Marc Golding Writes: Jupiter colony Metis One is in trouble; facing attack from some unknown alien danger, Earth's greatest ship has been sent to repel the threat. Actuator Games are off to a great start with some of the freshest shoot-em-up writing I've seen to date. Metis One is a top-down shooter that reminds me somewhat of the old, sort of classic, Xevious. But Xevious for all of its blandness today, initially did something special: it helped pioneer the two-plane shooter (no, not two airplanes, two planes on which to wage battle). Airborne foes get the guns, ground targets get the bombs. Elementary stuff now, but special stuff in its day, and surely responsible for more modern sort of classics like Raystorm and its ilk.
