Crispy Gamer writes: "For over two decades now, the R-Type series has been synonymous with a specific brand of mindless space shooter. In these games, strategy and planning aren't as important as twitch reflexes and simply shooting everything that moves. It's a formula that's given the series a moderate amount of success in its niche through a half-dozen or so sequels. So it's a bit surprising that R-Type Command throws out that formula and instead tries to build a typical turn-based strategy game on top of the R-Type universe. The result, less surprisingly, is a largely broken game that is almost entirely forgettable.
There is a story behind the action in R-Type Command, but it doesn't really go much beyond the extremely generic "aliens threaten Earth" premise that was present in the original series. The writers try to add some pathos to the proceedings by presenting events through the lens of an inexperienced pilot who's been thrust into a leadership position as humanity's last hope. The writing and translation are so bad, though, that it's impossible to feel any connection to the proceedings. These text-based diary entries occasionally provide vital strategic data for the battles ahead, but this information is shoehorned in so inelegantly that it makes one wonder why they even bothered trying to craft it into a believable story in the first place. They may as well have tried to write a backstory for a game of chess."
What's Hot:
-Familiar character design
-Interesting stages
What's Not:
-Anemic story
-Brain-dead AI
-Overly simplistic strategy
This game is a turn-based strategy game with a hexagon field, you move your units according to their stats. This game is by no means a pick up and play game.
The controls are not the issue in this game, the menus are crazy hard to understand and the objectives seem to be missing in action sometimes or disappear too fast for you to read it all.
WorthPlaying writes, "Atlus U.S.A. titles are always hard to find at retail, and is now offering a number of titles from its PSP library as digital download via PlayStationNetwork: Crimson Gem Saga, Hammerin' Hero, Yggdra Union, Steambot Chronicles Battle Tournament, R-Type Command, and Riviera: The Promised Land."
ATLUS should get its own PSN Publisher Store if they keep on pumping out games on the PSN. SO far, EA(EA SPORTS), Capcom and R* got their own store.
They should put Demons Souls on the PSN store. It may be a huge, expensive download but it beats never finding a copy of the game.
Looking back on the year that just was, it is somewhat difficult to choose a list of the year's best PSP games. Not because there were so many titles to pick from mind you, but because there were too few. Although Sony did experience a slowdown in sales of PSP software during 2008, the year was filled with some very high-profile quality releases. Grab a cup of egg nog, strap on the yuletide cheer, and get ready as we count down the best 10 PSP games of 2008:
