Strikers 1945 Plus

The player is back in the Air on the Battlefield of WWII and you have to choose one from 7 Legendary WWII air planes.

P-38 Lightning
Vought XF5U “Flying Pancake”
Spitfire Mk. VI
Focke-Wulf Ta152
Zero Type 52
Fiat G.56*
XP-55 Ascender (Hidden)*

(There are some exclusive* playable aircrafts in this game)

Each of these planes has a “Supershot”, this individual and unique weapon can save your skin! While the player repeatly pushes the A button a meter on the screen’s edge will fill up to certain point until a little Bomb flashes, this shows that the Supershot is ready to use. The Supershot is chared by destroying enemies and if the player is holding down the A button and then releasing it the Supershot will be activated.

The game is hard, even on the lowest difficulty settings. The Pink bullets are flying very fast and can be hard to dodge. People without experience will die very often because of this.

After the final boss is destroyed the game starts the 2nd playthrough, but this time it is much harder and the difficulty level goes through the roof in some levels. But a good gamer will master this.

The player is faced with a variety of different enemies like Tank destroyers, Armoured trains, Submarines, Giant Planes and Warships. Nearly all Bosses have something in common, they are hidding a Mech under their hood. If the player reaches a certain amount of damage the hull explodes and a Mech like robot will be reveald. This is the main Boss of the stage.

Strikers 1945 Plus is one of my favorite NEO GEO games and one of the Best on the system.
It’s always fun and challenging, and that’s what I love this game so much!

Conclusion: Strikers 1945 Plus is a very solid Shoot ’em up because of its legacy and origin.
If you like or love Shoot ’em up’s , then you have to play this game!