Posted on: June 1, 2017
VinsanityV22
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A great port of a great game :)
Lets get this out of the way now: here is another good GOG version of a Neo Geo classic. This has your full suite of options for a classic game, so no worries as to the quality of this port. This is NOT a King of Fighters 2002 situation, thankfully :) Shock Troopers is an awesome, bizarrely underappreciated topdown run-n-gun game. If Metal Slug is like SNK's Contra, Shock Troopers is their... Heavy Barrel? That's even more obscure, lol. Whatever; just know this is good. You can pick a character, or a team of 3, from a squad of 8 mercenaries (all of whom sport differing guns and secondary weapons like grenades). Then you go to town on scores of unfortunate enemies as they run at you, toss explosives at you, fall from the sky with parachutes, and just try to murder you by any way necessary. But you can shoot (and like Metal Slug, melee them at close range), throw out your secondaries, and dodge roll to avoid fire. When they die, they drop power-ups like more bombs and new guns - some people may go for the Flamethrower, but real gamers know the SpreadGun's where its at :) This action is simple, well-done arcade goodness that still entertains today. Still its not perfect, through to sheer age. We live in a post-Geometry Wars age. Any top-down run-n-gun without dual stick controls just feels not as great as contemporary ones. Like, you could buy Assault Heroes or Assault Android Cactus on a variety of platforms today. Conversely, Shock Troopers feels rigid and constrained, even though it was designed well around its mechanics. Oh well, what can you do besides play for awhile until you just recalibrate your brain around the older-school way of doing things? Its a good game, it deserves attention from shooter fans, its just a little weird nowadays. Its also not as colorful or good-looking as its sequel. Shock Troopers is a great version of a great game that's not quite the homerun it used to be due to age. But it is most definitely a good old game :)
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