Fire Shark is a top down view shoot em up on the Sega Genesis. It was originally released in the Arcade in 1989 in Japan and then 1990 in North America. The Sega Genesis port was developed by Toaplan and published by Dreamworks. Fire Shark is a sequel to Flying Shark.
If you love top down shoot em ups, this game is right up your alley. The story behind the game has you in the year 19X9, on an alternate Earth. S Corps, which specializes in heavy industrial armies begin invading various countries. You must pilot a super powered World War II plan through 10 levels blasting away a variety of enemies and save the alternate earth. You get some power ups that make you more powerful, on top of that, you have bombs you can drop on your enemies to wipe them off screen.

The graphics are awesome looking, well designed especially on a 16 bit console, the game runs smooth, doesn't glitch or flicker. It does look better in the arcade, but for being on the Sega Genesis, I can't complain. The music is bad ass, and very well composed, it fits the game perfectly, and it is something I expect in a game like this. The sound effects are nice as well. The controls work great, using your primary weapon, and bombs is very simple to do, they respond very well, nothing I can complain about.

Fire Shark is a bad ass shoot em up, it's not a bullet hell shooter, and it's not impossible, hell I can get quite far, you are gonna die at times unless you are really good at shoot em ups, but the game is a classic, the graphics are awesome, the music and sound effects are damn good, the story is nice, the controls are great, the only thing I wish is that the game was a bit longer, maybe 2 to 4 more levels, but other then that, definitely pick up Fire Shark!

If you want to watch my video review, you can check it out here below.