SNES vs. Genesis: A Battle for the Ages! [Part 1 is over, platformers coming up next]

[A Black Falcon]

Well, I finally played this and, aside from the subtitle, it's really not very good. There's literally nothing at all here to distinguish this from any other run-and-gun shooter on either system and it runs like an old man covered in iron weights. I'd rather even play R2 over this!

But don't you at least have to agree that the subtitle is completely awesome? :)


Anyway though, most reviews of GunForce are mediocre, so you're not alone on that. I like it a bit more than most I think. It's probably partially nostalgia, partially the connections it has to Metal Slug, partially that it is fun anyway, even if it isn't the best game ever for sure.

I mean, it's got vehicles you can ride in, a main gun with infinite ammo and pickup weapons which you can only have one of and which have limited ammo, aliens (play it to the end), and some other things which you also find in Metal Slug. GunForce 2 did more, including adding prisoners to rescue which give you powerups and having some of that distinctive Metal Slug style art in it, but a few things were present from the beginning. :)

Playing them again, I'll agree that ratings-wise GunForce isn't as good as Contra III. It's easier and thus more fun to play for someone like me who is horrible at Contra, but overall, sure, it's not as good. I mean, I've beaten GunForce on the SNES on default difficulty, while as I've said I've never gotten past halfway at most in any Contra game... those games are too hard, Contra III stops being fun too much of the time. In contrast, I actually have fun when playing GunForce. No matter how "good" or not it is, I like it and have fun playing it. But sure, I'll admit that I'd have to give it a lower score than Contra III. It does have quite a bit of slowdown on SNES (less in the arcade of course), is kind of short and only moderately challenging, has some questionable game mechanics, etc.

Oh, I agree R2 is a better game too, yeah, but that's because R2 is one of my favorite run & gun games on the system...

Oh, GunForce does also have two player, but I imagine it's got even more slowdown than the single player mode does...