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Good old Technosoft who have now
disappeared have always been popular with Sega fans with their Mega
Drive Thunder Force games and other excellent titles such as Elemental
Master, Herzog Zwei and Devil Crash. Now they've brought their excellent
Thunder Force series to the Saturn. It's just a shame that their planed
Thunder Force 6 for Dreamcast never got released.
This version of Thunder Force V is the limited Special Pack as written
on the front. The game is the same as the standard version (as far as I
could tell) but comes with a great music CD titled "Best Of Thunder
Force" which featuring remixes from Thunder Force 1 to 4.
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 with using the hard ware 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.
The disc print on the Special Pack is also different than the normal
version of Thunder Force V as you can see below along with the music CD.
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