Shooter Games are one of the things the Sega Saturn is genuinely for. The ones worth playing start with Radiant Silvergun, Panzer Dragoon Zwei, Virtua Cop.
The 2D powerhouse that arrived the year 2D stopped selling. Its library is the best-preserved argument for sprites, and much of it never left Japan.
This is one of its strengths. Shooters and fighting games — Radiant Silvergun, Virtua Fighter 2, Guardian Heroes — plus a strategy and RPG streak that is genuinely unlike anything else.
Filtering to shooter means you want the guns to be the answer. It is the right filter when what you liked was the feedback — the sound, the recoil, the way enemies react.
Follow the link for hand-written recommendations if you want more like it.
Follow the link for hand-written recommendations if you want more like it.
Follow the link for hand-written recommendations if you want more like it.
Follow the link for hand-written recommendations if you want more like it.
Moment-to-moment feel, and the shortest distance between picking a game up and enjoying it.
Variety. Shooters commit hard to one loop, and the ones that try to be something else usually do the something else badly.
Radiant Silvergun is the usual first answer, and there are 4 in the library we cover.
Yes — it is one of the things the machine is known for, and there are 4 in the library we cover.
How the guns sound and how enemies react to being hit. A shooter with mediocre levels and superb weapon feedback is more fun than the reverse, every time.
Each pick says. Several of the best shooters ever made are single-player campaigns, and a few of the co-op ones are genuinely worse with bots.
From the games this site covers on the Sega Saturn, matched against hand-mapped gameplay categories rather than a storefront's genre tag. A page only exists where there are at least four, which is why some console and genre combinations have no page at all.
Or browse the whole Sega Saturn library.