Rade's classic game pick of the week.

Rade K

Ned's Ninja Academy Dropout
20 Year Member
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Mar 17, 2001
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Thunderforce 4.

Known as Lightning Force in the good old North American Continent, Thunderfirce 4 was released in the later portion of 1992 on the venerable SEGA Genesis gaming console. Being the third 'Force' game to appear on the Genesis, part 4 had a lot to live up to. The previous two games were excellent, especially part 3.

Now, back to the game. All I have to say is that this game does impress on a number of areas. The gameplay has been tweaked in a very interesting way. The game play is similar to 3, but this time, thy have allowed a lot of room to move vertically. Up and down, the ganeplay area probably covers 2 screens. Very cool stuff.

Visually, this is one of the fine examples of what the SEGA Genesis was capable of. This game is in the same league, graphically, as Shinobi 3, Hard Corps, Gunstar, and the Sonics. Lots of line scrolling and Parallax (things I like in my 16 bit games).


Weapons are great. We have good variety and they are mosty effective. I really enjoyed the weapon system in this game. Really good fun stuff.

Sound is good. The voice is grainey (like in all Genny games, really). Music stands out as something really catchy, but again, it is somewhat held back by the sound chip in the Gennny.

Pick up this game, I dont care how, and enjoy the fuck out of it. Uncle Rade sais so.

If you need any gameplay tips on Thunder Force 4, dont be afraid to contact me.
 

GoldeN Armz

Kuroko's Training Dummy
Joined
Apr 29, 2001
Posts
77
Lightening force has been in my nomad all week, im getting an ulcer trying to beat the damn game. It's definately one of my fav genesis shooters next to MUSHA and Truxton. I actually got two copies of it recently at babbages for $2.99 a piece!
 

Herzog Drei

Ace Ghost Pilot
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Sep 13, 2001
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1,300
Thx for the info,Rade! <IMG SRC="smilies/smile.gif" border="0">
I was searching for Lightning Force-didn't now it was just a different title for my all time Fav shooter on the Mega Drive!
You never stop learning something new in this hobby!! <IMG SRC="smilies/wink.gif" border="0">
 

Jackal

SouthTown StreetSweeper
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Oct 30, 2000
Posts
1,093
TF4 rocks. It has a lot more challenge than TFV- hell, it's the King of this series.

I've taken it down on just ONE ship- my score there is 6,245,540 in Normal. There's a substantial amount of bonus points that you can get for a "No Miss" game.
 
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