R-Type Command

It’s the most unexpected genre crossover since Virtua Fighter became an adventure game starring a bunch of punk kids, and it’s coming to the PSP. The latest issue,, Cont Below

Game Title:R-Type Command PSP Demo
Firmware Playstation Store
Region: America

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How To Install R-Type Command Free PSP Demo
1. Download the zip file left.
2. Extract the contents of the zip file.
3. Connect your PSP to your computer using a USB cable.
4. Go to the PSP/GAME folder.
5. Copy R-Type folder into the GAME directory. Make sure there are no sub-directories in this folder.

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It’s the most unexpected genre crossover since Virtua Fighter became an adventure game starring a bunch of punk kids, and it’s coming to the PSP. The latest issue of Famitsu has a first look at R-Type Tactics. That’s right, the classic shooting franchise has gone the way of the Final Fantasies, and Onimushas before it and is being reborn as a strategy game.

Like Wild Arms, Sony’s RPG franchise that’s also taking a strategic twist for its first PSP outing, Irem has opted for a hexagonal-based combat system. But the similarities appear to end there.

R-Type Tactics looks like a traditional shooting game, right down to the side-scrolling perspective and walls blocking your path. The difference here is that instead of freely moving about and blasting enemy ships, you take turns with the enemy, making careful movements over a grid. Perform an attack, and the game switches to an effect-filled attack sequence.

The side-scrolling perspective isn’t all you’ll recognize from the series. The game includes similar weapons as well as boss characters who will be instantly recognizable by hardcore fans. The “force” sub-weapons play a big part as well, adding extra power to your ship.

Modes of play include a single player mission mode and an ad-hoc-based battle mode for multiple players. We’re not sure at the moment if there’ll be a story mode wrapping an absurd storyline around the game, but fans will at least have an image gallery to look forward to.

Speaking with the magazine, producer Kazuma Kujo fielded the obvious question: why a strategy game? The answer, according to Kujo, is that the R-Type series came to an end with R-Type Final, so with the new game, Irem wants you to think “This is new.” Hopefully this doesn’t mean that R-Type shooting games will never return.

This surprising twist on a classic franchise hits the Japanese PSP later this year.