3D Shoot 'Em Ups

[Charlie]

Whilst playing indie game Prismatic Solid last night, a fantastic little Japanese 3D shoot 'em up and one of my favourite releases of 2010, it dawned on me there haven't really been any proper next-gen 3D shoot em ups.



If one guy can make that, imagine what splendour Konami could produce if they turned their attention to producing a 3D Gradius or Axelay, or if Irem produced a 3D R-Type, or if Treasure or Cave focused on evolving one of their games into three dimensions.

I love shoot 'em ups, especially 3D shoot 'em ups like Starfox and Rez, and it saddens me that now developers finally have the technology in their hands to create very complex, beautiful and intelligent 3D shoot 'em ups, they choose not to. It's such a missed opportunity. I guess no developer wants to risk investing time and money into such a game when they can knock out yet another tiresome first person shooter/third person shooter confident the majority of gamers will lap it up.

[charlesr]

Have you tried Xyanide or Xyanide Resurrection? Not next gen, and not amazing, but worth playing for sure.

[Charlie]

What system are they on? I'll check 'em out.

[piesel]

Xbox for the first and PS2 and PSP for the latter.

[rmoxon]

Isn't Sin and Punishment 2 a 3D shoot em up?

Its what I'd call it anyway (which means that treasure have done one already this gen).

Fantastic game it is too.

[dvdx2]

sin and punishment 2 - the best

Xyanide/Xyanide Resurrection (both pretty cobblers TBH)

Xyanide Resurrection has some nice FMV backdrops though

[Yakumo]

I can't find Prismatic Solid anywhere on the indie market place it's just not there. I can find it on the XBOX Live site but that won't download anything recently. I just keep getting a stupid white box on the screen everytime I try to download anything whether it bea movie, trial or full game. ;(

[charlesr]

Using Firefox by any chance? The live site queue doesn't seem to work in it for me either. Works fine in IE though!

[Yakumo]

Ah, yes I am on Fire Fox. It used to work though. OK, I'll give IE8 a shot. For 80 points, you'd have to be nuts to pass up on this game.

[Charlie]

Yeah, at 80 points it's crazy value. It is very short ('bout 20 minutes to complete) and a touch easy (except the secret bonus stage which is tricky) but it's saturated in style, has gorgeous visuals and, most importantly, great replayability.