Some games are re-released and you experience the magic all over again. Gunstar Heroes is not one of those games.
User Rating: 6.5 | Gunstar Heroes X360
It's very hard to say much about Gunstar Heroes. In it's time it was great. It is still good today but this definitely won't leave the same impression to someone who has already played it or highly impress someone who hasn't. As a side scrolling shooter with two player functionality, this is what you would call a middle ground run and gun game. Almost as good as Metal Slug, and it's definitely no Contra. All the fun power-ups you would expect are there, the clever level design is there, but the challenge and depth are not. There are only a few powers that won't make you blaze through this game in an instant. With only five or six levels, it can be completed in an hour or two, the bosses are mostly easy save for the last few. The entire value of this game, albeit 400 Microsoft Points, will be exhausted in an hour or two.
It's not worth buying, but it definitely makes me think they should start charging less for some games on the Xbox Live Arcade. Six dollars never felt like too much until I bought Gunstar Heroes. Unless you're gonna be interested in trying to climb the leaderboards with your score or do speed runs of this game, or you and/or a friend are just THAT nostalgic to pick it back up, there isn't much reason to come back to memory lane with Gunstar Heroes.
