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Shock Troopers is a Vertical Scrolling run 'n' gun Shoot'Em Up game developed by Saurus and published by SNK for the Neo Geo arcade platform in 1997. A sequel, Shock Troopers: 2nd Squad, came out a year later. A third title was planned but never materialized. The gameplay is similar to games.

About This Game “SHOCK TROOPERS 2nd Squad”, the sequel to the NEOGEO fan favorite 2D action shooting game, returns to the missions on the Steam battlefield!Progress through the bullet hell, and put a stop to DIO's evil plans! Creativerse wiki.

US Title:Shock Troopers 2nd SquadJapanese Title:Shock Troopers 2nd SquadBy:SaurusYear:1998Size:514 MegsHome Release?YesMVS Release?YesCD Release?NoShockTroopers: 2nd Squad (MVS)byDan ElektroSometimessequels work out and sometimes they don't. For every Magical Drop III andMetal Slug 3, there's a Samurai Shodown III. Shock Troopers: 2nd Squadisn't quite that big a disappointment, but there are enough things thatfeel 'wrong' with this sequel that the original game outshinesit.Premise:TheShock Troopers return, fighting a new terrorist organization known as DIOfrom a top-down perspective. And while it's nice to have our heroes back,it would even nicer if they were, in fact, our heroes-none of theoriginal characters return for this second tour of duty, and there areonly four characters (Leon, Toy, Lulu, and the incredibly well-endowedAngel) instead of the original eight. (It's so hard to find good helpthese days.) You'll square off against DIO forces at a naval base, in thedesert, on city streets, and in plenty more places. Your goal'sclear-blow away everything in sight and bring down the bad guys, and graball the power-ups you can along the way for maximum points and maximumdestruction power.Gameplay& Control: 7/10Thesame fire-in-one-direction-while-walking-in-all-eight trick returns, so ifyou got good at it the first time, you'll have no problem adjusting.

Thebig innovation this time is that players can jump into tanks and assaultvehicles, armed with giant cannons and special weapons that make shortwork of road barriers and pedestrians. However, Saurus inexplicablyswapped the functions of the B and C buttons, so if you're used to theoriginal, you'll wind up throwing bombs when you want to leap out of theway. What possible purpose can this change serve? It's an annoyance.Graphics:6/10Thegraphics, too, seem to have been revised for the sake of revision.Characters are a bit more cartoonish now (please re-read the part aboutAngel's enormous bosom) and the game has less of a.serious look aboutit. (Note to future dictators: Do not try to take over the world withlarge-noggin soldiers that resemble plush toys.) Even so, the characteranimation is quite smooth and the explosions look even richer and morevibrant than last time. The game's biggest visual problem isslowdown-there are several times where there are just too darned manyenemies on the screen, and the pace simply crawls, crippling thegameplay.Sound/Music:5/10Ho-humaction-movie music is joined by death throes that sound uncannily like thebleating of seals. The announcer sounds like he's phonetically speakingEnglish (because he probably is) and characters have mediocrecatchphrases-Toy says 'Rock with the beat!'

While Leon mumblessomething about 'forgiveness on the battlefield.' But really,it's the seals that will get on your nerves.ReplayValue: 7/10Thereare multiple paths to choose from but less characters and less flexibilitythan the first game. Plowing through the levels with a friend is alwaysfun, however.Overall:7/10Thewhole of Shock Troopers: 2nd Squad is greater than the sum of itsparts-the game is more enjoyable than you might think, based on some ofthe criticisms. But as Lulu says, 'Who are you trying to kid?' This sequel isn't better than the original game, but it's an amusingdiversion all the same. And hey, it's better to have a halfway-decent,slowdown-plagued, throw-continuity-to-the-wind sequel to a deserving gamelike Shock Troopers than none at all.-MoreReviews of This Game:byby- Courtesy of Reviews.

Shock Troopers is a Vertical Scrolling run 'n' gun Shoot'Em Up game developed by Saurus and published by SNK for the Neo Geo arcade platform in 1997. A sequel, Shock Troopers: 2nd Squad, came out a year later. A third title was planned but never materialized. The gameplay is similar to games.

About This Game “SHOCK TROOPERS 2nd Squad”, the sequel to the NEOGEO fan favorite 2D action shooting game, returns to the missions on the Steam battlefield!Progress through the bullet hell, and put a stop to DIO's evil plans! Creativerse wiki.

US Title:Shock Troopers 2nd SquadJapanese Title:Shock Troopers 2nd SquadBy:SaurusYear:1998Size:514 MegsHome Release?YesMVS Release?YesCD Release?NoShockTroopers: 2nd Squad (MVS)byDan ElektroSometimessequels work out and sometimes they don't. For every Magical Drop III andMetal Slug 3, there's a Samurai Shodown III. Shock Troopers: 2nd Squadisn't quite that big a disappointment, but there are enough things thatfeel 'wrong' with this sequel that the original game outshinesit.Premise:TheShock Troopers return, fighting a new terrorist organization known as DIOfrom a top-down perspective. And while it's nice to have our heroes back,it would even nicer if they were, in fact, our heroes-none of theoriginal characters return for this second tour of duty, and there areonly four characters (Leon, Toy, Lulu, and the incredibly well-endowedAngel) instead of the original eight. (It's so hard to find good helpthese days.) You'll square off against DIO forces at a naval base, in thedesert, on city streets, and in plenty more places. Your goal'sclear-blow away everything in sight and bring down the bad guys, and graball the power-ups you can along the way for maximum points and maximumdestruction power.Gameplay& Control: 7/10Thesame fire-in-one-direction-while-walking-in-all-eight trick returns, so ifyou got good at it the first time, you'll have no problem adjusting.

Thebig innovation this time is that players can jump into tanks and assaultvehicles, armed with giant cannons and special weapons that make shortwork of road barriers and pedestrians. However, Saurus inexplicablyswapped the functions of the B and C buttons, so if you're used to theoriginal, you'll wind up throwing bombs when you want to leap out of theway. What possible purpose can this change serve? It's an annoyance.Graphics:6/10Thegraphics, too, seem to have been revised for the sake of revision.Characters are a bit more cartoonish now (please re-read the part aboutAngel's enormous bosom) and the game has less of a.serious look aboutit. (Note to future dictators: Do not try to take over the world withlarge-noggin soldiers that resemble plush toys.) Even so, the characteranimation is quite smooth and the explosions look even richer and morevibrant than last time. The game's biggest visual problem isslowdown-there are several times where there are just too darned manyenemies on the screen, and the pace simply crawls, crippling thegameplay.Sound/Music:5/10Ho-humaction-movie music is joined by death throes that sound uncannily like thebleating of seals. The announcer sounds like he's phonetically speakingEnglish (because he probably is) and characters have mediocrecatchphrases-Toy says 'Rock with the beat!'

While Leon mumblessomething about 'forgiveness on the battlefield.' But really,it's the seals that will get on your nerves.ReplayValue: 7/10Thereare multiple paths to choose from but less characters and less flexibilitythan the first game. Plowing through the levels with a friend is alwaysfun, however.Overall:7/10Thewhole of Shock Troopers: 2nd Squad is greater than the sum of itsparts-the game is more enjoyable than you might think, based on some ofthe criticisms. But as Lulu says, 'Who are you trying to kid?' This sequel isn't better than the original game, but it's an amusingdiversion all the same. And hey, it's better to have a halfway-decent,slowdown-plagued, throw-continuity-to-the-wind sequel to a deserving gamelike Shock Troopers than none at all.-MoreReviews of This Game:byby- Courtesy of Reviews.