Joy! Continuing its recent surge inremakesand re-releases on the digital marketplace, it’s looking like Taito is set to bring its classic arcade shooterRaystormto XBLA. There are two screenshots bouncing around on theNeoGAF forums, and if they’re not real then somebody undertook one hell of a Photoshop project. I think it’s safe to say we can expect this on Live Arcade before long.
From the looks of things, this is going to be another upscaling likeIkarugawas, using HD versions of the same models. Not a damn thing wrong with that, as the game already looked pretty decent as it was, and if you’re wondering whether the gameplay holds up twelve years later, I can tell you I just played the PS1 version about three weeks ago, and it certainly does.
Details are understandably scarce at the moment, but we’ll keep you updated when they start rolling in. In the meantime, you can check out the screens below, as well as a couple forRainbow Islandsback at the NeoGAFthreadwhich you might be decidedly less happy with. But hey, at leastRaystorm HDlooks awesome.
