You have four different shot types and each can be powered up three times by collecting ‘Pow’ icons. What’s cool is the weaponry at your disposal. You can adjust this to your liking which is a pretty handy feature. By default you are given four different speed options indicated by four bars on the top right section of the screen. Your goal is to reach the end boss of each stage and defeat these large menacing enemies soundly. You take command of the Bari Arm ship as you dodge enemies and their projectiles while returning fire. What we have here is your basic two dimensional horizontal scrolling shooter. With that out of the way it’s time to discuss the gameplay.
Android Assault does however get extra points for its fully voiced intro FMV which, aside from the soundtrack, is just about the only way the developers actually took advantage of the CD format near as I can tell. The scenario is nothing special and it’s extremely similar to just about every other shoot em up of this kind. This ship is all that is standing between the Jupiter colonies and total destruction, and the game begins this lone aircraft is sent out to do battle with the forces of Zias.
This is named Bari Arm which can use a multitude of different weapons and even has the power to transform into a mech. Thanks to research on this rogue force scientists are able to work on and eventually complete a ship capable of standing up to them. The story begins with colonists on the moons of Jupiter are under attack by an independent nation based off of the planet Saturn called Zias. Fortunately it’s actually a pretty decent shooter even though it lacks any real innovation and fails to take advantage of the hardware in any meaningful way.Īndroid Assault takes place in the year 2192 long after off-planet colonization has become a reality. So where does Android Assault: The Revenge of Bari Arm fit in, you may ask? While it is an exclusive release for the add-on it’s something that could have just as easily been done on the Sega Genesis with few features missing. It was a bit of a mess to be honest, but some such as Gamearts and Konami gave us titles so large in scope that they never would have been possible on a cartridge.
Some created ill-fated FMV titles for it, others made games that could easily have been done on the Genesis, and others took this a step further by porting previous releases on the base console with minimal enhancements. >When the Sega CD was originally released the biggest problem it faced was the fact that developers just didn’t know what to do with the exponentially larger storage medium.
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