Matt Paddock writes:
''It was Longfellow that said, "...into each life some rain must fall," which sums up the feeling I had after playing R-Type Command. I didn't realize how much the glut of really good strategy and tactical titles for PSP recently had spoiled me, until fooling around with this game for a while. It isn't that the R-Type Command world is painted in dull colors or poorly imagined. The design elements of the game's ships, backgrounds, and cut-scene animations are actually real stand-outs. The designers did a nice job imagining what a classic shooter might look like if translated to tactical, field-of-battle perspective. What's missing is a lot of human character, the piece that makes titles like Jean D'Arc and Final Fantasy Tactics so compelling. There was a seriously missed opportunity when this game was conceived and some real human interest wasn't injected. Watching ships position themselves throughout the battlefield is good space-theater, but it wears off after a few battles. The writers did come up with a storyline that plays out through R-Type Command, but it never hits you in a visceral way.''
This game is a turn-based strategy game with a hexagon field, you move your units according to their stats. This game is by no means a pick up and play game.
The controls are not the issue in this game, the menus are crazy hard to understand and the objectives seem to be missing in action sometimes or disappear too fast for you to read it all.
WorthPlaying writes, "Atlus U.S.A. titles are always hard to find at retail, and is now offering a number of titles from its PSP library as digital download via PlayStationNetwork: Crimson Gem Saga, Hammerin' Hero, Yggdra Union, Steambot Chronicles Battle Tournament, R-Type Command, and Riviera: The Promised Land."
ATLUS should get its own PSN Publisher Store if they keep on pumping out games on the PSN. SO far, EA(EA SPORTS), Capcom and R* got their own store.
They should put Demons Souls on the PSN store. It may be a huge, expensive download but it beats never finding a copy of the game.
Looking back on the year that just was, it is somewhat difficult to choose a list of the year's best PSP games. Not because there were so many titles to pick from mind you, but because there were too few. Although Sony did experience a slowdown in sales of PSP software during 2008, the year was filled with some very high-profile quality releases. Grab a cup of egg nog, strap on the yuletide cheer, and get ready as we count down the best 10 PSP games of 2008:
