GameFan Magazine: "It has existed since the don of gamingdom: the plight of the fanboy. People arguing their favorite console’s version of a game is the best version until they’re blue in the face — or in the case of Nintendo fans, Italian plumber red. Now the score can finally be settled, as GameFan brings you the exciting new series Game Verses, the only show that pits multiple versions of games against themselves to find out, once and for all, who’s the king of the port pile. In our first episode, we put the flame to the feet for Galaxy Force II, Sega’s arcade shooter from 1988. The Genesis; the FM Towns; and the Sega Saturn are all in the ring, but only one can emerge victorious."
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Deprived of those most novel qualities, restricted to a compromised version made to work on the less-powerful Genesis hardware, and, now, removed 20 years from the era of its first arrival, there's little reason any more to pay attention to a game like this. Save your 800 Wii Points for other, better selections sometime in the future. Like, say, actual Virtual Console Arcade releases.
Presentation - 5.5
Graphics - 4.0
Sound - 6.0
Gameplay - 4.0
Lasting Appeal - 4.0
Overall -
NintendoLife writes: "Galaxy Force II debuted as a Sega arcade release, using the same type of sprite scaling seen in Sega's other arcade title Space Harrier, and basically mimicked 3-D scrolling without the use of actual polygon graphics. While Sega's Saturn console would later get a nearly arcade perfect rendition of the game, Mega Drive owners had to suffice with a less visually appealing home console port. The gameplay was still intact, and the soundtrack was accurately produced, but the visual flair that made the arcade release so impressive was greatly decreased and it hurt the end product's overall appeal massively, although it didn't help that the arcade release wasn't that great to begin with either."
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