Destructoid review: Omega Five

Who loves shoot-’em-ups? We do! In fact, we love them so much that this review of Hudson Soft’s latest XBLA offering Omega Five is largely irrelevant; sure, we’d love for you to read, argue over the score, maybe even offer a counterpoint in the comments. Yes, we would appreciate that. But what we’d love even more (and by "we", I mean "just me") is if you’d just buy the freggin’ thing so we can ensure a steady stream of shmups.
Geometry Wars opened a door that had been shut tight for US audiences for many years, a door leading to a magical world of high scores, crushing defeats and skill-based gameplay. This year we have plenty of shmups to look forward to as a result of the wildly popular downloadable content schemes available on every major console, Omega Five first among them. So how did the game fare with two of […]

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