Reviews

Whilst Ikari Warrriors was destined to become a defining classic shoot-em-up of the era, this sequel has never really lived up to expectations.

Whilst the fluid, responsive gameplay of the original game remains completely intact here, it's perhaps the setting which makes this game somewhat inferior to the original.

The sci-fi backdrop, of a starfield, doesn't really seem to work so well as it appears our Rambo-like heroes have acquired the ability to fight their way through the vacuum of space. It's particularly jarring that the wood and rope bridges and rocky dirt-tracks of the original game still permeate the foreground. These re-used graphical elements are presumably native to an Asian jungle, as opposed to interstellar space. My point being if you're going to commit to a sci-fi setting, then at least make it 100% sci-fi and not some uneasy mishmash of jungle and futuristic elements.

It's still a good game though, and for fans of Ikari Warriors, it's well worth playing, but for me that special magic of the original game has somehow been lost in this sequel.

1989 Imagine Software Ltd (UK)
by David Shea, Gavin Wade and Chris Edwards

A very worthy follow up to the fantastic action game that is 'Ikari Warriors'.
The game code seems the same, which is a relief, and if you liked the action of the prequel you will also like the sequel. A pity 'Commando' never had a follow up.

4,5 points

Surprisingly good..

At first just looks like Paradise Software and Ocean software were trying to take profit from the cool Ikari Warriors. Also the reviewer could go to blame for programmers laziness for use Ikari code as basics.

But the fact is that everything comes together rather nicely. Is a nice variant, and is not only a data-disk ( data tape ) from Ikari.

Ikari Warriors in space.
3,5/5