Developer Irem has left behind R-Type's fast-paced shooter action for the slowest genre available – strategy. Using a left-versus-right 2D hexagon battle system, players command a fleet of recognizable classic ships against the Bydo armada. While the brief 3D attack animations look nice, the fact that you have to wait through a load every time will have you turning them off after the first battle.
Combat is suitably deep, but eventually grows stale later in the campaign. If you dig R-Type and strategy (or just the latter), Command definitely does the trick, but shooter fans are better off waiting for the next one.
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:
