Space Raiders Complete Game - GameCube Replay
2If you like Space Invaders you may like this game Space Raiders! Made by the original creators of Space Invaders. I enjoyed this game and its gotten a lot of negativity from what I have read online. Sure its repetitive with lots of different characters and types of bosses but I like shooters.. I played the Story mode so you have unlimited continues to finish the game and the Story mode lets you follow along with the characters backstory you chose to play with the cinematics which are good in my opinion.
A little about the game:
Space Invaders: Invasion Day, known as Space Raiders in North America, is a 2002 third-person shooter video game developed by Taito, a remake of the original 1978 Space Invaders arcade game from its creators. Re-imagined for the sixth generation home consoles, Space Invaders: Invasion Day takes the surface-to-air shooting action of the original title and puts it into a third-person urban street setting on the GameCube (Japan and North America) and PlayStation 2 (the latter only in Japan and Europe). This update features detailed opening cinematics of the alien invasion, story and survival modes, boss battles and three playable characters, each with their own backstory.
The playable characters include Justin (street teen), Ashley (fashion photographer) and Naji (police officer), and while they look different, all three play similarly. From a fixed height behind the character the player directs them to shoot at increasingly large waves of various aliens as they march down the street toward the character's position. Characters can move side-to-side as in the original arcade game, but also have limited movement both into and away from the screen.
Occasional power-ups become available giving the player temporary access to special weapons. Strategic use of power-ups is required as the variety of aliens and diversity of their attacks will not allow for the straight forward shooting of the original arcade game. The game contains six missions and can be completed in under two hours. A port of the original Space Invaders arcade game is included and unlocked by a cheat.
Developer - Taito
Publisher(s) - Taito (JP)
Mastiff (NA)
Sammy Corporation (EU)
Series - Space Invaders
Platform(s) - GameCube, PlayStation 2
Release - PlayStation 2
JP: December 19, 2002
PAL: September 5, 2003
GameCube - JP: January 9, 2003
NA: April 19, 2004
Genre - Third-person shooter
Mode - Single-player