Iridion II

Iridion II is an ancient game from 2003. It's a whopping 20 years old at the time of this review. The game lacks support for any modern gaming display resolutions (or widescreen monitors), hasn't been modernised or updated to run smoothly on modern gaming PCs. Despite this lack of modernisation, it carries a pretty high price tag for such an ancient game. This seems to have been put on Steam as a nostalgia gouge. This handheld console (Gameboy Advance) ported game is meant to look like a 3D version of Galaga/Space Invaders/whatever, so not really pushing the envelope, despite this being 20 years newer than Asteroids. It's advertised as having 3D graphics but this is only a rudimentary effect, raster images/sprites displayed over an ultra simplistic, ultra low poly 3D framework. As a rail shooter, you can move your little ship left or right but there's no true 3D gameplay. just fight waves of enemies as they come at you. Galaga from a different perspective... but what do we expect from console games? From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. There's no option to change the resolution and no useful…

An easygoing shmup for the Game-Boy Advance that has a soundtrack among the best of the system, and also an impressive presentation overall. Game-play wise it offers a good ammount of content with 15 stages, but it is a slower paced and more of a traditional shooter in its design, with some memorization heavy sections but nothing really notable other than the the boss rush mode in terms of challenge; also a handful of tunes can become too repetitive like the one for the bosses.

I like this game, as this is a digital version of the GameBoy Advance title. The graphics, the music (oof, the music!), the gameplay, the bosses, the planets (really cool colors :D), everything in this game is awesome and I'm glad I have this title once more :'D

One of the best shoot em up ever made, the boss of the software house is a talent like Chris huelsbeck, and the track already prove it. Incredibile super render shooter, last shooter of the Golden age

Still great, although a basic port. It would have been nice if the graphics had been updated in resolution a little whilst still keeping a degree of crunchy pixel goodness.

Game is not bad gameplay wise but figuring out controls is a pain in the a**. there are 15 levels that can be completed in about 2 hours. The levels are relatively short and not too hard, i quite enjoyed my time with it.