The guys of Gaming Boulevard review Steel Empire for Nintendo 3DS and concluded:
Steel Empire offers a great steampunk shoot ’em up experience for the Nintendo 3DS owners. If you like your shoot ’em up games fast and gorgeous, this one should definitely be on your radar. The setting is brilliant and the boss battles offer a lot of fun. It’s a shame there aren’t more than seven playable levels but replaying the levels with different aircrafts is fun nevertheless. That being said, if you’re into shoot ’em up games, try this one for sure!
The classic shooter is available on the go and has never looked better.
Teyon, video game developer and publisher is reducing the price of Steel Empire, a steam punk shoot’em up game for Nintendo 3DS™with a massive saving of 40% off. The sale starts tomorrow, December 11, in the American Nintendo eShop and the game will be offered for $15.99. Be quick to grab the bargain till January 15, 2015.
Cubed3:
"teel Empire is a direct port of the same game released over 20 years ago on SEGA platforms, and also the same game that was ported to the GBA in 2004. This Nintendo 3DS eShop version features three-dimensional graphics and updated sprites, but the question is, does it hold up, given very little has changed in this 20-year-old game?
Steel Empire is a very typical side-scrolling shoot'em-up (shmup) style game, and barely deviates from this formula. There are only three buttons used: forward and backwards shot, as well as bomb. As the player progresses, they grab 'power up' icons that slowly make the plane shoot with a wider array and cause more damaging waves of destruction."
Wow, I was just talking about this game, just before x-mas. I was at Target with the family, and I saw a display with one of those knockoff 80-in-1 game consoles that also played Sega Genesis cartridges, it showed most, if not all the games preloaded, and I was just commenting about a lot of great games that weren't there SE being one. I got an eshop card for x-mas, I'm gonna pick this up.