Played this for over two hours now.

It’s really, really great.

Slightly unpolished, sure, but the core gameplay is superb and the graphical design is excellent. There’s an excellent sense of scale and of actually helping to fend off an alien invasion.

Unlike Zombie Zone, which was great despite being fundamentally a little bit rubbish, this game is great because it’s fundamentally a great game.

Still not convinced?

Tarantulas the size of four elephants! Great striding war machines! Swarms of small UFOs! Great huge motherships! GODZILLA!

It’s got great enemies, yes. And you’ve got great weapons to kill them all. And the levels seems endless. And endlessly destructable.

There’s nowhere you can’t go and nothing you can’t blow up, as far as I can see.

It’s just superb.

Shame about the framerate, the Japanese language and the annoying “you’ve killed a big bad” camera, but they’re hardly worth worrying about in the general scheme of things.