You may remember Silpheed as the 1988 PC side-scrolling shooter that looked intriguingly 3D for a game of its time. Or perhaps you remember it as the 1993 Sega CD shooter, which promised ground-breaking real 3D only to be overshadowed by a certain fox, now a star. The series returned with Silpheed: The Lost Planet, but it was met with as many jeers as cheers. So now that the aging shooter series is readying for a launch on the Xbox 360, what new course have Square Enix and Microsoft plotted?