Arcade Archives: Life Force
Arcade Archives: Life Force is a port of the shooting game Life Force. The player will challenge against the aggressions from the Bacterian special force known as Salamander. This title will include Salamander…
Arcade Archives: Life Force is an arcade developed by Konami, released 27 November 2015 on Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.
What Arcade Archives: Life Force is
Arcade Archives: Life Force is an arcade game developed by Konami and released in 2015. It was published by Hamster Corporation. It is available on Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Arcade Archives: Life Force is a port of the shooting game Life Force. The player will challenge against the aggressions from the Bacterian special force known as Salamander. This title will include Salamander which is the Japanese version of the game, and Life Force which is rearranged as the Japanese version of Life Force that was released in 1987 in Japan.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Gradius series
Arcade Archives: Life Force is the 52nd of 54 entries we hold in the Gradius series. It arrived 10 months after Arcade Archives: Gradius. The next entry was Anniversary Collection Arcade Classics in 2019. Its critic score of 72 is 4 points below the series average of 76. The highest-rated entry is Gradius V at 85.
How it was received
Arcade Archives: Life Force holds a critic score of 72 out of 100. That places it above 46% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 3 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Arcade Archives: Life Force launched on 27 November 2015, within three weeks of Fallout 4, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Star Wars Battlefront and Just Cause 3. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Fallout 4, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Star Wars Battlefront, Just Cause 3.
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