Electronic Theatre delivers an in-depth analysis of Rising Star Games UK release of Irem's PlayStation Portable exclusive strategy game, R-Type Tactics.

The R-Type franchise will be familiar to the vast majority of regulars here at Electronic Theatre. Whether you’ve invested a good twenty years in the videogames industry or picked-up a Control Pad for the first time on a PlayStation2, there will no doubt have been an R-Type - or one of it’s many partisans - lingering somewhere nearby. The series has seen that many outings that it’s highly possible that a gamer could own several titles under the same header, yet with each playing intrinsically different within their Side-Scrolling universe.

From the masterful Super Nintendo Entertainment System release of Super R-Type to that of the Game Boy Advance’s dismal attempt at recreating R-Type III in the palm-of-your-hand, numerous arcade releases...

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