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Gunstar Super Heroes follows the epic battle between the original Gunstar Heroes and the doomsday robot Golden Silver, aka the God of Ruin. Having been resurrected by an evil organization known as the Empire, the destruction of Golden Silver resulted in the annihilation of Earth's moon as well.
Many years later, the remains of the original moon have now formed into four new satellites. The Empire has also decided to rear its ugly head again, this time stationed on a giant, mechanical moon of its own. Their quest is to resurrect Golden Silver for a second time. Your mission as the Gunstar Super Heroes team? Stop them! Gunstar Super Heroes has a singular purposeﾗdeliver lots of adrenaline pumping action. This is the kind of game where you blast everything in your path. No puzzles, no turn-based combatﾗjust pure, reflex-based shooting, punching, and kicking, with a smattering of quick-thinking necessary for the occasional boss encounter.  A graphic tour de force, Gunstar Super Heroes pushes the Game Boy Advance hardware to new heights. You've got explosions everywhere, whiz-bang special effects, unique battles around every corner, and lots of gameplay variety to keep things fresh. While consisting of only 6 stages, each has multiple sub-levels, with most altering the gameplay from time to time. You're collecting chicks in one level (ala the classic Sega game, Flicky) and flying a spaceship in another. The control, music and sound effects are terrific as well, making the game a blast to play. Considering its lineage, it should be. Gunstar Super Heroes is the sequel to the original Gunstar Heroes, released for Sega's 16-bit Genesis system back in 1993. Considered by many to be the quintessential action-shooter, any follow-up has years of fan anticipation to live up to. While it doesn't eclipse its predecessor, it's certainly a worthy attempt. There's a new fundamental weapon system. You now have an inventory of three specific weapons which can be individually super-charged, instead of collecting your weapons as you play. There are more cheap hits than the original game, too. Sadly, there's no cooperative two-player mode. Still, even with the alterations, many of the stages in Gunstar Super Heroes pay more than simple homage to the original game, with familiar music tracks, boss characters, and level layouts. There's a lot to love, even if a period of adjustment is necessary. The battery save lends itself well to gaming on the go. And with each character having three difficulty levels, and each difficulty level having a slightly different storyline dialogue, there's a nice aura of replayability here as well. Quite simply, if you're looking for a well-rounded action game for the GBA, you should not pass this one up.  
Gunstar Super Heroes is all full-on shooting action, so obviously the gameplay is inherently violent. Presented in an almost cartoon like fashion, the defeated enemies typically disappear in small explosions. There's nothing graphic or realistic, with a tween-sensible sci-fi theme throughout.
Reading skills are necessary to follow the story's text-based dialogue cutscenes. Skipping or not understanding the dialogue won't affect your progress, though. There are rare, mild cases of profanity within the in-game text. The game is best suited to the ESRB recommended age group, based not only on the ESRB descriptors, but the game's complexity and difficulty as well. While not impossibly hard, Gunstar Super Heroes depends on a mastery of the controls, including melee and weapon attacks. The control schemes may prove difficult for younger, inexperienced players. This review edited by Dave Long Comments? Chat about it in our forums! Format For Printing | Tell A Friend | Digg | Slashdot | del.icio.us | Buy This Game Browse Amazon.com's selection of "gba gunstar super heroes" themed games Home > Review Archive > Video Games > Results: Gunstar Super Heroes |
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