Game of the Day - Gundhara

Gundhara is an Omni Shooter that owes a lot to others in the genre like Shock Troopers.  You choose one of two dudes and mount a Big-Ass Gun on your shoulder and go and fight enemy soldiers and rescue ultra-whiny kids.

The controls are typical.  The first button fires your weapon in the direction you are facing.  And, like in other games, if you hold the button down you lock the direction you are firing and can move around without screwing up what you are aiming at.  The second button is for hand-to-hand attacks and the third button is a super bomb/grenade.
 
The graphics are good, and you can blow up much of the surrounding crap.  Make sure to fire at everything because it may reveal more power-ups.  In fact, you can even shoot the kids you are supposed to be rescuing - and believe me, once you see and hear the little whiners - you'll want to blast them.  Speaking of power-ups, the usual suspects are here... You can get different weapons and/or power-up any weapon you have.  You can also collect more bombs/grenades.

In the second area, the game actually changes to a vert vehicle-based shooter.  You are on a motorcycle and shoot vertically only and vehicles come at you from above and below.  The graphics are nice and the action is good, but I don't like this kind of level near as much as the walk-around, omni shooter type.  Luckily, on the third level, it returns to the omni shooter goodness I love.

Difficulty can start to get pretty rough.  I can't even count how many times I got slammed right at the beginning of the third level.  The enemies are everywhere and the dudes that fight you are giant.  Be prepared for obliteration.

All in all, lots of good stuff.  Go blast some crap.