Galactic Attack is a top-down shooter, there are seven levels to play, ranging from battles in the atmosphere of planets to battling over mountain ranges, each with their own standard huge bosses at the end of each of these levels. The player takes control of a starfighter called the RVA-818 X-LAY, out to destroy any opposing forces.

The story has the future of Earth governments gathering together to construct a massive super computer called Con-Human to help with the planet's environment, providing nutrients to the earth and caring for the ecosystem. However, a cloned human is linked with the system and makes Con-Human a sentient being. The system eventually becomes insane and starts to create natural disasters, wiping all nearly all of mankind and destroying the ecosystem, driving the survivors into space to develop colonies on other planets. Con-Human then makes Earth into a giant fortress and is assembling a massive armada to destroy the remaining survivors, but before it can attack, the survivors amass a first strike in order to reclaim the Earth.

The goal is to fly around in the level, using the primary laser weapon to destroy various enemies flying in and out of the screen. Players can upgrade this weapon by collecting "L" icons floating around when enough enemies are destroyed. There is also a secondary weapon, a lock-on missile launcher, that has the ability to fire upon eight different ground enemies at once.

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Galactic Attack Windows The game loads to this screen.
Press the START button to go straight into the game. There are no setup / configuration options. The game demo kicks in if nothing happens

Galactic Attack Windows This is what the ship looks like

Galactic Attack Windows Ahead of the ship is a laser lock, pass this over a target and the game locks on the secondary weapon to destroy up to eight at a time

Galactic Attack Arcade Title Screen (Japan Version).

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Alternate Titles

"RayForce" -- Japanese arcade title / iPhone title
"Layer Section" -- Japanese Saturn title / European Windows title
"Gunlock" -- European arcade title
"レイヤーセクション" -- Japanese Saturn spelling

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Critic Reviews

Retro Gamer	SEGA Saturn	Mar 30, 2006	94 out of 100	94
GameFan Magazine	SEGA Saturn	Oct, 1995	87.3 out of 100	87
Computer and Video Games (CVG)	SEGA Saturn	Nov, 1995	86 out of 100	86
GamePro (US)	SEGA Saturn	Mar, 1996	4 out of 5	80
Hobby Consolas	SEGA Saturn	Feb, 1996	79 out of 100	79
Mean Machines	SEGA Saturn	Feb, 1996	75 out of 100	75
Mega Fun	SEGA Saturn	Dec, 1995	72 out of 100	72
Video Games	SEGA Saturn	Oct, 1995	62 out of 100	62
Mean Machines	SEGA Saturn	Dec, 1995	60 out of 100	60
The Video Game Critic	SEGA Saturn	Jul 31, 2005	C+	58