Catalogue No. - T-15006G

Kaitei Daisensou or better known as In The Hunt was originally an arcade game by Irem however Irem ran in to a few financial problems in the early 90's which lead to this Saturn version being re-programmed by SIMS and distributed by Imagineer in Japan. Kaitei Daisensou is best described as Metal Slug with submarines which is no surprise really considering that the same designers behind Metal Slug were behind this classic shooter. The whole look to the game is beautiful with fine attention to detail going in to everything. Unfortunately all this detail does lead to quite a bit of slowdown. Still, it's a very solid shooter which you won't be completing in a matter of hours like some other shooters out there.

Quite a few people complained about the music in Kaitei Daisensou. Now while I don't find it that bad I can understand why some people aren't too keen on it and it seems that the programmers agree with them since they've given us an option to switch off the background music. As far as I know this is the only shooter ever to offered such an option.

A word of warning goes out to anyone thinking of buying this Japanese version of Kaitei Daisensou. It's known that quite a few copies of this game have a terrible time booting.  It seems that there was a bad press run of the game which wasn't recalled. While the game will load most of the time from the Saturn's CD player screen, it most certainly won't load from putting in the disc then powering up the Saturn.