home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!noc.near.net!nic.near.net!oliveira
- From: oliveira@nic.near.net (John Oliveira)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.video
- Subject: SNES & Genesis games Impressions
- Date: 28 Dec 1992 15:55:17 GMT
- Organization: NEARnet, Cambridge, MA
- Lines: 96
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <1hn815INNiq3@noc.near.net>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: nic.near.net
-
- I hope everyone had a nice Holiday and that Santa was able to surprise you all.:-)
- During the Holiday we got the change to rent some games for both the SNES and
- the Genesis.
- Below is just the impression we got from the following games.
-
- SNES games:
-
- Spiderman and XMEN:
-
- The object of the game is to save one of the Xmen from Arcadia.
- YOu first start with Spiderman in the first level to retrive what it look like
- time bombs. Once you do that than you have the option to choose one of the XMEN.
- Each XMEN has two levels to complete including Spiderman, he also has 2 levels to
- complete.
- Wolferine has levels with bunch of clowns.
- Storm is underwater, Cyclops is under a cave and Bambit I can't remember which
- level he has.
- This game didn't attract us that much, the gameplay just wasn't there. I hated
- when you loose all your men you have to go to the beginning, theres no continues
- or level select. THe graphics weren't that great and the characters were to small.
- I would recommend renting this game before purchasing.
-
- Chuck Rock:
-
- Chuck Rock is a caveman who has to rescue his wife that has been kidnapped.
- The graphics and the background were really nice, I though it was even better
- than the Genesis version.
- The only drawback of this game was that Chuck Rock doesn't have the option to
- use a weapon to strike at the enemies. His only weapon is his stomach and a jump
- kick. There times that I wish he had a weapon since I found certain levels to be
- frustrated, but overall this game was reall fun. I forgot to mention that he can
- pick up rocks and use that as a weapon but that wasn't enough for me..:-)
- Overall this game was fun, I would recommend to rent it first.
-
- Dead Valley Ralley:
-
- This was by far the best game that we had rented. We had so much fun with this
- game.
- The object of the game is for Road Runner to get all these flags. They range from
- yellow, green, red and I think purple. I guess different colors of the flags means
- higher points.
- Sunsoft did an excellent job on this game, the graphics and backgrounds were top
- notch. It was just like watching a cartoon, there were many times we were laughing
- at the humor they put into the game, specially when Willie E. Coyote was chasing
- the road runner and he falls from the cliff, he looks at you and his body falls
- while his neck streches than boom he falls down. And on the hot air ballon when
- Road Runners steps on it the ballon breaks and it flows through the screen and
- you see Coyotes neck streches with the flow than boom, you see him fall its the
- ground and the smoke comes up, it was just hillarious.
- We though this game was more fun than Sonic2 and the Road Runner was as fast as
- Sonic if not faster.
- The only part that was a little frustrating to get use to was how to control
- Road Runner, he semmed to be to sensitive to the control but once you get the
- hang of it than he will be easy to control.
- I would highly recommend this game.
-
- GENESIS games.
-
- TMNT Hypezone:
-
- I already own the SNES version and I wanted to check to see if the game play
- on the Genesis version was different, but I guess wrong.
- I though it was almost indentical to the SNES version, I though the SNES version
- was a little better. I miss the fact than when the Turtles was able to throw the
- foot soldier at the screen. While playing the game I was expecting that I could
- do that but I kept forgetting that I was playing the Genesis version.
- Its a great game and also way to easy just like the SNES but I guess I prefer the
- SNES version.
- I would reccomend to rent this game.
-
- Ecco the Dolphin:
-
- The object of this game is your a dolphin in search for his family.
- The graphics and background were really nice but this game just didn't attract us
- at all.
- We played for about an hour and there were times that I just wanted to put the
- game away but we wanted to give it a change to see if the game would get better
- but it was just plain boring.
- Some people will like this game but we though it was just plain boring and not
- that great.
- Maybe it wasn't my style of a game, I would reccomend to rent this game first.
-
- Street of Rage 2:
-
- This was the second game that we had fun with, this version was way better than
- SOR1. The characters were much bigger and improved and graphics were really nice.
- I like the option of one on one not as good as SF2 but not bad.
- We managed to finish the game in normal but will try harder next time.
- During the game we experience some serious flickers bad enough that it would make
- the character dissapear, specially when you have about 6 to 8 characters on
- screen.
- It affected the gameplay some of the time, we also saw a little Slowdown in which
- it was a surprised to us.
- Overall Sega did a good job on this game, I would highly reccomend this game.
-
- John
-