Rice Digital takes a look at the best in a genre that doesn't get much in the way of interest these days - the humble Rail Shooter.
The early 2000s was a crazy, weird time of defeating dystopias with karate, sending texts via Microsoft Excel, and ignoring your pets so you could look at jpegs of pets. As its adverts might have suggested, the PlayStation 2 was no stranger to getting a little bit freaky either.
..that article /list is only scratching on the surface of the weirdness on ps2. There are way more obscure games on that console.
I would go alone with SOME on this list but a few arent even exclusive.. in fact the PS2 version of GIANTS is an after-thought and considered bastardized compared to the PC version.
The free visual upgrade for the PC version of Killer7 appears to have added AI upscaled cutscenes and textures.
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PD Saga deserved a mention. Is a better game than Orta, which itself boils down to being a re-boot of the first game in the series.
To be fair, PD Saga isn't a rail shooter - which is what this article is about.
Nice list. I do love PD Orta - but I think both Sin and Punishment games are my favourite rail shooters of all time. Nice to see Killer 7 and TxK on that list too, also Panorama Cotton! Awesome!
Panorama Cotton does look amazing for a Mega Drive game. Also, yeah, Sin and Punishment (N64) would be my favourite too.
Also Pokemon Snap. We NEED a new Pokemon Snap for Wii U. It's the perfect console for it.
PD Orta all the way. Loved that game.