Release Date: October 16, 2018
Fast Striker is a classic two-dimensional shoot'em up game, which was born as a fan project for Neo Geo and Dreamcast consoles. The production offers several gameplay modes, six levels, a comprehensive point system, as well as forty unique enemy types.
Fast Striker is a two-dimensional shoot-em'-up, in which we control a spacecraft fighting dozens of extremely dangerous aliens. The developer of this game is German studio NG:DEV.TEAM founded in 2001. The team specialized in homebrew productions for Neo Geo and Dreamcast retroconsoles. Fast Striker is the first work of the developer to be officially released on current-generation platforms.
This is a classic vertical shoot'em up. Like countless titles in the genre, players slowly travel through the linear level, fighting waves of enemies. The game offers a total of six different stages. Each of them ends with a duel with a large and powerful boss. In the course of the game, we fight a total of forty unique types of opponents.
The creators prepared a total of four difficulty levels, affecting the power and the number of opponents appearing on the screen. Going through the whole game using only one credit, you will get access to the bonus mini level, in which you will face the optional boss. After defeating it, we will unlock the true end of the title.
Fast Striker offers several gameplay modes. Each of them offers a slightly different point system or allows us to steer a different spacecraft with different combat capabilities and special attacks.
Fast Striker has full details and richly animated two-dimensional graphic design. The title operates at a constant speed of 60 frames per second.
Platforms:
PlayStation Vita
PlayStation 4
Developer: NG:DEV.TEAM
Publisher: NG:DEV.TEAM
Age restrictions: none
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Game Ratings for Fast Striker Video Game.
Push Square: 5 / 10
In review, Fast Striker is a difficult, but scrappy homage to the shoot 'em ups of old. Its Neo Geo graphics, while nostalgic, don't particularly stand out, and use an ugly palette of colours. The lack of additional gameplay features, especially powerups is its most egregious sin, but the experience is still an enjoyable one, if only for ten minutes at a time. On a PS Vita and for short bursts, this could provide entertainment for a bus journey or two. On PS4, however, it doesn't cut the mustard, and fails to stand out from the many, many indie shoot 'em ups available on the Store.
PS3Blog.net: 75 / 100
If you are a fan of retro vertical shooters then Fast Striker from eastasiasoft is definitely a good option, especially since it's a cross-buy release, so you'll be getting both the PlayStation 4 and the PlayStation Vita versions with one purchase. There's also a physical copy available in very limited quantities from Play Asia, which you can pre-order by clicking right here.
FingerGuns: 5 / 10 by Sean Davies
Fast Striker then is a competent score focused shooter that’s short but satisfying. It’s missing some modern day features like online leader boards but it’s a visual treat for the eye balls that’s accessible for newcomers on the Novice difficulty and a real test for shmup veterans on Manic or Omake. If you already have the 1.5 edition on the Dreamcast, the only new additions here are screen sizing and button mapping so it’s probably not worth the double dip but if this is the first you’re hearing about Fast Striker and you fancy a coin-op inspired shoot ‘em up to tide you over, Fast Striker could fit the bill.
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