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Treasure recently announced that its vertical shoot ‘em up title Ikaruga is headed to PS4 soon. We now have a release date of June 29, and it’ll come with 4K support for PS4 Pro and 4K monitors. As far as content codes, the game is a complete port of the Steam version of Ikaruga, which released in February 2014. Here are more details from its product page:
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Shoot! Dodge! and… Get Hit!? Ikaruga is a vertical shoot ’em up that features an unique polarity-switching gameplay. Switch the ship’s polarity and “get hit and absorb” enemy bullets! Achieve High Score with the chain bonus!
Key Features
- The player ship, all enemies and bullets are black or white. Player’s polarity can be switched at will.
- Your ship can absorb enemy bullets of the same polarity. Filled energy goes to fire powerful homing lasers! (Release Power)
- Defeat 3 enemies in a row of the same polarity and get the chain bonus! Building up high scores feels like a puzzle game?
- Spectacular 3D graphics. Fast and smooth game play.
- 2 Players game (Local) and Double Play Mode: You can play 2 Players game with one controller.
- 5 levels. Tactical level design and boss battles.
- 3 difficulty levels: EASY, NORMAL, HARD. Change your tactics depending on the difficulty.
- 2 Game modes: ARCADE, PROTOTYPE (not hidden).
- Replay data save is available. You can also download them from the Leaderboards.
- Vertical screen mode support. You can also play the game like a side-scrolling shooter by rotating only the game screen.
- Xbox360 controller, Keyboard and Mouse support.
Ikaruga released for arcades, Dreamcast, GameCube, Xbox 360, PC, and Nintendo Switch.
