| Thunder Force V | |
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 Sega Saturn cover art | |
| Developer(s) | Technosoft |
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| Director(s) | Naosuke Arai |
| Programmer(s) | Masaki Mutō |
| Composer(s) | Hyakutaro Tsukumo |
| Series | Thunder Force |
| Platform(s) | Sega Saturn, PlayStation |
| Release | Sega Saturn
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| Genre(s) | Horizontal-scrolling shooter |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Thunder Force V[a] is a horizontal-scrolling shooter video game developed and published by Technosoft for the Sega Saturn. The game was released in 1997, with the PlayStation port Thunder Force V: Perfect System[b] released in 1998. It is the fifth installment in the Thunder Force series and the last one created by Technosoft. The story revolves around a combat unit formed to fight against the Guardian supercomputer, which went rogue after deciphering the code of a space vessel. The player pilots a starfighter through a 2.5D perspective; the environments are rendered in three dimensions but the player moves in a 2D plane.
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