles’ entire libraries, and I’m sure that sounds like some cheesy cliché, but this time it’s very true. Gunstar is the rightful heir to the greatest of all the run-and-gun shooters, Contra; Contra filtered through 1990’s pop culture, Japanese anime, channel surfing, and way too many explosions.
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