Caliber .50 Longplay (Arcade) [4K]
243Game Info
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Developer: Seta
Publisher: Seta
Year of Release: 1989
Game Review & Impressions
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Released in 1989, Caliber .50 is a run-and-gun shooter, viewed from a three-quarter top-down perspective. It looks and feels very much like Capcom's Mercs, which was a successor to Capcom's own Commando.
Unlike those games, Caliber .50 opts for an unconventional control scheme in an attempt to mix things up. Instead of moving and aiming with the regular 8-way joystick most cabinets used, Seta equipped the Caliber .50 unit with a rotary dial that controls your characters aim through 360 degrees. Enemies will assault you from all possible angles, so success revolves around -- pun intended -- getting used to this unconventional control method and blasting the bad guys before they overwhelm you.
Rather than simply collecting guns, new weapons are earned by collecting tokens which increase your player's health. Maxing out the health/armour bar will cause you to rank up, which causes your primary weapon to change. The starting rifle will magically change to a powerful bazooka, whilst the top tier bestows upon you a devastating flamethrower, perfect for all your charbroiling needs. There's also an assortment of grenades which you can lob, but the short range limits their effectiveness, and you'll usually be too busy fiddling with the controls to use them much.
Caliber .50 presents me with something of dilemma. On the one hand, it's a great-looking arcade blaster, chock full of explosions and plenty of action, but on the other, it's way, WAY too difficult. This would have been a tough game with a standard 8-way joystick, but the onslaught of opponents and projectiles you'll face, coupled with the finicky controls, turns this into one of the most brutally difficult coin-op experiences your likely to face.
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Video Notes
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Chapters
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00:00 Attract mode
1:00 Main Game
11:14 Ending
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