Electronic Theatre offers an in-depth analysis of Tozai Games' Xbox LIVE Arcade conversions of iRem's Arcade classic, R-Type Dimensions, currently available for 800 MS Points for a limited time.

The 3D modernisations are quite simply beautiful. R-Type itself appears to have been made yet more challenging through the 3D representation, even though enemy placement, weapon strength and every other possible variable appears, at least on the surface, to remain completely untouched. Though R-Type retains the Boss characters famously associated with the series, R-Type II’s recreation here is infinitely more gratifying.

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