R-Type Final
Like other games in the R-Type Series, the game is a scrolling shooter where you need to guide a spaceship through various stages and destroy the many enemies (including very large end of level bosses). The…
R-Type Final is an arcade developed by Irem, released 17 July 2003 on PlayStation 2.
What R-Type Final is
R-Type Final is an arcade game developed by Irem and released in 2003. It was published by Eidos Interactive. It is available on PlayStation 2 only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
In R-Type Final, your enemy is the Bydo, an evil (and living) weapon capable of reproducing itself. Humanity has fought the Bydo four times so far, and each time was victorious. However, each time the Bydo appears it is stronger than before, and now it's back and you need to destroy it again!
How it plays
Its themes are action and science fiction.
How it was received
R-Type Final holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 68% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored 11 points above the year average.
What it launched against
R-Type Final launched on 17 July 2003, within three weeks of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne, F-Zero GX and Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne, F-Zero GX, Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3.
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