DJ Brannon said:
I'm still waiting for The Red Star...
The Red Star is out there, somewhere. I happen to have been given a copy...
Alas, it's never going to be officially released, but in some ways that justifies 'acquiring' it magically off of the internet. The developers made the game to be played and enjoyed, they're never going to make any cash of it anyway, so I say, in this instance, don't worry about copyright issues. The copyright owners are bankrupt anyway.
It's a shame that this happened though, cos The Red Star is an excellent game that I would certainly have purchased. It's not dissimilair to Spikeout, but with a few twists of 2d shmup thrown in there as well. If you can imagine a flashier, gutsier version of Millenium Soldier on the DC, you'd be along the right lines.
The big annoyance IMO is the fact you can't use an arcade stick on a game that feels so arcadey. Still, it never quite vaporised, so go track it down
And on another note WTF happened to BC? Lionhead said it wasn't getting an Xbox release becasue of escalating cost/diminishing ambition, then a few days later, they got given a considerable financial rescue package and made noises about Xbox 2 developments. Has anyone heard if BC is back on the books for next gen? I can only assume it must have been a key title in the eyes of their new investors...
I hope it is anyway, cos a BC preview was one of the major reasons for me buying a boX in the first place : (