So I thought I'd spend some time writing a short blog post to cover the shooters that are avaliable for Sony's system that hasn't seemed to have followed in it's Father's and Grandfather's shoes for wealth of shmup releases.
Now I own most of the avaliable Shoot Em Ups for The Playstation 3, partly because there is only one hard copy release that's only just about to be released in Japan this month. The others are only avaliable via download on the Playstation Network.
I'm only going to cover releases I know of for the UK & US Playstation Network, but please leave comments if there's any I have missed or any I should know about. In particular the Japanese Playstation Network releases. I do have a Japanese account but rarely use it.
I do not own all these games yet, so if some are questionable entries then please let me know your thoughts.
So lets start with the recent, due to be hard copy release:
The following are all available for download from The Playstation Network. I've seperated them into Sub-genre. eg. Hori, Vert, Arena..
HORIZONTAL
GundeadliGne
VERTICAL
1942 Joint Strike
Alpha Mission II
(Vertical fixed)
Hitogata Happa
RAIL
ARENA
So there we have it. More than some of you may have thought, less than some of us wish we had. I hope this helps any PS3 owners out there who want to play Shoot Em Ups and don't have access to the rather spoilt this gen counterpart, the Xbox 360.
Like I said before, if there are any I have missed from my findings then please let me know and I will add them in.
