Gun Raven is yet another shooter, with all the standard bells and whistles. You move around in two directions and fire up the screen at the enemies. This is one of those shooter games that could be quite good if it had a decent gimmick, or something to set it appart from the crowd, but unfortunately it doesn't. I won't go into to detail about the mechanics of the game play because it all the bog standard stuff, but I will elobrate on its good points and its flaws.

Gun Raven suffers from it almost amateur feel to it, the graphics and sound are pretty poor by today's standards, even for an independant shooter game. That said it does have a certain old school arcade charm to it, which is mainly down the retro sound effects. The enemies do have some nice, interesting movement patterns, and killing things is rewarding (which is a lot more than can be said for most of the other billion shooters out there). There are also some nice score bouses which adds a little bit of a goal to the game. The bosses in Gun Raven are quite boring, they pretty much just stay pefectly still and shoot random things at you, with no real pattern to their firing. Most galaga games at least have nice bosses!

At the end of the day Gun Raven is a shooter you might want if you have already completed the very best of them (Alien Shooter, Ultra Assault, Star Monkey, Airstrike etc), but to the average gamer there is much better on offer.

Score: 5/10
You can find Gun Raven at www.aggressivegames.com