Yeah still playing this. It’s been the best 800 points I’ve spent on Xbox Live since Castlevaina: SOTN. Finally unlocked everything last night, including the excellent “Retro Mode” basically a filter to make it look pixelated but it’s a nice little extra.

Really it’s only highscores to beat now (and single credit the game, but I doubt I’ll work towards that) I’ll see if I can top my current feeble highscore of about 2.6 million and maybe move onto playing something else.

I’ve picked up a fairly obscure Xbox Live Arcade (XBLA) title called Omega Five, and it’s turned out to be a real gem. It’s kind of like a Hi-Def version of Forgotten Worlds (if you are old enough to remember that old Capcom classic) with elements of R-Type, and and a multiplier chucked in.

I like horizontal shooters, having a lot of love for R-Type and Gradius, now I’m not particularly good at them, OK at best but I’m a sucker for bright coloured lasers filling the screen with neon death. Omega Five isn’t a all time classic but for 800 MS points it’s a brilliant little title.

I mean look at the screenshot – what’s not to like!?