Catalogue No. -  T-1811G

Good old Technosoft who have now disappeared have always stayed with Sega from when they brought their excellent Thunder Force series to the Mega Drive and now to the Saturn. It's just a shame that they never made any Dreamcast games. Anyway, Thunder Force V is a mix of traditional 2D shooting action mixed with some very nice 3D action. Technosoft have produced one fine game here on the Saturn using the hardware very well. TFV features such "Saturn can't do" effects as coloured light sourcing, 3 level transparencies and some amazing uses of polygons mixed with 2D sprites. TFV was also released on the PSX but believe it or not the Saturn version is much better. It's faster, more transparencies (YES THIS IS NOT A MISTAKE !!) and faster loading that you can't really notice. The PSX does have smoother textures but I'd go for the Saturn version any day.