Rail Shooters

[Red]

I'm really enjoying this game. Really miss the style of rail shooters, grew up on House of the Dead, Time Crisis, Virtua Cop etc.

My first FPS game was on the Amiga 500 with Operation Thunderbolt. Really liked the game, spent plenty of time on it.

Any recommendations of other good rail shooters around these days?

[Spectrum Legacy]

Better late reply than none. I've enjoyed the blue estate too a lot, as I grew up on this type of arcade / lightgun shooters, or even on 8bit sinclair speccy and games like Operation Wolf.

On steam, there are not many games like this and that you know for sure. There is Rambo which you already have, but other than that I guess maybe IS defense, Epoch, Mad Bullets and also this pack perhaps http://store.steampowered.com/sub/80562/

However the quality varies across and I would say that perhaps the Blue estate is best one on steam. There is also Typing of the dead, but you type there!

[Red]

Awesome. Yeah I have Rambo, I have IS Defense and that triple pack (Heavy Fire) on my wishlist, guess I'm being tight but will buy these for sure. I'll check out the others, thanks.

Really upset with Typing of the Dead - i'd love a normal rail shooter not a typing game. Blue Estate arcade is great but the missions are just too short. If it had a neverevending kind of mode, survival/horde that would be great. But it's amazing in all ways, well worth the money and will have to revisit it again I know.

[Spectrum Legacy]

Yea well they are short games mostly...quickburst stages. Some dislike Rambogame for the production value that was not as high as expected and some expected free movement fps instead (also the game costed originaly around 40$ iirc which was an overkill, but licenses like this costs a lot). But if you got it during sales (I think i got it at 50% off and it was even 90% off at the end before it got pulled from the store), it was a steal I reckon despite game having some flaws. You can do some serious Ramboing in there! Both Rambo and Blue estate lasted me ~20h of gameplay, so there is some replay value if you go for challenges/ranks etc. Worth to revisit when in mood for some shooting.

I don't have Epoch nor mad bullets...but watched mad bullets being played by my friend and it looked like fun, slightly casual shooter (even kids friendly I think) for when you need a quick fix. But it's more on the casual side, feels quite tablet-ish. The tripple pack has 2 games by Teyon (rambo) and Reload is from local Slovak company. I remember they tried to make some kind of shooting simulation, training scenarios, stages etc. I don't have it yet myself though.

Typing of the dead I wanted too, before I realized it's really all about typing and not like the House of dead which I've expected somehow from the name. I can typewrite quite well, just it's not what I would expect the railshooter to be. Maybe on some decent sale I will buy it eventually at least to check it out myself.

Well there are not that many options left unfortunately...but tbh I find modern military fps from consoles too linear that they start to resemble the railshooters in some respect!

[BodyPolitic]

Hey,
This is probably not practical, but if you are a person who really loved rail shooters I'd suggest looking into one of the VR headsets. The motion controls recreate the lightgun experience while of course real 3D and immersion are off the scales.
There is one game in particular Bullet Sorrow, which really feels like a Time Crisis game done in VR, it's super fun on rails but with the coolness that you need to duck behind barriers yourself vs a button press

[Red]

Thanks for the tip - you know I've seen some amazing shooters in VR and I'm really getting interested in it now. I'm just not sure about which one to get because there are exclusives all over the place and I don't like that state of play. I'm hoping things will open up and be cross platform.

[that's what she said]

What's wrong with Typing of the Dead? It has complete on-rails zombie shooting 'House of The Dead: Overkill' included. It's right there in menu. Seriously, you won't be disappointed. I don't think anyone actually bought the game for typing, despite it's name the game is more of re-release of House of The Dead Overkill with typing being more like a bonus mode.

Also try Mad Bullets, the game is cheap and really addictive.

And yeah, if you are looking into shooters without proper movement - VR is your best bet (since it's one of the things VR actually suits well).

[Red]

Are you serious? I thought it was just typing game only?

[Johnny Fronthole]

I picked up Western 1849: Reloaded recently. It has a cartoony style, and a perk/upgrade system; so, not like a more traditional rail shooter - more like a gallery shooter, I guess. However, if you're looking for a similar fix, and see it on sale, it's pretty fun for what it is. Worth a look, at least.

[Red]

Thanks I'll check it out

[Corlain]

Originally posted by Redhotjets:

Are you serious? I thought it was just typing game only?

Yes, Typing of the Dead includes House of the Dead: Overkill DC. You just have to select it from the main menu.

[Spectrum Legacy]

I think I would mention it, as I'm thinking to get it as well. Typing of the Dead overkill collection is on sale now at HB: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/the-typing-of-the-dead-overkill-collection

[Red]

Thanks! Ka ching, bought it :) Was waiting for a sale.

[Spectrum Legacy]

No worries! I had to buy it as well... the collection had especially favourable price, compared to the base game. Let's wreck some zombuuu!

[darkstar/zx]

I really would like to have VR in this game but i do not think there is chance of that happening other than we get lucky and get separate full priced VR version like SUPERHOT or DLC but i doubt it :(

I heard mention of Operation Wolf and got nostalgic and then i remembered that there is great VR on rails "arcade games" :D It is called Operation Warcade VR which "emulates" 80's on-rails shooter arcade cabinets. Everyone who likes those and has VR get it right now! :]

http://store.steampowered.com/app/639270/Operation_Warcade_VR/

[Red]

Oh nice! That's one thing I'd like about VR. On rails would work reeeealy well with it. I'd personally love to see a revival of onrails shooters, like how arena shooters are getting back in fashion.

Yeah I think my first Amiga game was Operation Thunderbolt, which I believe was the sequel to Operation Wolf. I really enjoyed it, even though it was a bit hard. Technically it was a 'shooting gallery' game though.