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Battle Squadron: The Destruction Of The Barrax Empire

Available Platform: Amiga - Alias: Battle Squadron

Battle Squadron: The Destruction Of The Barrax Empire is the successor of one of the most popular vertical scrolling shooters for Amiga, Hybris.

Year1989
GenreShooter
Rating4.5

90/100 based on 7 Editorial reviews. Add your vote

PublisherInnerprise Software
DeveloperCope-com
OS supportedWin7 64 bit, Win8 64bit, Windows 10, MacOS 10.6+
Updated31 July 2020

Game Review

Battle Squadron: The Destruction Of The Barrax Empire is the successor of one of the most popular vertical scrolling shooters for Amiga, Hybris. It was developed by Cope-com and published by Innerprise Software in 1989 for the Amiga, with a Genesis version released one year later.

Hybris was already excellent, but Battle Squadron is definitely one of the best vertical shooters for the Amiga and probably one of the best for any platform. The quality is comparable to a real arcade, with graphics that you won't believe are generated by a non-AGA chipset, amazing music, and superb gameplay.

Great level design, tons of power-ups, and last but not least, the co-op mode for 2 players makes this game simply perfect.

Amiga Computing decided to give this game an impossible rating of 109%, exceeding the maximum rating of 100%, and all the other magazines gave between 80 and 90.

If you haven't tried it yet, the time has come!

Review by: GN Team
Published: 16 December 2017 9:31 am



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Latest Comments

  • jesusgwork - 2020-02-19 - Reply

    Hello,
    Thanks for all these great games! One question, when I run battle squadron, it gives an error in display initialization. Any idea how to fix this?