The battles come quickly, and often, and the vast majority of your time playing as Epsilon-Eagle will be spent in figuring out the best way to dodge around and blast to bits the latest over-sized foe to lumber across the screen. The Boss Rush mode in some of the Gradius games is probably the closest comparison to how Alien Soldier is structured, because there's relatively little "normal level" content in the game that isn't a boss fight. Which aren't so much levels as they are straight-up boss battles with a bit of platforming preamble. Which is just as well, because the feeling of chaos simply continues into the gameplay, and doesn't dissipate a bit over the course of Alien Soldier's 25 levels. The customization options are nearly endless. The story's a nonsensical chaotic mess, to be truthful, and plays out at the beginning of the game in a far-too-long text scroll, and then is never seen again after the action begins. His quest is to deal out death and destruction against his former terrorist comrades and their new leader, Xi-Tiger. Epsilon-Eagle is the name of your gun-toting avatar this time around, and he's apparently some kind of reformed terrorist alien who's inhabited the body of a human-shaped bipedal bird, not unlike the Star Fox series' Falco Lombardi. If you wanted to play this one before present day in the USA, you would have had to import it from Japan or Europe, or have downloaded it through the short-lived SEGA Channel service. But, unfortunately, it was even more obscure in its original release – whereas Gunstar was tough to find in the States in cartridge form, Alien Soldier was nearly impossible to track down thanks to its lack of an official American release. It was also developed by Treasure, so it was a follow-up to Gunstar in many ways.
This is a game that plays very much like Gunstar Heroes, and finds appeal in much the same way – it's a side-scrolling action/shooter with tons of explosions, enemies, weapon types and maneuvers, and lots and lots of huge, impressive bosses to face off against.
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