Any shmup fans?

[super_etecoon]

SegaHeart said:

super_etecoon said:

Are there any open world Shmup games? Or are they all side scrolling/top down, linear games? Is that part of the genre is for them to be on rails?

The 3D shmups are called On Rails.

I suppose I should have put "On rails" in quotes.  I was using it as a blanket term to differentiate it from a map that you could move freely in a large space.  All the shmups I remember seem to take place on at most a screen width or length.