{"id":25156,"date":"2024-12-19T00:01:44","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T00:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=25156"},"modified":"2024-12-17T12:12:38","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T12:12:38","slug":"irem-collection-volume-2-ps4-ps5-switch-xbox-one-x-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/19\/irem-collection-volume-2-ps4-ps5-switch-xbox-one-x-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Irem Collection Volume 2 (PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, X\/S)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Irem was a video game publisher who made a lot of arcade classics like Moon Patrol, Kid Niki: Radical Ninja, Kung Fu Master, and R-Type.\u00a0 They also made a lot of console games, including a couple of my favorites: Kickle Cubicle on NES and Steambot Chronicles on PS2.\u00a0 Sadly they went out of business in 2011, but now you can play a handful of their arcade games in this collection.\u00a0 This one includes a vertically scrolling shooter and a couple of run and guns, so let\u2019s take a look at them.\u00a0 Irem Collection Volume 2 is available on all current consoles, but reviewed on PS4 here.<\/p>\n

Air Duel<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s just a typical 90s vertically scrolling military shooter.\u00a0 You can choose between an airplane with shots that go straight, or a helicopter that lets you tilt the shots from side to side.\u00a0 You can also fire a bomb to clear out a bunch of enemies in front of you, but you have a limited supply but can collect more.\u00a0 I wish you got more cool power-ups, though.\u00a0 Just an average and serviceable shooter.<\/p>\n

Gun Force<\/strong><\/p>\n

This one is a 2-D run and gun platformer.\u00a0 Collect power-ups to increase your firepower and you can hop into stationary guns and other vehicles and move them around.\u00a0 It\u2019s a bit slow and clunky, but still not bad.\u00a0 Two can play at the same time, too.\u00a0 What\u2019s really interesting is not only do they let you play the US and international versions of this arcade game, but also the SNES version as well.\u00a0 It\u2019s a bit slower and doesn\u2019t have as much stuff going on screen, but it\u2019s still pretty close to the arcade game.\u00a0 I was impressed.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t even know it was a SNES game, but then, it wouldn\u2019t have been on my radar back then anyway.<\/p>\n

Gun Force 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

This arcade only sequel definitely took some inspiration from Metal Slug, as you can hop inside lots of vehicles, there are tons of explosions, things going on, and crazy enemies, and you rescue hostages this time.\u00a0 It\u2019s still not as good as Metal Slug, but still fun.<\/p>\n

And those are all the games!\u00a0 You can play in casual mode, where you can rewind, activate cheats, and more.\u00a0 Or classic mode which has limited continues and doesn\u2019t have all the extra options, but you can only earn trophies here.\u00a0 My only problem is that there are only three games on here.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t even review the first volume because all it had were shooters in the Image Flight series which I had no interest in.\u00a0 I just remember back in the day when arcade collections would have at least twice as many games on them, if not more.\u00a0 But at least the ones on here are decent to good.<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Irem Collection: Volume 2 is rated E-10 with ESRB descriptors of Fantasy Violence, Mild Blood, and Suggestive Themes.\u00a0 You can shoot vehicles that explode and when you shoot people, they just scream \u201cargh\u201d and fall over.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t notice any blood, but all the hostages you rescue are bikini clad women for some reason.\u00a0 But I grew up playing these types of games and I turned out OK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Irem was a video game publisher who made a lot of arcade classics like Moon Patrol, Kid Niki: Radical Ninja, Kung Fu Master, and R-Type.\u00a0 They also made a lot of console games, including a couple of my favorites: Kickle Cubicle on NES and Steambot Chronicles on PS2.\u00a0 Sadly they went out of business in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25156"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25264,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25156\/revisions\/25264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}