Raiden III: Digital Edition

Raiden III: Digital Edition is a scrolling shooter in which you fight back against an alien invasion. Its 3D scrolling system moves the scenery in three dimensions, including climbing, descending and vertical movement, while the camera points down toward your ship. The blue laser is a beam, unlike the lasers in earlier entries in the series.

Game modes

The game includes solo, dual and double play, along with Score Attack and Boss Rush. It also has Replay & Gallery and Option modes. In two-player co-op, you can use an exclusive beam attack when one player lines up in front of the other. In Double play, both players share lives and bombs, and continues are unavailable.

Seven levels

The seven levels take place across Earth and space: the first three are on Earth, and the remaining four are in space. Their designs draw on earlier Raiden games. The first three levels are particularly close to previous entries, with the first based on the original Raiden; the bosses also resemble those in corresponding levels of Raiden II and Raiden DX.

Display and music

Display options include windowed and full-screen modes, with adjustable zoom ratios of x0.5, x1.0, x1.5 and x2.0. The game also includes two CDs' worth of original soundtrack music, comprising 36 tracks.