Sky Star Spark

A nice little Japanese arena shooter here for all you arena fans. From what I can work out as I don’t speak Japanese the aim is to collect a key and find the correct exit to the next level and so on until you complete them all. Sounds easy however you have many bullets to dodge and also the odd enemy here and there to get in your way and stop you reaching your goal and every time you get hit you lose point of your score. Visuals are very nice indeed colourful and detailed with matching music in the back ground which makes it a nice little game to play. Controls are cursor keys to move and Z is your only weapon. If your into Arena Shmups give this a go.

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Monsters And Mushrooms

This is another centipede remake and I don’t think you can never get enough of this style of game which is why I’m bringing it to you. Visuals are nice and simple and do more than justice to the game and in this version there are a lot more monsters for you to take care of. I won’t go on about it just go download it now. Controls are Cursor keys to move and Space Bar to fire.

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Zap 24

Zap 24 is best described as an Asteroids remake with a couple of extras. I’m not the biggest fan of this kind of game but found myself drawn to this because its nice and fresh looking with some nice new visuals and sound to pretty things up a little. Also if you have a friend then he can join in the fun because this is a co-op game so you can both blast the asteroids to pieces together. The other difference is you now get two weapons one is your normal laser and the other is a missile which does quite a bit of damage. There are lots of this type of game out there and this is one of the good ones. Controls are Cursor Keys to Move, Ctrl is your primary weapon and Shift is your special weapon and you can also change the keys from the main menu.

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Sparx 2

This must be my week for Arena Shooters because Sparx 2 is the second Arena Shooter to cross my path when I was over on Retro Remakes site the other day. This game follows in the Geometry Wars style like most of this type of game and it runs in your browser so you will need Java for this to work. It doesn’t bring anything new to the genre but I thought it has some very nice visuals indeed, my favorite being the explosions when you shoot something the rest of which are Vector style graphics. Controls are a little strange for me so took some getting used to  they are W A S D keys to move and your Mouse operates which direction you are shooting in and to help you along there are a few power ups to collect along the way. For me there can never be enough of this kind of game so I think you should give it a try.

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Chaos Space 2

Chaos Space 2 is an Arena Shooter that I found on the Blitz forum and being a fan of the type of game I downloaded straight away. The game itself is very much like many of the GeoWars clones that have been released over the years and doesn’t really offer anything new to the genre but it is an arena shooter and these seem to be few and far between so it deserved a go. As you play the game you get your normal kind of  power ups to help you along the all of which only last for a short amount of time before they leave you with your primary weapon to finish them off. Visuals are nice and vectorish and do the job well whilst sound is mainly music playing away in the back ground however this does fit in nice with the game play. Controls are Mouse Control only so are easy to get used to. My main bad point is that everything is in german so you have to click on a few things to see what does what and once thats done your away. Not one for every Shmup fan but if you like arena shooters you will like this too.

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