I just picked up Raiden III for PS2 used.
It's pretty much what you expect. Game hasn't really changed since Raiden Trad on my Genesis. Except of course that all the backgrounds a 3D rendered now.
Game's pretty good. The only issue I have is that it kinda feels like you're flying through molasses. They should have upped the movement speed just a notch. But surprisingly, I still don't have too much trouble evading the bullets, mostly because the collision detection is extremely forgiving. You pretty much have to get nailed dead-on by a bullet to get destroyed. Normally you might complain, but because of the somewhat slow ship speed, the forgiving collision detection balances it out perfectly so the game remains playable and fun.
The game includes TATE mode. It actually includes 4 modes. Regular and TATE, and then a "wider" version of both.
Since I can't rotate the projector screen, what I did was put it in Wide-TATE mode, and then set the projector to 16:9 mode, so it made the playfield super-long, and then just lay down sideways on the couch and play.
It's pretty much what you expect. Game hasn't really changed since Raiden Trad on my Genesis. Except of course that all the backgrounds a 3D rendered now.
Game's pretty good. The only issue I have is that it kinda feels like you're flying through molasses. They should have upped the movement speed just a notch. But surprisingly, I still don't have too much trouble evading the bullets, mostly because the collision detection is extremely forgiving. You pretty much have to get nailed dead-on by a bullet to get destroyed. Normally you might complain, but because of the somewhat slow ship speed, the forgiving collision detection balances it out perfectly so the game remains playable and fun.
The game includes TATE mode. It actually includes 4 modes. Regular and TATE, and then a "wider" version of both.
Since I can't rotate the projector screen, what I did was put it in Wide-TATE mode, and then set the projector to 16:9 mode, so it made the playfield super-long, and then just lay down sideways on the couch and play.