Chaos Field

"If you are a diehard shooter fanatic obsessed with breaking high score lists Chaos Field will provide a relatively large playground for you to do your thing. The lack of two-player mode or online ranking simply seals the deal, proving once and for all that Chaos Field is simply outgunned as an arcade port. This isn’t an Ikaruga killer, though I seriously doubt it set out to be, and while it may have high and low points it simply is what it is. If you own only one shooter for the GameCube, make it Ikaruga. For the shooter-obsessed, however, buckle up for this one; it is one heck of a rush."

"The space shooter genre, sadly, is all but dead. Even the best space shooters out there, games such as Ikaruga, rarely get the acclaim that they deserve from the mainstream gaming public. And yet, there is a contingent of gamers out there who still enjoy these games, and for fans of the GCN within this contingent, they finally have a game other than Ikaruga with which to express it. While Chaos Field is not as stellar of a game as Ikaruga was, it is still a game worthy of the respect of those who enjoy games within the genre."

"This vertical-scrolling shoot-'em-up tries to follow in the footsteps of genre classics like Ikaruga and Raiden, putting its own interesting-but-flawed spin on some aspects of the you-against-the-universe formula."