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92%22492% positive reviews, Very Positive across 224 reviews·Shoot 'Em Up · Arcade
—Nationwide shooting fans, the wait is over! Following Sengoku Ace and Gunbird, the third installment in Saikyo's vertical scrolling shooter series!
Strikers 1945
SteamNationwide shooting fans, the wait is over!
Following Sengoku Ace and Gunbird, Saikyo's third vertical-scrolling shooter!
A hardcore shooter set during World War II.
Choose your plane from six real-world legendary fighters.
Diverse formation attacks with escort option planes.
Enemy forces feature numerous superweapons never deployed in actual combat.
・STORY・
Summer 1945. World War II ended. The world seemed to have regained a semblance of peace.
However, the mysterious international organization “CANY,” long rumored to be colluding with military high commands worldwide, secretly seized control of the military. They plotted to subvert the entire world from within using a new class of weapons that had never reached actual deployment.
The Allied Command Headquarters, quickly detecting the unsettling movements across nations, secretly assembled the world's finest fighter planes and their pilots. They formed the special forces unit, the Strikers, to oppose CANY.
Here, the curtain rises on the final world war, hidden in the shadows of history.
● 8-way joystick + 2 buttons.
● Buttons correspond to Shot and Bomb.
● Supports 2-player simultaneous play and mid-game joining.
● Power-ups occur in 4 stages; each stage equips one escort aircraft (up to 4 total).
● While escorts are present, charging the shot button enables unique formation attacks for each aircraft.
・Aircraft Introduction・
P-38 Lightning
SUBWEAPON: Homing Missile
FORMATIONI: Parallel Formation
BOMBBBBBB: 1-ton Bomb

P-51 Mustang
SUBWEAPON: Rapid-Fire Rockets
FORMATIONI: Shield Formation
BOMBBBBBB: B29 Support Bombing

Spitfire
SUBWEAPON: Heat Missile
FORMATIONI: Wide Formation
BOMBBBBBB: Fire Blade

Messerschmitt Bf109
SUBWEAPON: Search Vulcan
FORMATIONI: Drill Formation
BOMBBBBBB: Shu-Tsu-Ka Dive Bomber Squadron

Zero Carrier Fighter
SUBWEAPON: Drop-type Small Bomb
FORMATIONI: Wide Formation
BOMBBBBBB: God Wind

Shinden J7
SUBWEAPON: Large Rocket Shell
FORMATIONI: Assault Formation
BOMBBBBBB: True Samurai Sword

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