Bangai-O HD: Missile Fury is a fun 2 player co-op shoot-em-up that Co-Optimus gave a solid 3.5 out of 5. The biggest barrier to our enjoyment was that levels were locked in the co-op mode unless the host player had already completed them alone! A new title update fixes this issue and opens all levels to play in co-op from the start.
Treasure’s growing catalogue of XBLA games increased by one last week with the release of Bangai-O HD: Missile Fury. Fun levels, but nothing that ties them together; a leaderboard that doesn’t feel too competitive, Bangai-O is more bi-polar than the Ikaruga ship. Even the co-op feels a bit divided…
Bangai-O HD: Missile Fury takes the series that started on the Nintendo 64 by Treasure and brings it to Microsoft's platform for the first time in all its HD glory. We sat down with Tim Ramage, the game's Executive Producer, to chat about the series and specifically the game's co-op mode.
