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WELCOME TO THE GOLDEN AGE of
Dreamcast. PS2 launched this
month, with pretty disappointing results. A couple of good games, but nothing that really set the world on
fire.
I’m glad
I
Hah. can’t say the
same
about Dreamcast. Right now, we are standing on the absolute peak of the
golden age of Dreamcast gaming.
We’ve
that magic
hit
system’s
life
when
it
moment seems
in
every
like (with
a couple of rare exceptions) every
developer, on every project,
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is
hitting
on all cylinders and delivering legendary gameplay experiences on
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DEMOLITION RACER: NO EXIT 99 Destruction derby-esque racing all
done
good-like
imaginative
FERRARI F355 xactly
Is it
Is it really
this hard to drive
Acclaim’s franchise lands
does
it
in
the heap, but
have enough to come out on top?
The
little
green
And
men oh,
is
are back! Oh, god, are
JEDI
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BATTLES 106
terrorists in its
arcade conversion
It’s
TO THE EXTREME! But
is it
extremely good or extremely crap?
JEDI
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for
Dreamcast:
Championship, WWF Royal Rumble, Nightmare Creatures 2, Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future, Airforce Delta, Hidden & Dangerous, Bust-A-Move 4
Yoda shakes
his
head
And
this
month we’ve got break-
ing news— and/or demos [cough*Tony 2/*cough]—on all of them. Next month? Half-Life. Quake III.
Skies of Arcadia. Grandia
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All night.
afford. Sell your blood.
Whatever. This, right now, ing
is all
about.
And
if
is
what gam-
you’ve got a
Dreamcast, you are about to experi-
“Cheeeeese! Take the
ence some of the most brilliantly designed and flawlessly executed games in the history of mankind. Enjoy yourself.
NFL BLITZ 2001 99 football
POWER
come
ITS CODE TACULAR!
Todd McFarlane’s undead warrior on DC
Chris glad...
kind that only
lives.
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DEMON’S HAND
Game Boy—the
once every two or three years, and that people talk about for the rest of their
games
a sports car?
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what you’d xpectfrom Genki’s
ARMY MEN:
5
CODES THAN YOU CAN SHAKE A GAMESHARK AT!
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street racing sequel?
they back.
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mankind passed
for
Disc Guide
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into extinction in, say,
around twelve minutes, the
Official
means, dear reader, that once you’ve played
Dreamcast Magazine Demo Disc
safe— like
in
your laundry
hamper-so
it
this
some
spanktabulous
to your heart's content, you should store
can be dug out with a trowel
Perhaps alien archaeologists who recover this disc it
footprints he'd leave
time immemorial would be shaped by Arby’s restuaurants, Pauly Shore movies and
pretty cool technology. This
in
understand
will
it
somewhere
a few thousand years.
importance. After
its
all,
A
gave Dreamcast owners the most exclusive, sneakiest peeks at the shooting Sermon on the
Mount Silent Scope. ..the beauty of StarLancer... and the called •
(in
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater
This disc
about 40
surprised
is
guaranteed to bring you instant popularity and possibly even a seat
years).
if it
sheer, life-giving joy of a
And the
Web Browser 2.0
is
so powerful
practically
it’s
keeps you from stubbing your toes or walking out the door
And remember, please share and minutes and counting),
little
ditty
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2.
enjoy.
we’ll return next
In this
the Senate
omnipotent-don’t be
mismatched socks.
Should we survive the coming conflagration (eleven
month
with even
ARMY MEN: SARGE’S HEROES PUBUSHER Atten-Hut!
in
in
war of
more
disc-olicious flavors.
MIDWAY RELEASE DATE NOVEMBER PLAYERS
plastic toy soldiers there
SILENT SCOPE PUBLISHER KONAMI RELEASE DATE OCTOBER PLAYERS
1
No-goodnik terrorists want shooting and
can be only one
winner and many, many melting corpses. Guide the tough but lovable toy
Sarge through a series of cartoonish safe for miniatures.
War
is hell,
killing fields
a pretty big gun that wants
as he makes the world
comes
Sarge, but at least this one
with
Move D-Pad: Map/View Change
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trigger.
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turn,
spawned
this
sharp
© Move © Move
Aim
Weapon
Right
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Left
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This cool kart-racing utterly violent
mad dash
Stick: Steer
D-Pad: Map/Missile Select
Attack
shamrocks,
(what else?)
© Fire Laser
game features all
of
cartoon icons as they strap on
to the finish line. Players
invincibility
Acme
Warner
Acme
Bros, well-loved
1
Move Vehicle/Steer D-Pad: Move Vehicle/Steer
1
the form of the beautiful PC port
in
sorts of strange
© Fire Missile © Options © Options
into this
Accelerate
ACTIVISION
RELEASE DATE NOV PLAYERS
of breathless, soaring fun
lot
demo’s two-minute-run free skate
sailing into
Brake
<|J
Rest assured, Activison has packed a
and
rocket blasters for a
can pick up wacky powerups such as and remote controls which trigger
option.
Send
His Tony-ness
the blue yonder, performing cool and possibly bone-shattering
tricks without fear of spilled blood or wailing sirens.
holes,
Hawk's Pro Skater was
© Use Item © N/A © View Change
all
TONY HAWK’S PRO SKATER 2 PUBUSHER
falling anvils.
Stick:
Dreamcast,
and unusual enemies in two excellent demo missions. It’s all very fun and cathartic, a therapy much recommended by Buck Rogers and that Luke Skywalker kid...
Jump
PUBUSHER INFOGRAMES RELEASE DATE NOV PLAYERS
to
Weapon
Fire
shoot the bejeezus out of
© Move Forward
LOONEY TUNES SPACE RACE
title lets
In
StarLancer. Players can strap themselves into a power space fighter to
first-
some snappy mazes, killing all sorts of monstrous beasties. We recommend getting rid of that puny blade and trading up for some rapid-fire goodness. person shooter. Players get to run through
D-Pad: Change
©N/A ©N/A
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Grizzled rock band KISS was the inspiration for Todd McFarlane’s
© Move Back
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Out
STARLANCER PUBUSHER CRAVE RELEASE DATE OCTOBER PLAYERS
KISS PSYCHO CIRCUS: nightmare child
Stick:
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in
know that you have
Keep a clear eye on the scope and an steady hand on the Remember, it’s not a true kill, either, unless it’s a head shot.
Stick:
comic, The Psycho Circus— which has,
1
nice to
its
This first-person perspective
vigilant.
med-kit powerups. Dis-Missed! Stick:
firing.
would-be heroes snipe away at the nastiest creeps everywhere. Be
©N/A
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D-Pad: Move Character
brilliant,
but this one
The
may well
Move Character
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L£>
original
put
it
to
Tony
shame.
Rotate Rotate
© Jump
'
This San Francisco treat us,
lets players drive four
go with the moped) through a series of
unique vehicles
beautifully rendered
(trust
Bay Area
Some fool has left a bunch of bombs around and it's up to you to them somewhere safe. Or: you can use your car as a weapon and smash into everything in sight. God Bless America! streets.
stash
D-Pad: View
© Reverse © Shift Down
©
©N/A
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Stick:
<U Brake
demo allows you to meet all of the characters (many of in ODCM's previews) in this splendid-looking RPG. character battle system, command a huge airship in a
Plus: sample its cannon fight, and get a taste of what
its
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© Advance/Select
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action-based plot
Okay,
maybe
an exclusive
not. Play against
2600’s Tank Battle on Dreamcast! up to three of your friends or enemies in
developed especially for
off the walls to destroy
ODCM
by Digital Eclipse.
opposing forces and friends, and
rack up the tank carcasses to get the high score.
N/A
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LETTER OF THE MONTH
Team ODCM WOW,
IT
watched Star Wars and decided,
a burst of
in
see which characters we were most like (from the Rebellion side only— Dave and Dan were fighting too much over who’d get to be Darth Maul for us to pick anyone from the Dark Side of the Force). What? You say that every magazine has replaced their staff photos with Star Wars characters at least once? Well, not like this they haven’t. Read on... originality, to
Wookiee-in-Chief How is Chris like Chewie? Simple: He’s hairy, he always wears a bandolier, and he rips people's arms off when they beat him at games. The fact that everyone at ODCM has their arms is just testament to how good he is. He also screams a lot, and only Dan can understand what he’s saying.
that dedicated
http://www.shining-force.co.uk/campaign.
other team within Sega Japan to look into the
Just imagine what the people over at Sega would if even the Official Dreamcast Magazine joins the 1 campaign! A system can never have too many good RPGs. I’m just a Sega fan who wants a Shining Force
made the
demand
is
some
clearly
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We
love Shining Force, you
and so do about five
love Shining Force,
in five
matter seriously—as the
Jet Cervantes
RPG
other strategy
billion
freaks
around the world. Though the
Passat also
Kessel run
petition ring to urge Camelot, Climax or
Anthology.
Nice
bar. His
gamers are taking an active role in making it happen. We encourage SF fans around the world to throw their hats into the
(Japan) and Camelot Software Planning (Japan).”
DAN FITZPATRICK
a
great
it’s
noticed that in most of your issues, there is a Shining Force 3/Anthology listed somewhere in the Hot List. Well, I’m sending this to tell you about a letter-writing campaign to get a new Shining Force for Dreamcast— please check it out at
think,
Art Director/Ex-bachelor Like Han, Dan once shot a bounty in
speculation and the occasional rumor,
I’ve
It actually has a good chance of succeeding, because it is not just directed at Sega of America. Here is the crux, as the website states it: “The aim of this campaign is simple: To increase awareness of the huge worldwide desire for a new Shining game, on either the Sega Dreamcast or PC.” We aim to get this point across to three branches of Sega (Europe, USA and Japan), and to the two main companies who have worked on Shining series games, Climax Entertainment
CHRIS CHARLA
hunter
to be Reckoned With
EH Force
WAS CRAZY THIS MONTH. We all
only real closest that the
parsecs.
series has
Han, Dan has gone from
And, like being a lovable rogue in the early days of ODCM to a reformed,
Dreamcast
come is
to
pure
married, responsible general today,
thanks to the
name
also
lovely Linda Fan. His
rhymes with Han.
Ed I
DINA FAYER Managing Princess Dina is more a Return of the Jedi A New Hope-style princess (We couldn’t get the type than
danishes to stick to the side of her head, anyway). She's good at dealing with primitive, cute and
Getting the Messenger?
just got online with
my
DC. This
is
my first
I
I
DC. This
PLEASE
letter
give
me
me
about 30 minutes to some good news!
took
write,
so
Via email
Right now,
AOL IM
FRANCESCA REYES Admiral/Senior Editor Man, if we had a nickel for every time Fran spun around in her chair and yelled “It’s a trap!" we'd have like, at least a quarter. Which is a lot, if you think about it. At the end of the issue (when Dan ships the last page/blows up the Death Star), she likes to spin around in her chair and laugh heartily.
and once chopped a Sith in half. He's been known to say “I have a bad feeling about this...” more times year-old elected princesses,
per issue than
is strictly
healthy.
an instant messenger a
la in,
I
I
game
like
I
I
they did (with those controls,
I
mean)? was going to buy the game, but it has these funky controls and weird What’s up with that? It does make the game a little more interesting,
scrolling for walking.
I
suppose, but they’re losing
my
business. I’m really not
going to buy the game.
That
may sound
kind
of stupid, but I've
I
SegaNet sounds great. can’t wait to kick the snot out of everyone know (or everyone don’t, for that matter) at NFL 2K1, but what about those of us who use a cable modem? Will we be able to use it without subscribing to a dial-up as well? Please tell me what want to hear k I (DC cable modem)! By the way, thanks for the second go at Tony Hawk. didn’t really appreciate it the first time around but, after the second time, I
I
I
I
I
I
in
the
just can’t get used to
The Broadband played on
Dave also plans on becoming a hermit
remembered the free demo disc Dreamcast that came with it; went on a hunt for it and it. played the demo of Fur Fighters, and was wondering— why did Acclaim and Bizarre Creations make
been playing videogames my entire life, and
support for more community-based interaction between Internet users everywhere, Ratboy?
Hey,
Associate Force™ Director Like young Obi-Wan, Dave hates kids and has a soft spot for 17-
for
or ICQ. But, there are plans in the near future (as
beginning of next year) for a new version of the PlanetWeb browser that will support Innomedia's Voice Over IP enabling DC gamers everywhere to chat with friends and loved ones across the Internet. Of course, you’ll need all the necessary equipment to do so, but ain’t it nice to hear that there will be
E2 DAVE CORDON
Sega has no plans
for
finally did find
just
I
Ratboy
sometimes dangerous creatures editors), and she can also use the Force— if she wants to. (i.e.,
Out of Control
ffl
While looking at your mag,
(and hopefully
last) controller-written e-mail. want to know whether or not Sega plans on releasing a DC version of AOL Instant Messager, or maybe a Sega instant messager so can talk to my friends on the net while they’re on PC and I’m on my
couldn’t get to the
Tunisia someday...
new control
this
setup.
I
really
am just looking for the
‘why’
behind
all
Why did they do
of this. it?
Furfighters: Innovative
suppose that the attempt or hellish Dreamcast needed a little exercise in controls? variety and wanted to differentiate itself from most systems, BUT...! just need to know. Keep up the good work with those demo discs! Cody Miller I
I
Codorama@aol.com
game
store fast enough.
Cody, dear oh dear.
EVAN SHAMOON
Mike Perez
The Young Upstart Editor
Denver,
Is Evan Shamoon really Luke Skywalker? Why don't we let you be the judge. Luke: “But was going into Toshi Station to pick up some power converters!” Evan: "But why do have to do Direct this month?” Luke: "But Uncle
CO
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Oweeen!” Evan: “But Fraaan!”
Broadband is definitely a tricky issue— as evinced by the console gaming industry’s reluctance to hop aboard the broadband bandwagon (sorry, couldn’t resist). While NFL
2K1
will
future
not include support for the network card (sob),
games
will
indeed be supporting
Official
Dreamcast Magazine December 2000
it.
The appropriate
card should launch at the beginning of October to coincide with the release of
8
your
criteria for in
buying
games
(not to mention your
playing them!) hinges upon their necessary
inclusion of outdated, limiting control
I
See what we mean?
If
enjoyment
Quake
III.
schemes—well, you
might as well stop playing videogames right now. The advancement and improvement of character control is an essential part of the industry's forward movement. And while Fur Fighters
may
not have the best control
in
the world,
it’s
a
huge improvement over other third-person action games. For the best execution of this
method we’ve seen, give MDK2 a go back to Tomb Raider-style
spin. You’ll never be able to
controls again. That
is,
unless you’re playing TR.
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that’s tedious to you,
so maybe, perhaps that is the reason? Like said, you otherwise run a very tight ship. Keep
bleemcasting Doubt
IS
If
tradition),
up the good work.
ciberfriend_6@yahoo.com
Doh. You see, Matthew, offices work, not for
we
will
CO
money, but
in
replace the experience
we made a
Evan’s case)
fall
IRRELEVANT
call
for the love of the
we
F355 Challenge
mistake.
All
games.
can't even
same category, which we damn much money).
into the
DREAM
contraption that saves your codes.
(i.e.,
too
like to
EHSeamaniac got your September/October
ODCM
Ed
DC games made
Your magazine
lot of
but
I
Ouch.
had reserved the
I
release in the winter, but in the Incoming it said November. Which is true? And also, was wondering when Shenmue: Chapter 2 and so on will release. Any news? section
(Yes,
we do
here!).
I
after
ODCM
in
And
is
it
REALLY worth $50?
working on
Any
info
I
how Cavia is games that are
based on anime franchises. in game form. It even went so far as to name two titles that I’m VERY interested in: My Neighbor Totoro (my favorite anime of all time) and Princess Mononoke. Do you have any updated information on these projects based on Hayo Miyazaki's creations? take any information: possible US release info (I doubt it), game mechanics, web I’ll
a pic or two... Anything. Please.
4.
1
really
I
for
First off,
Scott Protsik
news regarding what anime licenses. All that
yet to hear any
we do know is that a handful of games are currently under development (for the titles you mentioned in your letter) and are scheduled to start releasing sometime in the middle of next year. They do have an English page up at www.cavia.com, but there’s little on it at this point regarding the specific titles that they're working on. But give it a read and stay tuned. We can’t wait to see what they’ll come up with.
wish a Streets of Rage
game would come
am
I
out for DC;
of
Seaman
new each
the only one?
1
don’t have a
Gameshark CDX for DC yet (the keyword
is
“yet”), but I’m wondering if you have to keep buying one after another just to be able get codes to work with a game?
joboo41 l@dotplanet.com Hey Jeremy, breathe
in
and out
Issue
in
Shenmue
is
10
them
I
in
Paul Sholly
review score.
Seaman was write,
very North-centric in our
dating practices) and our featured review
in
final
ODCM #08 like
After the
game. As for Shenmue: Chapter 2... well, appetite for the
way the
game concludes, Shenmue 2 is for
we
first
know is that It's due for Japanese release sometime 2001 and takes place in Hong Kong and mainland China. hope the
car you incorrectly refer to as a
‘Ferrari’ is
It is
US
shame,
(a real
a Lotus
Elise.
too, since
it
is
our
product
it.
a
fell
In fact,
we
little
short.
game
is
horrible
and no one
have a sneaking suspicion that
Seaman
lots of
will
you
every night.
There's no doubting that the ‘game’ has appeal, but we’re
hoping that Seaman's sequel in
localization is quicker for the sequel!
games out there, so If you have any sense, you’ll pick up NOW. Or you can read our review in this very issue to
will
incorporate
more
responsive interaction and better voice recognition, addition to
more
With regard
I'd
it
decide for yourself.
The Swatch pretty
for
much
DC has
never been confirmed for the
a great car,
in
US as
a very Japanese-type of promotion. We’ll if
this
changes.
one hoping
for a fourth
Rage brawler to surface from Sega. a regular guest star in our Most Wanted List in DC Direct every month. We haven’t
Streets of
NOT A
They aren’t sold here
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we do stand by
out there are worshiping at the shrine of
waiting torture.
really
Let's
points, Paul, but
should be known that the review for
This isn’t to say that the
should’ve whetted your
that’s another story. All
Still, it
possibly one of the hardest ones we ever had to simply because the game is so unique. It’s a virtual pet sim with voice recognition technology, which makes it very ambitious. Nevertheless, while we applaud its intentions, the
Hemisphere, a winter
4. No, you're not the only to
on you on it. The red
call
FERRARI.
tedious to you,
games that you spend $50 on and play for a couple of hours. The Sims, one of the best PC games of the year, was a sim, not a game, just so you
You make some good
is,
the Northern
keep you updated is
someone
they're wrong, but since you insist
being smart-asses, I’m going to
Official
is
guys know.
month— it didn’t occur to us until now that we’ve been
It’s
wouldn't write
that
set for a
November release (which
3.
the lower right hand corner
incorrect. Normally,
If
as an “experience.” There’s something
was
variety in
to
in
gameplay.
the BIG error, we’ve ensured that the
boiled
in
hot
oil
whining Gillmen. Just the way
and fed
to
Seaman
a tank
full
of hungry,
likes 'em.
»RLL THE
URITE MOVES
is shaping up to be a killer season for gamers-at-large and we’re sure you have plenty o’ questions about everything. Heck, so do we— but this section isn't about us; it's about you and your worries, dreams, hopes and fears. Put it on paper or up on the screen, then send it through. We have plenty of lattes, cappucinos and Cokes to keep us going through the inundation of letters, and we simply can’t wait to wax philosophical about something... anything...please? Snail mail: ODCM, c/o Imagine Media, 150 N. Hill Drive, Brisbane, CA 94005. Or even better,
This
ODCM
#07 (September/October
caption
it
takes weeks before you can “experience"
Via email 1.
of the time, you’re right
2000), for your preview of the upcoming game Vanishing Point, your
tell
it
coolest
You guys and gals write a great magazine. The only thing change is to have it monthly. in
and
slowly. Here’re your answers:
Um, Jeremy, we were kidding about those spray cans littering the streets. It’s a game, right? And it's one of the
Lotus Notes
described
day,
And finally, the biggest flaw (drum roll): you advised us to kill of one of the Seamen in the Gillman stage. Shame on you. Thank you for taking the time to read my email, and keep up your good work in making this mag great.
Jeremy
offender
And 99.44%
Wow.
you guys must be REALLY lazy! Then, you basically put it down because it wasn’t a game. The creator
release?
2.
on the money. However,
you said that you'd have to do a lot of All you have to do is hold
tedious jobs and such.
DC
the entire ‘game’, unlike other 5.
at least
protsik@email.msn.com
its
on the Swatch
the Genesis version really rocks. But
It
yearn to see
Cavia’s planning on doing with
as skimmed over you mag.
‘up" on the D-Pad. 3.
mentioned a newly formed developer in Japan called Cavia Inc. The news bit went on to describe
Hayao Miyazaki’s Mononoke masterpiece is something we
for a
couple of weeks, noticed a few flaws in your review I
Dreamcast
#04.
started
“game”
have a question
regarding an FYI article that
saw
I
playing this
I
2. Jet Grind Radio sounds like a really fun game but in ODCM #06 you asked “What about spray cans littering the street?” and your question was never really answered. Are there any?
play
I
I
Greetings from Toledo, Ohio
01
I
I
decided I’d go ahead and get the game. played it and got the hang of it. Then,
have a few questions:
the Hot Hundred section, you said that
in
Shenmue would
EHGenki Desu Ka?
we have
I
2000 mag, nearly died when saw your Seaman rating. 6/10.
for the reservation, but
Fields Five
really rocks,
ODCM #07
1. In
PlayStation out. And it’s a coup that DC gamers will be able to play games like Final Fantasy VIII or even IX on their Dreamcasts. And they’ll look helia better to boot.
Scott,
I
Holding ‘up’ on the D-pad is harder than it looks.
by saying
LOVE your mag. But when
that
really
game and was thinking about getting my $10 back
system, people excited simply to play their old PlayStation games without having to drag their
Hey
me just start off
Let
distract
specifically for the
links,
You can use the same CDX to enter codes for new games, don’t worry—just head over to Interact’s website for the latest codes (www.gameshark.com). Or are you referring to compatibility issues with the Gameshark CDX and different Dreamcast models? As far as we know, this hasn't been a problem. The CDX works differently than other Gameshark products in the you have both a CD and a VMU-type
or a Lotus Elise.
Of course,
marvels like Shenmue or Jet Grind Radio. And it shouldn’t. But ciberfriend, can you argue with 400+ more games for your Dreamcast? Sure, they won’t be up to the 128bjt graphical standards of
but a
lazy!" paul shollv
if it is.
cars over $10,000 (or $500,
all of the above bluster could be just a ruse to you from the fact that we were wrong. Would we do that? Yep. A thousand apologies.. .the offending captioner will be forced to drive a tricked-out Pinto around for an entire month. We hope it doesn’t spontaneously combust.
of playing through
other
ODCM
of affording either a shiny Ferrari (except, of course, for the
Hence,
ever
staffers here at the
Therefore, with our piddlin’ paychecks,
virtual Ferraris in Ferrari
don’t necessarily think that bleemcast
PS games
know
first to
5.
Matthew Geuther Colorado Springs,
I
versions of
be the
I
That PS emulator for DC called bleemcast is the worst idea ever. Why does the best console ever created (Dreamcast) have to emulate a 32bit system? The bleemcast is killing the DC proud, and think it’s the worst thing that can be created for the system. Dreamcast has a lot of innovative games to be proud of and it doesn’t need a PS emulator to help it out. Keep up the good work.
We
you guys must be REALLY
definitely
in
the
the fine
December 2000
It’s
heard a peep from Sega Japan as to whether may be a possibility either in the arcades or on Dreamcast, but our readers will
or not this
(or small),
it,
baby:
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out of the coin-op farm that is Sega of Japan. From the crazy turntable sim Crackin' DJ to the Virtua Copstyle cappin' that is Confidential Mission arcades should be undergoing a renaissance of sorts in the very near ,
While
future. will
it
remains
make
actually
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be seen which of these games rooms, Sega’s great track titles will be
to
into our living
it
record leads us to believe that most of these
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'
looking to usher
in
the next generation of visual over-stimulation, the
future certainly looks bright. After seeing the impressive
ODCM
team
is
licking
its
collective
of arcade-to-Dreamcast ports.
JAMMA
lineup,
chops at the prospect of the next wave
So should
you.
Crackin' DJ
(SEGA)
One of the most interesting games we saw at the which featured an enormous, boxy arcade cabinet sporting two turntables, a crossfader and an amazing soundsystem (two 10cm coaxial speakers, two 16cm freerange speakers and two 25cm woofers). Similar to Beatmania, gameplay involves handling a number of different icons which fall from the top of the screen; when they hit the bottom line, you execute the necessary move. After learning to use the crossfader
JAMMA show was Crackin’ DJ,
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BEMANI
craze fueled by Konami, was looking be left up to the fickle arcaders in the end.
way to push the slider), need to master the turntables (which actually rotate),
(an arrow icon indicates which
fierce in the face of competition. But its fate will in
Japan, no matter
how
cool
it
looks or plays
Sega Strike Fighter isegai In
THIS
MONTH
WHAT WE’RE TALKING ABOUT
the version
different
up the
we
played, there
modes. A
after that there are
were three
training mission
difficulty with basic
ramped
maneuvers, but
two missions
to
choose
from: operation liberty for average players
and operation sweep
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and bombing raids, and while
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curve little
played quite well, to boot)
game
didn’t exactly stand out.
is
a
lot
of fun.
NASCAR Arcade Awesome
Shakka to Tambourine
isega/eai
graphics,
In this
great sound, and lots of
“drafting.”
a
nascar arcade
music has gone from Latin
of the Dead
high, the
Although
graphics are
SEGA STRIKE'
it
in its
of a
Sega brings us
replaces maracas
with tambourines. Oh, and the to J-pop.
isEGA/Ecoiet
Another gun game, quite similar to House
was a
game that
it
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different color,
racing action. Particular
emphasis on
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spectacular and the
you’ll
manic, nonstop combat.
looks fine (and everything
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Learn how
to
scratch, cue,
and cut and you’ll be on your way to DJ fame. With its unique character designs and
mainstream concept (at least in Japan), Crackin’ DJ might be
yet another highprofile achievement from the house that
Samba
built.
when we began to fear that the Virtua Cop franchise was headed for a meltdown, here comes Hitmaker’s next lightgun phenom: Confidential Mission. And even cooler... This time, you don’t have to put on the badge or the blue. Just
Confidential Mission
isegai
Developed by Hitmaker—creators of the masterful Crazy Taxi and Virtua TennisConfidential Mission employs Sega’s patented gun-game formula in beautiful fashion. As one or two players blast their way through the various levels on predefined paths, they are able to pick up new weapons and health items along the In addition to loads of standard enemies, you’ll also find yourself cappin’ on boss characters and attempting to avoid blowing holes in helpless citizens.
way.
Sounds
like
fun to us.
Planet Harrier (SEGA) was a
Easily the biggest crowd-pleaser at the show, there line to
check out
this sequel to the classic
Space
consistently long
The
Harrier.
game
uses a
movement, was bang-on. Visually stunning, this was one of the best games of the show—and will hopefully make its way here soon. joystick throttle to guide characters within a fixed circle of
and the
control
scratching on the appropriate cues. Easier melodies require you to scratch
Ninja
only one record at a time, swapping
back and
forth
Assault
between turntables
with each cut, but the later stages require the utmost proficiency in scratching
(Namco)
two decks simultaneously
while fading between tracks. Learn
how
Similar
to
way to DJ fame.
game
easily
is
endless horde of in
NAOMI
all o’
2:
JAMMA was the
forgotten Genesis
NAOMI 2 games simply blew us USA
out
of our seats.
The demo
reel
showed
clips
from
Virtua Striker 3, Wild Riders and Club Cart.
Here were our impressions:
that online
WILD RIDERS: The most clips
was that
of
WOW
impressive of the Entertainment’s
game. The game essentially comic-style what Jet Grind Radio
stylized racing
Fighting Vipers 2 isega/AM2i well.
into
a
does
for
did for cartoon-style. Everything in the
one will get the Dreamcast treatment as More news in a future issue!
game
has a somewhat rough, sketched look to (A'UTO
CHANGE
bringing back fond memories of a long-
title,
Comix Zone.
Absolutely stupendous.
official unveiling of
Naomi 2— Sega’s smokin’ new arcade hardware. The first game footage of
multiplayer goodness has us hot and bothered.
This
ninjas
TWICE AS NICE?
Another huge announcement at
The graphics engine is a bit dated, but this is one of the most entertaining driving games ever of
evil
an attempt to bust
hulking ninja fortress.
Daytona USA: Network Racing
And the thought
Crisis
was
at the show.
One or two players can team up to take on an
OLDSCHOOL GAMES COMING TO DREAMCAST
created.
Time
one of the better
games we saw
Grind Radio. While it may be prohibitively difficult to get the game’s turntable controllers onto DC, we’re crossing our crossfaders that the suits at Sega figure out a way.
(Sega/Amusement Vision) DAYTONA Yes, we get to play Daytona USA on Dreamcast!
concept to classic
series, Ninja Assault
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powered by NAOMI, you can expect plenty of visual deliciousness. The game’s graphic design is an underground comics-style that employs the wondrous cell-shader technique used in Jet Since this
in
Namco’s
properly scratch, cue, and cut and you’ll be on
your
it,
VIRTUA STRIKER
3:
Amazing
player
models, animation and stadium graphics. Staggeringly realistic, this will clearly be the next level of arcade soccer.
CLUB KART: This game sports amazing detail— more than you’d expect from a simple NAOMI driver, but aren’t the drivers and carts a bit out of proportion with the rest of the
environment?
hit arcades some time next and we’re hoping these titles give the arcade market a boost.
NAOMI 2 should year,
ailing
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movie to
downloading
finish
it's done, turn up the sound on your computer, sit back, relax and marvel at one of the most brilliant pieces of film we’ve seen in ages. Referencing everything from Pong to The Matrix, this bumpin’ piece of work simply made us happy (we’re cheap dates—so shoot us).
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RIVRL SCHOOLS 2 This girl
little
wants
to be in
D0A2 when she grows up.
Plug in and 'Party Up' CAPCOM HAS GONE AND DONE
IT AGAIN. Only recently unveiled to the Japanese public in arcade form, the company has confirmed that
DC port of its sequel to the 3D school-age brawler, Rival Schools, will make it US debut by the end of 2000 (they say November; we're opening that window a bit just to be on the safe side). a scirocco-quick turnaround and we're certainly not complaining. In the spirit of what's quickly becoming a Capcom trademark, Project Justice is packed with 28 characters including six fighters that are so hot off the design
Project Justice, a
—
It's
Project Justice
is
packed with fighters
that are so hot off the design board, they still
Rival Schools 2 got a rename for the US because Capcom didn’t think a game featuring violence in schools would be a such a good idea for
the sensitive US market. Of course, the game is exactly the same, but since Senators rarely actually play the games they lambast, we expect Project Justice to limbo under the radar of would-be censors. Character designs are typical of Capcom's new 3D style. Although they lack the detail of 2D, they've still got some rad anime style.
have that ‘new character smell.’
board, they still have that new character smell and favorite brawlers like Batsu
—
and Hinata are still in tow, itching to do some damage in all of those bizarre Edit Character mini-games. In fact, they'll even be able to team up, using something called a "Party Up Technique" in which three selected characters join forces to beat the opposition with spectacular specials. On Dreamcast, the whole production looks amazing, with interactive 3D backgrounds and highly detailed character models. We have a sneaking suspicion that the Power Stone engine snuck into this
game somewhere down
the line.
Combined with
the proven formula of the two-character "Team-Up Tech-
niques" from the original, these innovations should Project Justice a must-have
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made
of plastic)
were likewise ubiquitous.
Weather prediction: Cloudy with a chance of snowboarders.
Dreamcast
REAHCAST UALIiS IMTO A
inter wonderland Sega,
snow and swearing. ODCM took notes
Los Angeles' Great Western Forum
snowboarding quarterpipe contest held
home
in
of so
many golden
memories and a
Lakers
certain Paula Abdul
the United States.
Sega had the joint fixed up and
‘Opposites Attract’ tour concert that
locked down, with a massive fleet of
Fran swears she never attended—was
Dreamcast kiosks set up all over the complex. Attendees were given the
recently the
West Coast hot
spot.
Sega had the joint fixed up and locked down, with a massive fleet of Dreamcast kiosks set up all over the complex About 10,000 spectators stormed the Forum to witness Dreamcast Presents the
ACG Indoor,
the first-ever indoor
opportunity to try their hands at everything from
UFC to NFL2K1 to Tony
Aguilera dolls that have
become
right). A funny thing happened on the way to the forum, indeed.
(above
Hawk’s Pro Skater 2, and play they
did.
it or not, we even caught Macho Man Randy Savage
Believe
surreptitiously attempting to
shake
his groove
thang to
Samba de Amigo.
Odd.
showed up early for the event. We even caught two Sony reps cooking what anneareri tn he hitesized Seamen on their Folks
PlayHibachi.
The event was quite the studded
affair,
star-
with Mixmaster
Mike cooking up tasty beats boys and girls—just
for all the
prepping the crowd for headliner
Eminem. The
real
staple
elements in all of his stage shows. Audience response was...predictable. With regard to the tricks goin’ up on the quarterpipe (i.e., the POINT of all of this brouhaha), Mike Michaelchuk took home $32,000 and a Mitsubishi Montero, edging Terje Haakonsen out of the winner’s circle by less than a point. In other extreme news, Macho Man shook hands with Tommy Lee—former member of Motley Crue and Pamela Anderson—in a celebrity grappling match
Slim Shady
then proceeded to crank out his
customary brand of merriment, at one point busting out the blowup Britney Spears and Christina
Mlxmaster Mike is one of the illest DJs around, and he was in full effect on the turntables. In related news, it saddens us to hear that Mike and his DJ crew, the Invisibl Skratch Piklz, were recently divorced. At least
it
was amicable.
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Condon Crawling new games
Sega shows
its
England's Electronic
Consumer
outside ECTS, lacks babes of trailers that
were even more
Trade Show (ECTS)
is a bit like a London-based, gamers version of
cating than the cocktails.
the Oscars: a self-praising
The biggest crowd pleaser
drinkathon for an image-conscious
least,
industry.
It
draws thousands, from
terms of elegance though,
In
more
Hot, sweaty,
to booth,
hot
slyly
avoiding the marketing muppets, who pop up every so often to explain how the new ‘Harry Learns Hairdressing' game will change the (or savagely)
industry forever.
And
intriguing
mix of
this year, just
add a little more chaos, inaccurate maps were kindly provided—free of charge. Oh, well. You get what you pay for.
to
You’ll play
through as a bounty hunter
operating
in
near-future California,
where body parts have become the
searching out
news and decollatage while
and an
motorbike-riding and on-foot scenes.
drunk and dishevled,
from booth
sports a cinematic look and sto-
ryline,
it
gaming press crawls
most
Headhunter. This action-adventure title
different.
the world’s
intoxi-
(or at
that got the
gically placed
from Australia—those guys anywhere for an open bar).
will fly
couldn’t be
game
cheers— led, unnecessarily, by strateSega employees), was
as far away as Australia (and particularly
the
major London cinema house— and (even worse) threw it open to the
primary
Sega hasn’t learned needs of the press. We
public! (Clearly,
the special
want to see everything first. We want to be wooed by booth babes. We want our delusions of grandeur to be fed and watered.) Instead, Sega treated everyone equally well. Hundreds of gamers got to take a look at the future of
To
Sega didn't turn up. own unique event at a
its credit,
held
It
its
Dreamcast on the big screen,
in
a
series
drunk and dishevled, the world's gaming press crawls from booth to booth, searching out hot news and decollatage while slyly avoiding marketing muppets Hot, sweaty,
among crime
currency
Predictably, you
fun— in
style.
have
syndicates.
to spoil their
Amuze
Developer
is
shouting freedom and interaction; if the hype is justified, we’ll shout The
producers deserve their big shiny yachts!’ in
when the game
is
released
2001.
No less impressive, Sega World Wide Soccer 2001 has all of the next-level graphical shine you’ve
expecting. Developer Silicon
been
Dreams
has really mastered the art of looking good on the pitch. Characters aren’t quite ‘photo-realistic’, as the
company
claims— unless the photos were taken with a pretty dodgy camera— but they’re about as pretty as polygons
can over
make them. Stadiums contain 5000 polygons each. And new
options have been added, including
Mode, Global Domination, Time Attack and Team Battle. Kick off’s due just before Christmas. No Cliche likewise flogs the ‘photoSurvival
realistic’
lovely
horse, with
in
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for
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for more).
gamers who want less
realism and
Official
exceptionally
2001; read our in-depth
preview on page
22
its
adventure game, Agartha
(shipping
more
artillery,
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introducing a third/first-person shooter called
Gun
Valkyrie,
employing new
Anime-Dimension Technology to create 3D anime graphics and big gun, battle-driven gameplay. Online cooperative play
and a scheme enabling
simultaneous use of DC controllers
and gun peripherals are Finally,
in
the works.
Lionhead’s Black and
White and Sonic Team’s
PSO
put
in
special appearances (both are pre-
viewed
in
this issue's special Online
based on audience reaction, these are clearly two of the most avidly awaited Dreamcast games.
feature);
All in all,
it
was a
great show. Only
a minute into the first trailer, we stopped caring that the fat kid sitting
behind us was kicking our seat.
stopped caring that
had smeared
us:
his tipsy
lipstick all
And we Baby, Sega really
shoulder.
We
mom
over our
started thinking,
is the bomb. Trust as good as Dreamcast looks right it’s about to get even prettier.
now,
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SEPARATED AT BIRTH
Moore
r.
ioes to Washington Peter Moore, Sega of America's
knows that there are a multitude
President and Chief Operating
of factors involved
in
childhood
18— in
the case of The Simpsons,
for instance,
more than 71-percent
Officer, recently
development. The more time our
watchers were legally datable (and
the
government spends scapegoating one of the thousands of impressions made everyday on children, the less time it’ll spend on real,
thus,
sustainable solutions.”
has
shook his finger at US Senate Committee on Com-
merce. Responding to a (by now)
Commission media for
notorious Federal Trade report that blasted the
marketing violent games, movies, and music to children, he voluntarily appeared on the stand to defend his industry.
children,”
According to Moore, the FTC report argues that the type of advertising
“As a father of three young
he began,
“I
am
angered
shown during episodes
Simpsons, The
X-Files,
clearly target children
of The
someone
of
else’s problem).
unconscionable all
is
a document that
in
the appearance of a scientific
Moore said. “These TV shows have wide, mainstream appeal, and
survey,"
as such, they inevitably capture
and Baywatch
some consumers who
under
younger or older than the shows’ core
17.
are either
“This type of speculation is unconscionable in a document that has all the appearance of a scientific survey.” —Sega
of America President Peter
Moore, speaking before the US Senate Committee on Commerce
that—based on a handful of instances—government officials point an accusing finger at an entire
Citing the Nielsen ratings for the
audiences.” Find a
2000 TV season,
industry as the cause of
shows’ audiences are,
http://www.dimensions.com/segane ws/2000sept/13sept2000/l.shtml. Kiddos, game on. And remember: in
violence.
all
youth
Any responsible parent
however, Moore
countered by pointing out that those in fact,
made
up mostly of viewers who are over
Guy
Half-Life
“This type of speculation
real
life,
full
transcript at
giblets are bad.
Art Director Dan
$
This
month
we're keeping Separated at Birth
We present you with the facts and
in-house.
nothing but: (a) they both sport pompadourinspired coifs (b) they both wear black, thick-rimmed square-ish glasses (c) they both remain stone-faced in even the most dire of circumstances (d) when questioned, they will both admit to having shot and killed more than one alien in their glory days (e) they have both saved the human race (well, the race/jobs of the ODCM staff, at least). They are the Half-Life guy and Art Director Dan. Although one brandishes the latest in modern weaponry and the other packs a Macintosh G3 (256 MB RAM, 40 GB hard drive) these two are indeed separated at birth.
Don’t try to stop us: we’re gonna Jet Grind you up and down Milwaukee
officials
have not taken kindly to Jet
Set Radio, claiming the
title will
encourage young-
sters to tag streets with their favorite colors. The
Common
Milwaukee
game makes and cool lion
to
Council has claimed that the
defacing public property
young people.
seem
fun
spending $1
After
mil-
a year on the prevention and clean-up of
want Sega to cancel the release. A spokeswoman for Sega named (quite aptly) Gwendolyn Marker demurred, saying, “We have graffiti, officials
no plans to stop publishing Jet Set Radio. fantasy.
It
celebrates
as
graffiti
It’s
a
art.”
See new screens.
Drool. Lather, rinse, repeat.
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of the best
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IT’S HERE. IT ROCKS. YOU NIGHT NEVER LEAVE YOUR HOUSE AGAIN.
FOR OVER lain
A
YEAR, THE NODEN ENSCONCED IN EVERY DREANCAST HAS
waiting for something better to do than surf the
NFL 2K1, that day has arrived. The
result:
web (and
pure gaming satisfaction.
play j[
Chu Chu Rocket). With the launch
The promise
of online console
of
gaming has
U As we move towards the holidays, Sega and third parties are readying a full online onslaught, and the best gaming machine on the planet is poised to get even better. Over the next 22 pages, your crack ODCM team has revealed (and played) (and covered) EVERY online Dreamcast game that’s coming to America over the next year. The results are even more spectacular been delivered, and the
than
we expected.
If
results are nothing less than stunning.
you haven’t yet signed up with SegaNet and you
well—the rules have changed.
DO IT. You
really, really,
need
to.
still
consider yourself a Dreamcast gamer,
The revolution
is
happening now.
»
TECHNOLOGY
THE FACT AND FICTION OF SEGA’S INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER Your Dreamcast can use any ISP (except AOL, that
is).
So
why all the hype about SegaNet, other than, of course, that there are now some non-Chu Chu Swirl games that you can actually play online with Sega’s supersystem? is
simple: SegaNet
Q&A format,
handy
flat is
The answer
out rocks for gaming. Here,
a
in
exactly why:
the phone lines from one place to another. But you can reduce efficiently routing the data.
the Internet
inefficient in the
make
when
Internet lag, so
over the Internet, to a server and
you’re playing
back again. Bad ping times are those above 300 or 400 milliseconds. Imagine
move
game
against other people with your
pulling a
Dreamcast, you get the smoothest
and having it take nearly half a second before your character
playing experience possible.
in
a fighting
way
it
this is boring, but
a data—a juke
is connected to a hub and each other. Because the gamer servers are located at major points of dial up across the country, we can guarantee less hops. It’s like this: SegaNet goes
user
essentially connected to
transfers data it's
we’ll
A single
worth your while).
it
both players are using SegaNet, each
by
important—so keep reading and
NFL 2K1, saymight have to travel between twelve different locations on the Internet before it gets to the NFL 2K1 server, and then through 15 different bit
What’s so special about using SegaNet as my ISP? SegaNet is designed to minimize
we know
(yes,
it,
See,
exceptionally
is
in
User-Hub...Hub-User. Other ISPs go User... Hops
from server to
server...
Hub... Hub.. .More hops...User.”
locations before the result of the
move gets back to your system. Your 56K modem is plenty fast, and the speed of the data between locations
‘Wasssup!” Sports lovers love SegaNet.
THE SEGANET DEAL What the
hell is 'lag',
anyway?
Lag (sometimes called ‘ping-time’ the PC world) is simply the time it takes for a piece of data (a ping,
from your Dreamcast,
say), to get
why bad ping mess up a game.
responds, and you see
is
times can
light,
really
Unless you can
in
the speed of
light,
somehow
there’s no
defeat
way to
usually pretty close to the
kills
but the
number
you—you’re
second
still
of
speed of
hops
is
what
trying to juke a
after you get tackled. In
jumps between
eliminate lag altogether— it simply
short, those
does take time
servers on the Internet really suck.
for
data to go over
routing
So what does SegaNet do about
HON TO SIGN ON WITH SEGANET Demo
disc that
modem
phone
line,
in
S —E— G
came with this
issue into your Dreamcast,
the
hook
/•
Now
launch the Browser 2.0.
— ®®9
to use this
because
it
has the
latest browser).
So
far,
so good. See that
•
online
in
minutes. (Note:
if
you’ve
already used another ISP with your Dreamcast,
it
will
overwrite
that old information.)
-
"
as
we
of jumps
cliche
on the
is horrid,
digital
server.
but
it
really
are?
we
said
it
month to make
sure, before
you pony up the cash.
yellow story, us).
how
anyway). Or you
if you don’t believe Second, you get three
different email addresses (so your little
brother’s Britney Spears Fan
can think of SegaNet as a private
Club newsletter won’t clutter up
network inside the
your inbox). Finally, you get
Internet,
access to an exclusive online
optimized for gaming.
The
result
is
incredibly
smooth
play rates -
with a
much better than you get 56K modem and a standard, As Sega.com CTO
inefficient ISP.
[name is
Dreamcast Magazine December 2000
you? You can log on and get a
free
the net on earth (read the big
The
take the fewest possible
information superhighway (see
We were almost disappointed by how easy it was to sign up and sign onto SegaNet. We wanted to feel like experts helping you through a difficult spot— but about anyone can get through these menus in no time flat.
just
for
between Dreamcast and
to come] explains, “SegaNet an exclusive network that allows
gamers
JsJKiCial
game
(the price of a brand new Dreamcast, by the way). Not 100% sure if SegaNet is
$150
equiivilent of slow country roads
will
acts like a carpool lane on the
® HU
button that says “Sign up for
SegaNet?” Move the pointer over it and click. Now just follow the onscreen instructions, and you’ll be fragging
makes sure your
So what do you get for your $21.95 a month? First, you get the best gaming connection to
data
number
why you have
It
on the arteries too, so your
the back to a
your system.
(that’s
everything up.
main backbone data-carrying arteries in one jump from your Dreamcast, and it locates its game servers right
and turn on
issue’s disc,
it?
Simply put, SegaNet speeds data gets on one of the Internet’s
Signing on with SegaNet is remarkably easy. Just pop the
Hey buddy, want some cash? If you sign up with SegaNet and agree to join the service for 18 months, paying $21.95 a month, you get some awesome goodies. First, a free Dreamcast keyboard— good for writing email, typing in URLs and talking trash in NFL 2K1. Second, and juicier, is a check from Sega.com for
to take less hops.
community with and downloads
custom and tips, system
special,
editorial, private hints
for your
that you can’t get anywhere else.
Sound good? Yep, it does. So what are you waiting for?
Assuming
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So why doesn't every ISP do this? In
a word,
expensive
cost. in
up your server
structure this way,
people
incredibly
It’s
terms of cash and
logistics to set
and since most
who connect to
don’t do
games,
for
it
Sega, on the other hand, has every
reason to want to maximize game-
why
it’s
partnered
with the big brains at Genuity to
develop the private network that
is
SegaNet. Unfortunately, the sideeffect of this
is
SegaNet
that
they
go only as
on the server are using SegaNet.
Quake, slaughtering other players as
I
if
literally
stand
still,
lag-warp, especially
fast as the slowest
person’s connection, so
the Internet
there’s no
reason for your average ISP to bother.
playing ease. That’s
So as long as use SegaNet everything will be cool, right? Maybe. See, most games are set to
caught
in
supprt the
What about the LAN adapter?
SegaNet as
Ah-hah. Here’s the deal. The
deal with his lag.
If
have to
adapter
you’re close to
him geographically, like in the same town (you’re both in Anchorage or Honolulu or Toronto or Boston, say), probably won’t
make much
difference, but
if
state
it
a
you’re across the
could be like pulling teeth.
if
SegaNet—the most people won’t buy and SegaNet is
its
attention
on the bulk
of
backbones, either geographically (AL
than you would using a generic
and
Most PC games
HI) or logistically (for
make
at
yell
Canada).
us—we
It
didn’t
the Internet that way, and
fast
aren’t set to
as the slowest
you’ll finally
is
go as
player, though,
purely digital (your
so
get to experience the joy
modem
doesn’t digital
data into analog sounds that can travel over
of being a ‘low-ping bastard’ at
neither did Sega.
It
really only
movies or sound—at sustained speeds.
have to convert the system’s
sucks, but don’t
playing online-
adapter,
gamers. But because the connection
ISP.
when
helps to transfer lots of data— like
LAN
focusing
Alaska, Hawaii
of data
locations, trajectories, that kind of
wouldn’t help much.
reality is that
connect to the Internet using SegaNet
in
Canada, since those locations are
games that
Most games,
thing—so a LAN connection probably
LAN
you’re using the
What about PC gaming? Same deal; you’ll get a better
or
first
adapter, which should
adapter, you can’t use
the
isn’t
bit
broadband connect
DSL or a cable modem).
Unfortunately,
be the
LAN
later this year.
though, actually only transfer a tiny
you connect to the
lets
Internet with a (either it
be out
LAN
simply too far from the major Internet
currently available
why you won’t be able to use the LAN adapter with every online game. Quake III, Unreal Tournament, and Half-Life will
the dude
you’re playing against doesn’t have his ISP, you’ll
a
lots of players
if
phone
great speed. that
In
lines),
you
fact you get
still
get
speed
may give you an unfair in some games, which
advantage
So: should
switch to SegaNet? its
price
is
competitive with other ISPs. We’ve
and it does offer the best performance we’ve seen. And if you sign up for 18 months, tested
you’ll
it
extensively
get
$150
the choice is
I
At $21.95 a month,
is
of the price back.
yours: but
pretty obvious to us.
it
GET
So
seems IT!
OUTFIT YOUR DREANCAST FOR SURFING I
WHAT YOU NEED Dreamcast with a
WHAT YOU CANT HAVE
modem
(You should already have this, Ace) Zip Drive
An ISP
This high-density removable storage
You can sign up popping
in
SegaNet by
for
the disc that
came
with this magazine and starting
the Browser 2.0
medium for Dreamcast is coming— Sega says— but it ain’t here yet. So, so far, there’s no way to download and save movies or MP3s. Still, sites like Xdrive (www.xdrive.com) give you
WHAT YOU WANT Keyboard writing email (using the onscreen
keyboard
is painful).
you don’t
If
have one, you can’t talk trash during
games and people you. (and
it’s
will
make
easy; just plug
fun of into
it
It’s $29, but you you agree to sign up
controller port two).
get
it
hard drives online, and are
well worth checking out.
LAN Adapter and
Essential for browsing the net
virtual
virtual
for free
if
with SegaNet for
18 months.
Mouse Makes browsing
easier,
This gizmo will let you sign on with a
broadband DSL or Cable modem if you have an it and PC hooked up to the Internet
connection. And
ethernet hub, you can have your
at the
MP3
same
playing
and
in
conjunction with the keyboard, offers the best
way
Person Shooters
like
Quake and
www.dreamcastmagazine.com
VMU, but
don’t worry, the
company promises an MP3 storage is coming, probably in the form of a cable that hooks directly between your Dreamcast and an MP3 player like the Creative solution
it
of playing First
Unreal Tournament
time.
Player
Sega’s put the kibosh on the MP3-
Lab’s
Nomad
II.
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Dreamcast Magazine
29
REVIEWED
THE WORLD OF CONSOLE FOOTBALL JUST REACHED A NEW PEAK 2K1
NFL
A large part of the Dreamcastâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s early success can be attributed to NFL 2 K. Long before the system was even available, mind-blowing movies of the game flooded the Internet, leaving a litter of dropped jaws and saliva-slimed keyboards in their wake. No console sports game had even approached the level of detail that was seen in these player models, and the animations were so realistic that many people questioned whether it was actual gameplay they were witnessing or pre-rendered footage. One year later, we all know that developer Visual Concepts delivered the goods: NFL 2K remains one of the most amazing-looking games around.
We can honestly say that this is one of the finest videogames we have ever played, and one which no self-respecting sports fan should be without. While we loved the original, the vastly improved running game and new animations make this title light
years better than
its
predecessor.
•This
major graphical leap, however, 2K a bit of a cushion when it to other areas of the game, at
gave NFL
56K FINDINGS well have to rename the heading to read 33.6K, because that’s as fast a connection as we were able to muster when hooking up with SegaNet (this was when the system was in beta testing). Even at this speed, though, we had little trouble finding opponents. It also didn’t seem to gamer was right next door or a few thousand miles matter whether a fellow away—when a solid connection was indicated by the handy bar graph (it also gives you a verbal indication such as poor, good, great, etc.), the gameplay was exceptionally smooth. Lag and warping, a common occurrence of online games, were virtually unnoticeable, and, when the opponent was honorable and wouldn’t quit the moment he was losing by a few points, the games were a joy to play. We also experimented with signing on through a few free Internet services, but our results were not worth the aggravation; good connections were like trying to find a needle in a haystack. So if you’re a fan of online gaming, the $21.95 a month that SegaNet charges appears to be a good investment. And of course, your buck will go even further when more games are supported Actually, to
be
totally accurate,
by the service.
www.dreamcastmagazine.com
'
came
least as far as the reviews
were
2K's presentation that
we were
stand by our belief that NFL
in
less polygons than 2K.
illusion
2K
different
from
its
we ran a few we think that the 2K1 may sport a few
In fact, after
models
difference (and
willing
few bugs and a dubious
running system. Don’t get us wrong.. .we still
predecessor.
side-by-side tests,
player
concerned. Even we were so dazzled by to overlook a
much
doesn't look
it
It’s
not a huge
may even be an
caused by a
optical
different texturing
technique), but don’t expect to see a
great leap as far as the visuals go. But
we
Many
was a one-game revolution in sports gaming. But sometimes a new game comes along and does things so much better that it makes you wonder how
truthfully,
you ever accepted an older game’s
case here) and completely ignore other
shortcomings
issues that needed attention.
in
the
first
place;
it
redefines your whole idea of ‘revolution’.
At
first
That
game
is
NFL 2K1.
glance, this year’s
game
couldn’t be happier.
times, developers into
will
pour resources
improving a game’s graphics (even
they didn’t need improving, as
is
if
the
We
applaud Visual Concepts and Sega for
spending the time and dollars to improve and expand gameplay
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Official
Dreamcast Magazine
31
experience,
when they could have
painted the
title
eye candy and
Looking head-to-head again at why
with a fresh coat of
left
it
these differences between the two
games were so striking, we
at that.
major
One
of the biggest complaints
leveled at
NFL 2K was
its
poor
implementation of the running game. It
wasn’t so
player,
much
a problem for the
as he could eventually master
culprit:
the handoffs
noticed a in
2K took
forever!
The running back always
seemed
to take a preposterous route
to the QB, wasting precious
microseconds. run to the
On
a simple off tackle
right, for
instance, the back
moving to the
a few techniques that allowed him to
would
gain positive yardage—the problem
than run straight at the QB, before
was that the CPU wasn't smart enough to use these same techniques, making the threat of the
heading
run from the computer-controlled
much
off in
left,
the direction that the
was supposed
to go! In
2K1, the
running back does exactly as he meaning that he has a chance of finding a hole before it’s plugged up by a gung-ho linebacker
should,
teams a non-factor. The issue was that the defensive backs could get to the
play
first start
who has the benefit of a few extra moments to get there. We’re no
ball carrier
too quickly, stopping almost
every run for a loss or negligible gain.
programmers, so we’re unsure of how
creating your
has been remedied. Yes,
many other facets of the running game were adjusted, but our eyes tell
there’s a whole host of additions that
us that this one change makes
give
In
2K1,
there
this
will still
carrier gets
be plays where the
dropped
ball
for a loss, but
it’s
now because the player making the was positioned properly on the play and was able to outsmart or
tackle
overpower his potential blockers.
all
own
plays, players,
playbooks have returned
the
2K1 even more
intact,
and but
long-term
nothing
if
not a complete game. You
can now draft up your own squad (the
CPU
will intelligently
draft for the other
teams) and take them
into
the
new
difference in the world. The rest of the gameplay has remained pretty much
sports
unchanged, we're happy to
complete these days without
organization, from drafting rookies to
form of fantasy
dealing with the salary
All
playability
report.
of the 2K’s tasty options for
than the
game can
first
really
draft,
game. No
franchise mode. Here you’ll have the
be considered
opportunity to run your
some and 2K1 is
own cap—and the
NFL 2K1 THE CREEK Before making some notorious racist remarks on national television, Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder was the most well-known football prognosticator around. The funny part is, he never did much better than 50-50 in picking the games. We figured we could do better with our trusty Dreamcast and a copy of NFL 2K1. so we set out to try and predict this year's playoff teams. We ran ten seasons and here are our predictions:
NFC AFC
Playoff Teams:
Rams, Bucs, Redskins. Cowboys, Bears
Playoff Teams: Jaguars. Bills, Titans, Raiders. Broncos
NFC Super Bowl AFC Super Bowl
Representative: Bucs Representative: Jaguars
Super Bowl Winner: Bucs Jj
Teams
that failed to make the playoffs at least once Eagles. Bengals. Browns, Chargers
So hold on to this issue until the end the Dreamcast made out.
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December 2000
of the football
in
the ten years:
season to see how well
titril
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YESTERDAY AND TODAY Looking at these two screens, it's hard to tell which is the newer version (NFL 2K1 is on the left, by the way). That's okay, though, because Visual Concepts has gone the extra mile in the most important areas, giving us a
REVIEWED
franchise mode, disbursal draft, incredible animation, gameplay that's been tweaked to perfection, and amazing online play. Oh. and the graphics kick
ass anyway.
We
ll
take that trade-off any day.
2K1 One
of the
problems
with NFL 2K1 is that since everything looks
NFL
so
damn
cool,
we
find
ourselves replaying nearly every down.
of recorded calls is so great, repetition doesn’t occur nearly as it does in most sports games. Here’s hoping that Visual
date has been set for PS2 online play
Concepts keeps on improving this
Findings for more details on this
wonderful system, and that other
excellent feature).
volume
often as
choices you
make
will
have an effect
come. The only negative aspect we’ve found is
on your club
for years to
an unknown cast. What made this such a success was that the team wasn’t limited to a few precious with
companies
hours
aren’t saved from year to year, so
get a velvet-throated diva to follow
both financially and
and display some false enthusiasm. The ‘no-names’ they brought in were given a huge amount of material to record, and they pulled
hop on the bandwagon.
if
is
you want to know who, the lifetime leader
touchdowns, track of
it
you’ll
in
for instance,
rushing
have to keep
yourself.
Where 2K was most revolutionary was in its play-by-play: instead of opting to dish out large amounts of
in
a recording studio, trying to
directions
it
2K1,
this
Then, of course, coup-de-grace.. .the for
aurally,
and
we come
same method has
been employed, and
it’s
even better
one feature that, will be play.
Sony’s PlayStation 2 should already be leaping off the shelves by
cash for some uninspired work from a
than before. No matter what situation
the time you read
professional, well-known broadcast
you encounter, the commentary
team, Visual Concepts opted to go
spot-on relevant, and because the
how many units it sells, NONE of its games will playable online—and no
is
your bag, Dreamcast
this,
in
if
interaction
the only
is
town (see the sidebar 56K
What we have, then, in NFL 2K1 is game that transcends its individual
a
elements to deliver a complete, to the
the foreseeable future,
Sega’s claim to fame: online
off brilliantly. In
will
human
the future.
is
see the benefits,
that the statistics of individual players
So
in
console
but no matter
compelling, extremely
game for
playable football
the solo and online player alike. Like
any game,
'
there are minor
^
\
will
have to put up with (and
^ ^
that you
irritants
remember—one irritant may well
&
y—
man’s
be another man’s gem.
Some of us, game
for instance, really like the
interface,
and others
almost positive
don’t),
you’ll find
but we’re
the
game we
as rewarding and enjoyable as have. This
is
truly
a new high point
in
the history of console sports games.
If
games were as
the rest of these
ambitiously improved, our pathetic social lives are
in
for a real beating.
ROBSMOLKA
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FIRST-PERSON
As PC gaming marched confidently into 1999, first-person deathmatching’s biggest war was billed as a fight between two long-awaited titles: id’s Quake III Arena and Epic Megagames’ Unreal Tournament. Both games utilized
new
shiny
technologies to drive their respective
—
1
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i
game
engines, and both attempted to blend the fast-paced
action of multiplayer deathmatch sessions with somewhat more tactical, squad-based teamplay. Based on Quake’s deathmatching dominance and the original Unreal's generally unimpressive multiplayer capabilities, however, most tapped Quake III as the clear winner before even giving them a erm shot.
(U
so good
is its
bounty of gameplay
options. While is
Quake
provides
III
perhaps a tighter
deathmatch, UT hooks
modes
like
flag, last
raa You
*
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killed Alarik
Killing Spree!
—
it
up with
domination, capture the
man standing, and
Secret Level’s job has been clear from the start: Port Unreal Tournament to the Dreamcast while preserving the beautiful graphics and perfect feel of the game, and while
making some additions
in
the process (including
DC
support for the
game’s 35-plus
spent years porting
levels are
all
varied
and logistically), and the maps are some of the genre’s all-time greats—the kind of levels that get permanently burned into your memory banks. The creaky wooden Koos Galleon, the treacherous walkways around the Peak Monastery, High Speed’s (both graphically
speeding
train cars, the
catwalk over
Conveyor and Liandri—the list goes on and on. Highly playable, highly impressive; the
maps
you reeling. Throw
in
in
UT will leave
a tournament-
ladder-based single-player mode,
most balanced (and most coolest) weapons we’ve seen in any shooter to date, great sound effects and the ability to customize of the
and command all the bots in the game, and it becomes easy to see why Unreal Tournament made a bigger splash than even the illustrious
Quake
III.
We took a trip to developer Secret Level’s secret hideout (located,
somewhat ironically, smack in the middle of downtown San Francisco) and found out all there is to know about the Dreamcast version of the glory that
is
Unreal Tournament.
Dreamcast Magazine December 2000
far
controller).
games
Having
onto the
more underpowered PlayStation, was just the team to handle the
this
Epic’s level design here is absolutely impeccable. Castles, pirate ships, floating pyramids, conveyor belts and low-gravity cityscapes are just some of the great maps
game. Levels even have traps built into them— like a room weapons and armor that turns out to be a gas chamber. available within the
full
of
console-specific
tournament team matches. The
some
X
i
how wrong they were.
Oh,
What makes Unreal Tournament
what
i
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huge feat. Via some slick programming, visual trickery and hard work, they have the
game
PC
cousin,
visually
managed
to get
up to par with
and we were duly
its
impressed with the results (see
Trimming the Fat). The game will be multiplayer on SegaNet, allowing as
many as
eight
players to simultaneously shoot
one
—
t!*
SM m
Q&A —
After jetting to San Francisco (okay, okay we took the bus downtown) to see Secret Level, we managed to chat with Epic’s Cliff Bleszinski (better known as Cliffy B.) about Unreal on Dreamcast. Here’s what he told us:
5
.
ODCM: Dreamcast. Unreal Tournament. Discuss. Cliffy B: [laughs.] Ok. Bringing fast first person shooters to consoles is a great thing and, other than Time Splitters (and Doom but I'm not counting that!), this is the first 'fast' FPS on a console ever. And you know what? Split-screen works really well. I mean, I'm a PC junkie, but there's a lot to be said for actually sitting next the guy you're playing against, and elbowing him, and hitting his hands off the controller! A lot of people say that if you play split-screen you can see where the other guy is and cheat. But in a fast game like UT you can maybe look over and get a general idea of where he is on the map, but once you're there, it's all about how good you are at aiming in a firefight. If it was slow, it would be like playing hide and seek in an empty room, but in a fast game it works great. ,
ecret Level Factoid: The bar downstaris from the company's offices was where John luston shot The Maltese Falcon. It is also rumored to be the actual birthplace of the lartini—the Bethlehem of potent potables. It is not rumored to be the reason why we've ensored these nipples. We just didn’t want to give away some of the best bits in the game
another to bloody, pulpy will
little
pieces.
UT
a
reliable
(we’ve written this phrase so often lately
connection with minimal lag (when playing on SegaNet, at least). will
The game
released
LAN
some
gaming, UT will also offer single- and two-player split-screen modes, and for
who have
yet to discover friends
ODCM),
thumbs
the game’s
got the smartest bots
still
(read:
is
a
ODCM: Of course, on Dreamcast, you can play online... Cliffy B: Yeah. I was playing an earlier version here [in North Carolina] against the Secret Level guys in San Francisco, and it was playable. It felt like about a 200 ping. It was no LAN, but for a
console-ization of the interface-
console
tweaked
to perfection.
including a redesigned
HUD
split-
screen against your friend, and invite six
If
company
nothing else, our
party
is in
Secret
extremely capable
attempting to port a first-person shooter
hands. Fps currently fluctuates between 25 and 60, but the team guarantees it will be locked at a solid 30 by the game’s release date (they said that 60 was possible, but not in time to make
onto a console— is putting a great deal
their deadline).
other computer-controlled bots to the
you could.
party, well, In
much
terms of like
control, Secret
Level-
every other developer
of effort into
making the game
enjoyable using the standard
that
If
everything
together, we’ll have turkey this holiday season,
was pretty
good.
ODCM: And that was an
earlier version, before
Cliffy B:
Yep.
ODCM: What do you think of the control? Cliffy B: It takes a little getting used to if you're coming from a PC. You get a lot of naysayers a lot of people would prefer a keybaord and mouse, and there is a little learning curve; but in a few minutes you're fine. Look at Goldeneye 's controls: they transfer to a faster paced game like UT fine. And it works with the Dreamcast keyboard and mouse fine. The mouse, actually man it's small...
—
ODCM:
It's
more
like a shrew...
Cliffy B: [laughs] exactly.
But
it
works great (Note: He's actually The US mouse is bigger for us
—
talking about the Japanese mouse. bigger Americans).
comes
and
giblets
evan shamoon
ODCM: What was cut from the PC version? Are we going to miss it?
We have a great team in Secret Level working so you'll see a lot of the most famous or infamous making the change, like CTF Face. Secret Level
Cliffy B:
on
it,
TRIMMING THE FAT
levels
UT was written for the PC in a core scripting language-which is great for the game, but makes it really difficult to port it over to other platforms,” Secret Level’s president Jeremy Gordon tells us. “Combined with what we perceived to be the Dreamcast’s serious memory constraints—16 megs of RAM versus the 64-meg minimum on PC—we were worried, to say the least.” Fortunately, some clever programming has allowed Secret Level to get the game looking just as good as it does on PC, and running just as smoothly. This was achieved by making serious use of the DC hardware’s excellent texture compression—and by hiring seven new designers to clean up the maps. “When the maps were originally designed, there was quite a bit of inefficiency in terms of their geometry. We found lots of unnecessary extras that we were able to cut
is
“Much
of
Gordon explains. Thus, several desks in Secret Level’s offices have essentially become butcher boards, wherein the game’s levels are being trimmed of all existing fat. The one real sacrifice that Secret Level was forced to make was Assault, which didn't make the cut. “The main problem,” Gordon says ruefully, “is that the maps are huge and simply won’t Fit on Dreamcast without extensive modifications. We got one to fit (I think it was AS-Guardia), but it would be pretty lame to offer only one Assault map. So since we out,”
couldn’t get
them
all
to
fit,
we decided to delete
triangle strips,
it
entirely.”
has been converted so as to make the best use of which the Dreamcast handles so well.
Additionally, the original animation
also doing lots of
—
new
levels that
work
really well
within the memory constraints: they're smaller and tighter, but that actually works really well. Domination and Assault didn't make it past the /c r< / cutting room floor, but I think if you're a PC player you'll be surpised at just how much is in there. All / / £ V of the AI is in there you play on novice and your \ slow; they fire the bots turn slow; Mom can play; L but if you turn it up to godlike, they're like Threshbots. /"t5£
—
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.
Ah, what first-person
shooter would be complete without a rocket launcher? This one is about the size of a Saturn V,
wouldn’t you say?
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SegaNet was 100%
running?
—
line.
visit to
Level assured us that Unreal
Tournament
it
(Heads-Up
and game menus streamlined for sofa-based gaming. “We want the player to be able to pick up the controller, press Start-Start-Start and be blasting suckers away within moments,” Display),
states the
if
.
improvements include a thorough
in
possible—so
you wanted to play two-player
like
Other Dreamcast-specific
yet to discover the joys of online
town. Any combination
beginning to to sound
(hopefully)
vicious (and smooth!)
with opposable
it’s
controller will
adapter, which should
broadband gaming. (Dreamcast vs. PC gaming will likely be possible for those PC players willing to download the augmented maps). For those who have
those
that
McDonald’s Extra Value Meal)— but the be fully-customizable, and
also support direct head-to-head
connections, as well as the soon-to-be-
allow for
controller. The game will be when experienced with DC mouse and keyboard combo
Dreamcast
best, of course,
be hosted by Sega’s servers, so
gamers should expect a
QUAKE III ARENA The biggest, baddest FPS around its way onto Dreamcast,
SOLDIER OF FORTUNE
grunts SHOOTERS
courtesy of the good folks at Raster
The
(and the good wallets at Sega).
to
Somewhat
farther along than the
DC
port of Unreal Tournament, the proof
game
the pudding—the
is
already
is
looking incredible, very shiny and
in
The interface has been completely redone for the DC and
now extremely Everything
game
is
for both
is
“console friendly.”
customizable, and the
will offer out-of-the-box
support
MDK2- and GoldenEye-style
make
its
way over to Dreamcast unscathed, with Crave promising us res bloodletting that
slick.
FIRST-PERSON
game around is coming it’s got more wounds than Rambo.
nastiest
Dreamcast, and
bullet
Fortunately, the port should
original
all
made
the highthe
PC
such a crowd pleaser. Crave
has also promised that Soldier of Fortune
be SegaNet compatible,
will
so get yourself ready for
some
seriously bloody gunnin’.
controls with the standard control
pad,
in
adddition to support for the
MadCatz Panther
XL,
and
of course
the mouse-and-keyboard combo. The
game
will
including
as
sport
14
30
total
original
some from
maps,
maps—as well
the upcoming
Team
OUT TRIGGER As reported Out Trigger
is
our last issue, coming along just
in
swimmingly. Japan's
first real first-
person shooter, Out Trigger
is
very
much an arcade game—far more
Arena expansion pack. It will support the LAN adapter, and it will even
playful
include four-player split-screen
spattered shooters of the Western
deathmatching!
world.
HEAVY METAL FAKK
than the
It’s
darkly-lit,
blood-
got loads of style, and from
2
Ahh, what first-person shooter would be complete without a rocket launcher. Pretty soon, Dreamcast
owners will have more top-quality firstperson shooters than they’ll know what to do with. Better run out and buy a keyboard and mouse before the
mayhem
-
'
begins.
what we’ve seen so far, should be an incredible ride. Check our full preview issue #8 for the whole scoop.
in
As we exposed to the world back in Issue #8, the second release of HalfLife will include all the online goodness you crave: Opposing Force, Team Fortress Classic and Half-Life’s original multiplayer elements will see the light We’re even
of day.
told that the
possible inclusion of Counterstrike
being tossed around.
We
is
can’t wait.
KISS PSYCHO CIRCUS Whle
it
might not out-quake Quake or
Out Trigger (pun absolutely
out-trigger
intended), KISS of the gate.
will
be the
first
FPS out
A straight-up shooter,
Psycho Circus doesn’t bog players down in
anything except piles of fresh
corpses. Give
demo
disc,
it
a try on this month’s
and see
if it
moves
you.
HEAVY METAL FAKK 2 Heavy Metal: FAKK
2:
While technically
not a first-person shooter, of running
plays very
FAKK 2
is full
and gunning mayhem, and like a FPS. The PC
much
was
version
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very positive reviews, receiving praise for
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it's
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the sprawling urban environment.
and varying quiver of spray paints,
it's
you against the world.
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HOOPS MANIACS REJOICE: YOUR SAVIOR IS AT HAND NFL 2K1 has been
getting all the -
press these days (see our four-
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Pr% basketball
( 1 •
page review beginning on page 30), but hoops fans shouldn’t despair—
NBA 2K1
is
looking every
bit
you’ll
as
mm mAh
Just sign on, find a lobby,
challenge someone, and get going. Basketball
is
faster-paced than
and has fewer breaks— but
football,
SegaNet
is
up to the challenge.
you’re playing
If
someone who happens
to have a connection that’s either
good or
excellent,
it
feels
almost
you’re both playing on the
like
same
You’ll also be able to download updated rosters to
system.
keep
all
the teams up to date.
Even without the online
component, NBA 2K1
is an awesome new moves (like new swat and the ability to pass out of layups and rebounds. Player models have been updated with more (and more detailed) facial expressions, and Visual Concepts did tons of new
upgrade. There are
spins and crossovers), blocks,
motion capture so that animations will
be better than ever—and new
camera angles will help you enjoy the new animations, too. Oh, and the Al and playbooks have been totally redone, with smarter players and more comprehensive playbooks that add even more depth. The improvements don’t stop with gameplay, either. A franchise mode lets you be the GM, drafting rookies
and managing trades to build the ultimate team, and you can even create your own custom leagues. Arenas have been tweaked to be the ultimate
3D
representations of
any sports experience, and famous street courts from around the country are
in
place now, too—along with
legandary players from decades past. And while a full season still takes almost an entire VMU to save, if you want to save your play options, you’ll only need a few blocks. Bottom line: What NFL 2K1 is to
just
football,
NBA 2K1
is
to basketball—
the best virtual version of the sport ever. Sega/Visual Concepts: November
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has
its
work cut out for
but the to
fix
company
is
it
with
WSB 2K2
hard at work trying
what’s wrong (which
is
almost
everything but the fantastic graphics)-
and adding, play.
of course, support for online
With the
2K2 titles, Sega (we
through the grapevine)
is
hear
planning to
add more than just lobbies and games, and WSB 2K2 should feature support for custom ladders and leagues as well as
opponents online...you can’t beat
straight head-to-head matches. Sega/2001
that for fun. Even losing would be
Virtua Tennis against
human
the second best thing ever.
VIRTUA TENNIS Ok,
But after Virtua Tennis turned
out to be the surprise Virtua Tennis
2
conclusion: as if
2
we admit it. Sega ain’t talking about
this one.
is is
hit
of the summer,
almost a foregone an online option. Now,
Sega can only license some tennis
players we’ve heard
of,
our
lives will
perfect lovely
be
And our lives will be even more one of those players is the Anna Kournikova. sega/2001
perfect.
if
we
new hockey the good news is that
probably won’t have a
game this year, next year the game
should be up to the
standard established by Visual Concepts with
NFL 2K1 and NBA 2K1,
with
graphics and animation. Hockey of the greatest
While NHL2K has opted to bow out of the lineup, expect next year’s version to be an online smash.
KLD $0
NHL 2K2 Sega’s pulled this one back into the house, and while the bad news is that
games to
killer
is
)
2
OU T
one and
play online,
with the addition of an online option
next year, in
DC should be unbeatable
sports. Sega/Visual Concepts: 2001
Though
WSB2K1 was
disappointing
(especially in light of the franchise’s usual stellar gameplay), Visual Concepts promises a homerun next time around.
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SPEED DEVILS ONLINE THE LITTLE RACING GAME THAT COULD TAKES ITS BIG ACT ONLINE One of the most popular racing games to surface at DC’s launch last year was a small, unassuming PC arcade racer by the name of Speed Devils. Including quirks like
rampaging dinosaurs and attacks by flaming wreckage, Speed Devils ran
smack dab
into big time success. The mix of over-the-top elements and simple gameplay raised the bar for other arcade racing titles.
For the quasi-sequel,
UbiSoft
is
SD
Online,
With the network option for Speed Devils Online in place, be able to race up to four other players online while using the betting option to win virtual cash.
saying ‘Screw that bar!’
and opting
you'll
new one— new roadsters
to create a
bolstered by eleven
(added to the eleven original vehicles, for a total of 22), a new track to
accompany the seven and, best of
all,
original ones,
online head-to-head
Up
racing action.
to five players
across the US can vie for
an
their
first
from
place
in
race to the finish, while
all-out
putting their virtual
mouths
money where
are. Yes, betting
is
back! You’ll be wagering against
and strangers on SegaNET
friends
ii
order to finance car upgrades
(and
inflate
your online ego).
New models in Speed Devils Online
will
futuristic
details.
sport speedier frames,
a
:
designs and whacked-out
But the buck doesn’t stop
there. UbiSoft
has also implemented
new ‘Persona
Creation’
mode
for
the really finicky net racing junkie, which
will
enable you to customize the profile of your Net
persona and give you a place to post your past scores.
We expect
big
things from this title.. .including
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playable copy, any
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With
cl;
is back in business and ready to support up racers simultaneously on the network.
DAYTONA USA: NETWORK RACING Sv
tc
gamers can
veteran
Time Attack and Custom Car Option— plus new Online and Mirror
those long weekends and
modes.. .and Sega’s in-house team,
game, and those sleepless nights spent screaming around the tracks with our
Versus,
still
we poured
quarters that
Amusement Vision, has been
punch when we received news of a DC
work tweaking the original’s graphics and handling to suit the added power
Saturn conversions. We're
of Dreamcast.
deluxe arcade unit of
classic,
elation
Daytona USA. Imagine our
when we
discovered that
it
will
Visually,
the
game
hard at
uses a classic feel
rolls of
into the
We were as pleased as arcade-brand conversion of that dear old arcade
Daytona USA is Just one of the many arcade conversions that Dreamcast will use to its
remember
the usual suspects—Arcade, Original,
arcade
we
With tight
both online and
spanking new version of the
anxious to get our hands on Daytona
off.
There are eight
circuits currently
game modes span
While this may not sit too well with you young whippersnappers who’re
accustomed
to 128bit eye candy,
we
play.
thrilled.
it.
and simple graphics to support the action, so don’t go expecting a brand-
planned, and loads of different cars to
SegaNet
time” by Sega
all
don’t doubt
be able to house up to ten competing racers in a whole caboodle of modes,
choose from. The
in
as “the highest grossing
Billed
America,
gameplay and some serious tread on
original.
advantage
the franchise’s track record, we’re
USA: Network Racing. We’ve said before and we’ll say
it
again:
next issue! Sega/Amusement
it
More news,
Vision: Q1 2001
is a purely wheel-based which could disappoint fans of Toy
Toy Racer
FREE TOYS FOR EVERYONE?
racer,
Commander’s it
combat scenes— but
we finished No Cliche’s Toy Commander, we’ve been wanting more
tanks, etc.
of that intuitive gameplay, creative
weapons and extras such as machine
design and addictive fun. The only thing
guns, missiles, tornadoes, mines, ice
missing was a
lakes and fog, while avoiding “bad
Ever since
fully developed mode and the capacity to face opponents online. Apparently, the Sega-owned French developer has been listening to our cries and has created a game that’s less a
multiplayer
sequel than
it
is
wanted to
really
Agartha, too. So
game
will
be a fun
games of
its
be very ashamed), Toy Racer be released as a freebie title to Rally,
introduce Sega of Europe’s online
network to the masses (without Chu
‘mini’
with 4-player split-screen and
screen network modes.”
game sounds more
kind on Dreamcast (be ashamed, South
was announced
put four people on
the job and the result
‘instant snail-pace’—to
Although the
elaborate than most other
Chu’s lag times), but no
ODCM, “But we
focus our strengths on
we
bonuses”— like survive the fun.
will
“After Toy Commander, we really wanted to develop an online Toy Commander,” Creative Director
Frederick Raynal tells
Players must also frantically collect
Park
a purely multiplayer/
online racing offshoot.
dreamcastmagazine.com
aerial
promises a wide choice of cars, trucks,
full-
If
US
release
at press time.
you’re nice to us (and
keep sending
those fan letters/threats to Sega),
maybe
you’ll
GD-ROM favorite
soon find the game on the packed with your
that’s
magazine.
December 2000
Official
Dreamcast Magazine
51
UbiSoft’s second foray into online racing opts for a futuristic take. Alien-esque vehicles and clever course design point Pod: Speed Zone in the arcade direction.
UbiSoft terms “interactive events”.
Following a storyline set
SPEED ZONE
players
will literally
The racing genre can already be
in
divided into an overwhelming
(as
amount of subcategories, but it seems that—yet again— UbiSoft
disease that
hand
to create another one.
futuristic
sci-fi
fully
on
Pod:
equipped with a
storyline, loads of special
modes and
is
a
game
ten highly responsive
race for their
in,
faster than a hovercraft) is
about
How’s that
Online features
head-to-head
in
to
take over the
for motivation? will pit
special
players
modes
have yet to be revealed, but
game its
lives
order to outdistance a fast-moving
planet.
Out of a
mood swing comes
Speed Zone,
in
desert wasteland called Damethra,
is
if
that
the
anything close to resembling
PC psuedo-counterpart POD
II,
have both hands full of downloadable vehicles (as well as you’ll
player-created craft). Cool factoid:
The environment’s changes response to the disease
in
will
directly affect your hovercraft,
shaping
it
into
new forms
that
remain unique from player to player. Sweet. Ubisoft: Q4 2000
tracks packed with something that
The current trend
games
for
in
racing
the Internet
is
wont,
of course, to include ranking
modes; racers
like
Acclaim’s
Vanishing Point and AM2’s
arcade sim Ferrari F355 Challenge both include options to upload your rankings. Ferrari
goes a step further by enabling gamers to upload their best times, which can then be downloaded so you can race the “ghosts” of said times. And Acclaim will soon be starting contests on its website, which will
reward players who reach
the Top
20 on the
ranking.
So
leave your engines running!
In >0<iail
Dreamcast Magazine December 2000
Pod: Speed Zone, you'll have to pass through
and not so strange
terrain, like a tunnel.
some strange
terrain,
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18-WHEELER AMERICAN PRO TRUCKER While Sega
Sort of like a cross-country,
features
multi-axled Crazy Taxi, 18-Wheeler
many
is
in
is being rather quiet about the network 18-Wheeler, we’re anxious to find out how it will support across the Internet.
players
looking sharp.. .but vague. Packed with
mini-games and a race
mode
full-on cross-country
(which includes sim
elements and an angry
rival
trucker
ready to beat you to the finish the
game
is
line),
set to feature online
gameplay— but SOA has been reluctant to divulge details on exactly how these be implemented. 18-Wheeler promises to offer addictively weird fun as its
Internet functions will Still,
just as
much
GORKA NORKA in
Coming Soon
(ODCM
#08), Ripcord
arcade cousin does, from options to choose your own cargo to mini-games
As previewed
between stages that’ll reward you with cool items— like super phat fuzzy dice
ready to throw
for your mirror. Did
strange
game?
we
Yeah,
I
say this was a
we make
think
that sure as heck doesn’t
less tempting. Sega/AM2: Q1 2001
did. it
But
any
last issue
its
is
hat into the online
combat racing ring. Based on some of the themes and characters found in the
Warhammer series, you’ll member of a roving band who’ve taken
it
play as a of Orks
upon themselves
Gorka Morka
will let two
to
people
play cooperatively while controlling the
35
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same
vehicle.
race
in
audience that can turn ugly as qiridkfyV
violent competitions as
entertainment for the masses. Every is equipped with a gun turret and any number of features that can be upgraded throughout the game. In fact, your success will depend
vehicle
on the customization of your
car,
as
as Madonna’s hair
styles.
Players can take their race well, with
up
to
cooperatively driving,
in
-
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online^
two people playing one vehicle: one plaj#;;
and the other shooting the yX* AncfybU •
turret in split-screen off line.
you’re not only pitted against your
can expect
fellow Ores, but against a fickle
as well!
to
go up against PC pfayeriK
Ripcord Games/Real Sports: 200T
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PREPARE TO TAKE ROLEPLAYING
As one of the most anticipated games for RPG fans and DC owners alike,
Sonic Team’s Phantasy Star
ROLEPLAYING EVOLUTION! or off in order to build up stats collect
new
items. All of this
impressive enough, but the
Online represents what could be the
is
pinnacle of current next-generation
will retain all
gaming, roleplaying or otherwise. But up until now, it’s been difficult to
make
track
down any hard
information on
you’ll
PSO
coup
either
vice versa.
will
medium,
^3
play as a standin
either
mode, but those who opt
But now, the floodgates
to
teaming up with
take their
game
will
bashing your way through the
h»
be pleased to
note that there are
own
£/
to
SegaNET
the arena of
three other players online and
landscape, using your
in
and
alone adventure
are finally beginning to open. Just imagine
real
changes that you So be rewarded for time of the
offline,
with no holds barred.
title’s specifics. Yuji
of Sonic
particulars.
to
the fact that your online character
spent
Naka, head Team, has been especially tightlipped about gameplay the
and
is
'
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ff //
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online exclusive quests
customized character. You’re able to use the in-game character editor to
not found player
in
the single-
game.
choose your warrior’s class (Ranger, Hunter, or Force), race (human, Newman or Android), and physical
is
attributes—while playing either online
orbiting
In
either
Y
case, you’ll find that there
one town
(a la Time Stalkers, which exists on an space station.
Evolution),
From the option to edit your character's attributes to the abilities to solve puzzles and overcome obstacles with the help of three other gamers, PSO is quite possibly what fans have been clamoring for since Dreamcast's inception.
^
Crossover in the items category enable some classes to swap
will
weapons with
others.
I
From what we’ve seen of the game, we’re more than ready for a
around the solar system;
trip
this
may very well
be THE
definitive next step in next-
\
generation roleplaying. It’s all
,
/
online
here L
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good: Realtime
combat
(with pixies!),
we come! Sega/Sonic Team: Q1 2001
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LEGEND OF THE BLADEMASTERS Using a PC-type strategy, Ripcord’s
console debut into the roleplaying field will
feature
traditional online
much more gameplay. With a
stand-alone single-player adventure concentrating on action-oriented
combat, there
is
a plethora of
multiplayer online mini-games
works
for
in
the
m
Blademasters as well-
including cool gigs like Capture the
Flag and Deathmatch Mode. You’ll five
be able to use any of the
playable characters within the
game, including Olara or Erik (the two main characters), and you can exploit each of their specific abilities whether they be magic intensive or
action focused.
And
it
there—the main quest
Blademasters takes a
little
of the best of both worlds (PC
and console)
in
order to dish out a very impressive-looking adventure.
doesn’t stop itself is
open
to cooperative or competitive
gameplay over the
internet,
each of the 41 different a
new
making
game
levels
experience.
was
a long time as one of the SegaNET launch
Although
it
listed for
games, Blademasters is sitting out until the coming year to ensure that its online capabilities are up to snuff. We’re itching to get our hands on
this one. Ripcord/Ronin: 2001
Even the RPG crowd isn’t exempt from Sega’s/push to include Internet functions in all of its
upcoming games.
SKIES OF ARCADIA: ONLINE? Although Sega’s uber-RPG Skies of Arcadia won’t necessarily be an ‘online’ game, don’t leave it out of the SegaNET equation all together. The game’s product manager has let slip an interesting tidbit concerning the game and its downloads. Apparently, using the VMU and the modem, you’ll be able to download spankin’ new flags for your pirate ship through the game’s website. Gee, golly whiz, that’s great and all, but the flags do more than decorate your flying abode. Certain flags will enable players to discover new monsters, rare items and even (drum roll please) a new, hidden island to explore! How cool is that? Get those
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SIMS
BLACK AND NHITE AND YET SD FAR FROM IT... Unless we've
all
from the same
been smoking it seems safe to
pipe,
forthcoming Black and White of the
most
ever created.
Its
revolutionary
paradigm-jarring graphics
it’s
into
a
will
be
games
freeform gameplay,
intensely original concepts
gamers
and send
will
tizzy.. .and trust us,
the good kind.
While
it’s
describe, the
somewhat
game
is
difficult to
essentially a
full-scale god-simulation. Players
take control of a
deity,
and
their
primary concern becomes developing this creature into
is
an all-powerful god.
B&W
Every time we get a new batch of screens, we say, “This game can't possibly get any prettier.” And then it does.
learning from you
“From the way you
say that Peter Molyneaux’s
one
“Your creature
the entire time,” says Molyneaux. to the
treat your people
way you act toward your it remembers everything
creature,
you do.
Its
future personality will be
based on your will
actions.” Not only
your relations with people and
environment affect your creature’s development, but you can also take a
more formative punishing
it
role in
its life
directly (read:
by
smacking
and/or tickling it). If you insert a music CD while playing, the program will
remember the
disc’s ID
Depending on how you
number.
treat the
CD
creature while a creature
will
is
playing, your
either cover
become uncooperative
its
or
ears and
dance
the next time you play that CD.
gaily
A
Clockwork Orange, anyone? Beyond all of these experiemental
Your relationships with other characters and even with the environments around you will affect the development of your creature. Now you’ll find out exactly how hard it Is to raise a good kid.
notions, much of the gameplay comes down to battling it out with rival
deities—which
online element
is
where the
comes in. Although it we couldn’t be any
has been delayed,
more
excited about Black
and White.
Sega/Lionhead: February 2001
Hmmm.
Could be Monet. Could be Renoir. Skies and landscapes
in this
game have
a painterly
quality that’s rarely
been equalled.
“F355 CHALLENGE LEADS THE RACE FOR THE [MOST] REALISTIC DRIVING SIMULATION EVER... TRULY SOME GIFT FROM THE GODS” Gamers’ Republic
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Get up close and personal
in
the first-person
perspective with over 10 weapons of destruction!
Screenshots are from the PlayStation®2 system.
to 8 players on your Sega Dreamcast'", play 2- or 4-player split screen, or
Go online with up network
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systems with i.LINIC
Experience dazzling graphics and a multitude
maps and weapons it’s
Unreal™ Tournament's single
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all in
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Lead your team
of virtual
teammates against the deadliest
the galaxy. Mind-blowing realistic
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in
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combat
action.
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OUR FINAL FRONTIER NEETS GANING’S FINAL FRONTIER
SPACE
Crave's entry into hyperspace is beginning to take solid shape, as the
storyline
4th Quarter release date nears for
a real rush.. .online or
PC
to
DC StarLancer. SL
will
its
backing up
its
beauty and
firepower, StarLancer promises to be
leave the
off.
Crave/Digital Anvil:
November 2000
launchpad with quite a handful of online-compatible modes,
across the void known as
in which— SegaNet—
up to eight different sharpshooters will
soon be going
for their
enemies’
Though we have yet to see hide or
metal-clad throats. You’ll also
to three other
be able to play with up buddies in the game’s
cooperative mode, choosing your
spaceship from a available
field of
twelve
models that feature
approximately eleven different
Exhilarating, for one. This will
stuck
first try
be us
at a genre
in
the
PC arena—complete with
which
(released
will
a ten-minute
take players back
in ’98),
ships and the introduction of
much
branching story paths and a plethora
more “open-ended”
of missions (which ensure that you
sequences between stages are also planned.
game
overnight).
Independence War 2 is still slated DC online debut. [PC Screen]
for
And with an epic
game
where 100 years
have already passed. Many of the game’s features will be left intact, but elements like upgradable
first
won’t be able to race through the
Infogrames’ space shooter-fest
a
game features
intro,
really like to
is
cracking along at good speed.
The
into the universe of the original
it
play StarLancer across the net?
Crave s PC-to-DC action shooter, StarLancer, is aiming to be first of its kind in the DC library. With its good looks shift from first online action shooter to best online action shooter.
its much-hyped space shooter Independence War 2, the project still
numbers—what’s
that has been, up until now, rigidly
and multiplayer features, the category may
hair of Particle Systems’ scheduled debut on Dreamcast in the form of
weapons. But enough of the
console gamers’
the very
INDEPENDENCE MAR 2
While
many
exploration
of the multiplayer
a
features have yet to be confirmed for the
DC
A fan
version of Iwar 2, we’d
be shocked
if
some
make
favorite after the
original's release on PC, System Shock 2 promises plenty of cool story to back up the game’s action
version of the PC’s
internet options didn’t
into the
package in the end. Expect more news on Iwar 2 for DC as it happens.
premise. [PC screens]
Infogrames/Particle Systems: 2001
roleplaying elements. Now, with online
support
SYSTEM SHOCK With the original
still
countless fanfics from
2
again— but
this
time
its
buddies were, of course, out cold
that can be collected within the
in
players to take part
in
the action. Every
aspect of gameplay takes place realtime,
and cool online
make
the
title
even more appealing,
especially since the
amount
(1.2 million different items,
occurred—so now you’re left with a ghost ship on which no other humans seemed to have survived (except for a
also be an option for
female doctor who serves as your only ally). Things go from bad to worse as the ship’s fully sentient computers
to give
that
is
game
told) is will
you a massive update
in
our
next issue. Metro3D: 2001
amokMetro3D
organic. is
all
gamers everywhere. The game is set to ship sometime early next year, and we’ll do our best
Many—
group of hostile aliens running all
of goodies
unprecedented. And six-player races
the original) control
System Shock 2
in
activities— like
trading items with other players—will
cryogenic sleep while the whole thing
control
be
the
space shooter/RPG hybrid to the Net, enabling up to four
tried-and-true
(SHODAN from
it
entirely
cult
System Shock 2 is about to make ODCM a card-carrying member of the series fanbase, as well— and we’re not kidding. With a plot modeled after the best sci-fi tales, SS2 puts players in the shoes of one of the survivors on a civilian ship that has met with a mysterious disaster. You and your
following,
the machinery, and The
at
is
offering will
more ambitious. Armada 2: Exodus will take
spawning its loyal
company
place, the
in
action
set to have
is
game
still
so
development and so tightly underwraps by Irrational, it’s difficult tell if they will end up in the final
to
online usage, but with the
set to give gamers a taste of online
and online roleplaying with its follow-up Armada in Armada Z Exodus.
last year's
multiplayer capabilities that support
,
to
'
early in
product. Not that we’re complaining.
With a story this cool and proven gameplay, we’ll take it online or off. Vatical/Looking Glass-Irrational Games: 2001
ARMADA One
2:
EXDDUS
of the earliest titles to launch
on Dreamcast, Metro3D’s Armada an eager fan-following based on
built
the game’s immersive universe and
ARMADA
2
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FUTURAMA
ARCADES:
THE NEXT STEP
Now that massively multiplayer online games are commonplace (and downloadable cell phone vidgames are getting more popular by the day), arcades are desperately trying to catch up in the online vidgame sweepstakes. Sega
is
the fastest of the arcade slowpokes, rolling out a
new concept
called
commanded networked
teams to focus on network-friendly games. Early StageNet@ include Hundred Swords, Finger Tip Golf,
his creative
titles in
Search Heat and Fighting XO. None are massively multiplayer, but up to eight remote players can compete on one circuit. The same is true, by the way, of
Entertainment
Alien Front Online,
StageNet@ in this summer. Sega has already begun wiring its Japanese
the online arcade
*
Japan
game
that
Sega
launched this
fall in
the USA. Running
on Sega's Naomi '
arcades with lgig
system—the arcade
pbs fiberoptic cable, a technology that boosts transmission speeds up
8,000 times faster than ISDN. Even
better,
the player interface
in
to
these online
play parlors will consist of dedicated network terminals with touchscreen
monitors and
CCD cameras.
Meanwhile, back
in
the
sister to
Dreamcast—Alien Front Online features tank action against invading Washington DC and Tokyo backdrops. But
alien machines, set against realistic
AOF
plugs into a standard phone
line,
not a fiberoptic network
Besides remote interactive gameplay, StageNet@
R&D
lab,
Sega Chairman
Isao
Okawa has
will
also offer movies,
music, and various hi-tech gadgets and diversions. Think variations on the
vidphones and soap operas. StageNet@ is pointedly designed to attract all kinds of people— including non-gamers. Sega plans 20 StageNet@ sites online by Spring 2001...and “virtual pet” idea, long-distance Internet
virtual
600 sites online by 2003. Eventually, Sega’s Japanese arcade empire will be online. As for bringing the concept to
entire
America, “Something could be seen
in
US and Europe
the
within
a year,” said Sega's Howell
Ivy.
“The US
already has the infrastructure to
support the network.”
Thanks
to
Sega’s innovations,
the big bad wolves of
Sony and Microsoft are
going to have a tough time blowing Sonic’s house down.
SO, On the
WHAT ABOUT DREAMCAST? horizon, there are obviously tons of
development
Dreamcast that
games
in
keep players connected, but info is slim on two of the most exciting titles: Sonic Adventure 2 and Ecco the Dolphin 2. Sonic Team has been slowly revealing information and game specifics about its mascot's for
will
journey into the ethernet, screenshot by screenshot
(most recently at a net event at the end of September). But the whole picture isn’t yet clear enough to detail. Meanwhile, Appaloosa, developer of Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future hope to take the next installation of the unofficial Sega mascot mammal into bigger waters (i.e,, the Internet) sometime
OOal
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next year, as well.
And don’t forget potential blockbusters like Sega Europe and Amuze's 3D blowout, Headhunter, and No title,
Cliche's survival horror
Agartha. Both are getting gussied up for release late next year with online support in tow.
So does this mean that it’s a good time to own that little white and orange box known as Dreamcast? Hell, yes. Are there plenty of big just waiting to
name
titles
emerge from the modemland?
fiberoptic playground of Hell, yes. Will
reports on
SegaNet
in
all
is
Dreamcast and
every issue of
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enough
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exclusive
glimpse of their development tools in
Maya
3.0. Notice the
incredible character detail.
The story is dark, and the fear will come more from the monsters' behavior
and complex motivations than from their looks— even though these looks push every limit that’s been set so far.” FREDERIC RAYNAL
Agartha
Kirk's half-sister, Juliet, (she’s half Indian!
variety In
Hands up
games!)
important role
In
for racial
will play
an
the game.
No
Cliche leaves the safety of toys and living rooms enter a horrifying Romanian underworld
to
stuffed animals
the Dark—our first true horror adventure. The storyline, and deep gameplay impressed a global audience: oh, and it was
toys,
really, really scary.
a
or his
first
Dreamcast
game— Toy Commander— Frederic Raynal
created a cuddly world of
and plastic where a flooded bathroom was just about the worst
thing that could happen. this
ingenuous
game
How
ever
emerged from Raynal’s twisted brain, we’ll
never know, but the
in
Tech Talk
state-of-the-art graphics
engine
With Agartha, Raynal and his team want to strike a similar
chord. “There were
elements
many
the atmosphere AITD that never the game’s sequels-
of the first
back the nightmare. As co-founder of No Cliche and creative director of the Sega-owned triple-A team, Raynal introduced gamers to Alone
which actually weren’t created
returned
[in
by Raynal], but you’ll see
again
in
It is
of a small
artists use is
Maya
3.0
and our
very powerful, which a great deal of free-
them
dom," Raynal tells ODCM. The developer spared no expense to give us what could be the most realistic horror adventure ever made. "We sent a team to Romania to take lots of pictures," the creative director explains. "We're using these for our environments
and textures coherent and
to create a very realistic world."
in
dream was short lived. With Agartha, he welcomes fluffy
"Our gives
them
Agartha."
the winter of 1929.
landslide has destroyed
A
most
earthquake.
"According to a real myth, Agartha
subterranean city hidden at the center of the earth," Raynal explains. "It is where all the most diabolical is
creatures (even humans) that our planet has ever known reside and come from."
who’s spe-
phenomena, Juliet, his half-sisand nurse and a military team are sent out to rescue any survivors. What they don’t know yet is that the landslide ter
uncovered the entrance
to the
Agartha, capital of the
demonic underworld. Kirk can either save as
a
somewhere
Kirk,
cialized in these sorts of
city of
Agar-what?
Romanian mountain
village during a mysterious
many innocents as help the forces of
possible, or
evil in
their
mission to take over the
earth—the story in
will
be entirely
the player’s hands. “Agartha mttw.DailyRadar.CQm
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INCOMING! All
Dreamcast,
the time: planned releases for
all
Max Steel
Action
Oct
Sno Cross
Int.
Oct
Soldier of Fortune Action/Shooter
Ms. PacMan Maze Mad. Action
Oct
Sonic Shuffle Multiplayer Puzzle
Nov
NBA2K1 Sports PBA Pro Bowling Tour Sports
Oct
Speed Devils Online Racing
Nov
Oct
Stunt
POD: Speed Zone Action
Oct
System Shock 2 Shooter/RPG
Nov
Qbert Arcade
Oct
The Next
Nov Nov
FPS
Half-Life
Metropolis Street Racer Racing
a developer has understood that you need a backpack to carry all those goodies and monster-repellents. Kirk appears to carry a truckload! The flashlight, a crucial part of the gameplay, shows off Agartha's amazing lighting effects. Evil may be hiding around every (dimly lit) corner.
be the
game
first
acters. Of course, the
adventure
to give the player total
freedom,” Raynal
tells
ODCM.
will
be very hard to
scenario you’ll
is
in real life:
make many
you have to
date, Raynal defaults to withering French rhetoric.
done when Hey, that’s
choices.”
it’s
secretive,
himself are friends or enemies.
offer
game
for adults,”
Raynal says. “The story
and the fear
will
be
done,” he says.
good enough JORG
demons, archangels, the living dead and even the Sentinel a
“It will
for us.
S.
TITTEL
Although details are very vague and No Cliche remains
assess whether people,
is
It’s
for a release
conceived so that
constantly have to
"Agartha
finish that
way, but never impossible. just like
According to Raynal, the
When asked
game
is
dark,
come more
from the monsters’ behavior
and complex motivations than from their looks— even though these looks push every limit that’s been set so far. You decide whether to kill them or not— and if you like, you can kill everyone. Even the main charwww.dieamcastmagazine.com
be the
Agartha should also
first
horror adventure to
a true online multiplayer mode. Mini network adventures
Tomb Raider Chronicles Adventure
Sega Marine Fishing Fishing Silent Scope Arcade Shooter Spawn FPS
Oct
Bang! Gunship
Oct
Dark Angel Action
Oct
Dino Crisis Action
Starlancer Online Shooter
Oct
Extreme Sports Sports
Stupid Invaders Adventure
Oct
IHRA Drag Racing Racing
The Grinch Platformer
Oct
World's Deadl. Pol. Chases Driving
FPS
team
play
and
deathmatch modes are in the works, but we’ll have to wait a bit longer to see what exactly is
And our beloved
in store for us.
VMU
won’t feel
because “one puzzles
on the
will
VMU
left out, either,
game’s be solved
of the
have to
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title
from an estab-
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Test Drive
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handle like? Will
it
it
control
smoothly? What are the online features?
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great looking thrills to spare,
[_]
game with plenty of we can't wait to check
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Oct
Vanishing Point Racing
Nov
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Capcom
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Dragon Riders Adventure
Nov
Daytona: Network Racer Racing
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ECW Anarchy
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Worms
Pinball Arcade
Nov
Party Multiplayer
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Nov
Evil
Dead: Hail to the King Action
Nov
Gunbird 2 Shooter
Evil
Twin: Cyprien’s Chron. Adventure
Nov
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Nov
Independence War 2 Shooter
Ruiz Wrestling
&
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Fighting
Floigan Brothers Action
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Nov
Legend
Nov
NBA Hoopz Sports
Nov
Phantasy Star Online Online RPG
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Jet Grind Radio Action
Nov
Soul Reaver
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Shrapnel Action
Nov
2 Adventure 18 Wheeler Ampro Trucker
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of
Hits:
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Magic 3 RPG
Games Casino
’01
Driving
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Matt Hoffman’s ProBMX Sports
Nov
Planet of the Apes Action
’01
Peacemakers
Strategy
Nov
Sonic Adv. 2 Platformer
’01
3D
Nov
’01
’01
Championship Surfer Sports
Nov
Spec Ops: Omega Squad Strategy Buffy the Vamp. Slayer Action
Roswell Conspiracy Theories Action
Nov
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out for ourselves...online! itself.”
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Elite
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that are unlocked throughout
the adventure,
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Champ. Racing
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Quake
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Oct
Buzz Lightyear Action/Adventure
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the Dark IV Adventure
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Ready 2 Rumble 2nd Rnd Sports
Nov
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Shenmue Adventure Skies of Arcadia RPG
Nov
Galleon Adventure
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Headhunter Adventure
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Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2 Sports
Nov
Heavy Metal FAKK Shooter
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Dec Dec
Picassio Action
’01
Quark RPG
’01
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Previews
“In
MSR,
driving skill
is
rewarded with
real, quantifiable ‘kudos’.” brandon justice
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H0*
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——
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for
power
snackin' anymore. Bizarre Creations have based its entire points system in MSR around the idea of “kudos’ rather than the typical From playing through numerous demos of the game, we can assuredly say that it’s a choice well made.
,
1/ *
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,
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stuff of racers.
Metropolis Street Racer anticipation
If
is
t’s not how you race. It's how you race fast The tagline for Metropolis Street Racer is nothing if not creative, but what, exactly, does it mean? The title was announced prior to the US launch of Dreamcast, and here we are in Year Two of the system’s lifecycle and
U
the
game
to pull In fact,
still
hasn’t
managed
up to the starting
line.
outside of a handful of
no what
seriously sexy screen shots,
one seems
to
know
exactly
developer Bizarre Creations
means when they say your typical is
‘this isn’t
racer’. Luckily,
ODCM
here to crank up the flood
lights
and show you which way
the road
is
headed.
The key element that
72
Bizarre
we’ve already had
half the fun, Creations banks on you’re a driving
is
in
And
MSR
aspires to tempt this pride with
40
which
will
cause smugness.
whiplash-inducing
most
racers, letting
instead earn
owner-
ship, pride in roadskill.
over
booster rocket-sized blast
a
hotrods froml3 manufacturers:
this
machine driven
by your pride. Pride
via a points ability will
has opted to avoid the
quantifiable Kudos.
typical
class-based progression found
in
gamers driving
be rewared with
‘real’,
The game contains more 250 challenges split up 25 chapters, and in order to advance (and earn new vehi-
than Car-rific! What's in MSR's garage? Practically everything as seen on this long comprehensive list from Bizarre Creations. We're still waiting for a Renault Le Car GT or Gremlin Challenge game. ALFA ROMEO: Alfa 156, GTV, Spider
MAZDA: MX-5, Miata, Eunos
Spec-R,
Silvia
Clio, Spider, Sport,
AUDI:
Roadster, RX-7
Cabriolet, Fairlady Z
TT Coupe, TT Roadster, A3
MERCEDES: SL, SLK
Cabriolet, Fairlady Z,
Megane Coupe TOYOTA:
Skyline GT-R
Celica
FIAT:
HMMN
Barchetta,
Coupe
GT-S
99, Celica
MITSUBISHI:
OPEL:
SS
GTO, FTO, Lancer
Speedster, Astra
Cabriolet, Celica
FORD: Mustang JENSEN:
Evolution, 3000GT,
Sports, Astra
Eclipse, Eclipse ’99,
PEUGEOT:
Eclipse Spyder
206, 306, 306
S-V8
TVR:
Cabriolet,
ROVER: MGR, MGF
Chimaera
Official# Dreamcast Magazine December
Coupe
II,
II
99, Celica
SS
Celica GT-Four,
Celica GT-S, MR-2,
406 Coupe
MR-S, Supra
VAUXHALL: VX220, Astra Coupe
MSR s world '
you’ll
experience.
After taking our build for a
we can
you we want to much as possible.
tell
experience as
2000
drive,
ment you can produce, the more Kudos you’ll earn—and the more
spin,
is
loose yet respon-
environments are
painstakingly rendered.
MSR
has already been a long time
into
but you can do it with style. Anyone can take a turn, but can they whip through it at 90 MPH? The more tire-screeching excite-
of
sive;
coming— haven’t we waited long enough? brandon justice
have to prove that
you not only know how to
RENAULT:
NISSAN: Silvia
cles), you’ll
Handling
new experiences
system—your
With regard to play, Bizarre
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we want
Minuses Will the
it
if
we
in
can't get it a racing sim
Bottom Line It's
of
in
a
[-]
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always had promise.. .and the more we see, the higher it climbs on our
it
must-have
list
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you must
deflect, defeat
and destroy
legions of Trade Federation droids, Sith assassins, alien creatures— and ultimately, Darth Maul himself!
The Jedi are now coming to Sega Dreamcast— to take advantage of
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Rogue Cajun sweetheart superhero Rogue has never carried a sniper rifle. As a member of the comic book superhero team X-Men, Rogue uses her superpowers to combat
evil in
forms. A tortured soul. Rogue lives with the curse of not being able to touch people all its
without stealing their powers or absorbing their consciousness. She is the
southern belle
who cannot lo
and has developed into one comics' most intriguing characters.
ol
In the barren snowy landscape of any nondescript Eastern European country, it's all about covert operations and loads of random terrorist killings. Movies and books show us that this is true, and we believe them. Oh, and there's
a videogame that details
Tom
all
of this stuff, too, called
Rogue Spear. But then, you already knew that.
Clancy’s Rainbow Six:
Rogue Spear More with the rogue-ing and
U
f
there's no pot of gold
add-on
warriors from the anti-terrorist
include a
bow, at least
Less with the spear-ing
complete Urban Operations will be thrown in for good measure. For those inclined toward long-distance
end of this Rainthere’ll be lots of dead bodies and hurt feelings. Those hardened at the
aggression, the
new
game
will
also
set of sniper fea-
subversives. Pre-mission plan-
ning allows a
team leader to
select his operatives (each has
Rogue Spear’s single-player mode sets up a tense storyline
from a sharpened stone and notched stick, and can perform many valuable
Rogue Spear will feature
involving
sequel to
Tom
tures; players have
Rainbow Six— and be a mulitplayer
A
port of the
Clancy’s
this time,
it’ll
access to
sniper specialists,
is
affair.
PC
favorite,
four-
two seemingly unre-
player action (sadly, Internet
lated terrorist strikes. After
support has not been
hostages are taken at a
announced) with modes survival, assassination,
like
save
your base and stronghold. Ten
new
playable characters
will
be added to the mix, and a
76
museum and an
airplane
hijacked by no-goodniks,
is
Team
Rainbow discovers a nefarious plot
hatched by the Russian
Mafia and Middle Eastern
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particular
and
skill set and weapons and
their paths across
Pipe
Dream and Majesco come
through, business
will
indeed
be gOOd. GREG ORLANDO
Spear
the Dreamcast iteration of
Team Rainbow have
returned to the Sega Dreamcast
own
items,
»—^Official
new weapons, and a slew of special planning and action phase controls.
bastion
his
capabilities), their
the map.
The spear has existed since the early homind Homo habilis walked the Earth approximately two million years ago. A crude yet elegant weapon, the spear
for the
Rogue Spear will offer players a new set of sniper features, which will help you draw a bead on your enemies from afar.
exceedingly easy to
make
functions. In addition to
being an exceedingly dangerous stabbing weapon (which may be used at a distance), the spear may also be hurled at a prospective target. It is also, clearly,
a fine tool for inspiring the
names
of game sequels.
A
pre-alpha version of Rogue Spear for the Dreamcast exists, but
it’s
too unstable to
already evident that the
people-hurters like Beretta 92s,
Character models
little
one
tightly
it
of the best
[-] will
make
One
its
ship date of
November, but we all remember game called Rainbow Six...
Bottom Line
move and react with far better realism. Team Rainbow has business—and
this is
Minuses late
Rainbow Six, and Majesco promises that these soupedup operatives will be able to in
killing its
Pluses [+] Dreamcast always needs more
structured espionage strategy shooters;
Hopefully
are notably sharper than those
made
t
Dreamcast
and
M-16s, and five variations on
H&K MP 5.
Magazine
1
game’s arsenal contains sundry
the
;
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sample
at great length. Nevertheless, it’s
1 -
of the
most
shooters on PC
a
[_]
highly praised strategy is
Dreamcast-bound!
Fans across the land are shouting and hoping for a timely release
for joy
if
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f
PS
Max Steel, a
to Dreamcast.” francesca reyes
DOOOODO
130-5)
St)
heads
student-turned-antiterrorist superhero finally
The game engine looks great, and it’s
new
all
for
Dreamcast (don’t worry,
has nothing
common
it
in
with
the Test Drive 6 engine, either)
Test Drive:
Le Mans 24 hours
1
t
game
flight
that those months of Tai Bo have worked out for our young abs-of-steel hero, Max. In fact, he's able to fancy combos and use all sorts of weaponry, including laser guns, in order to dispatch foes. Expect him all the skills of his CG animated Saturday morning counterpart.
seems
pull off
to
have
all
24 hours straight. Which
for
what Infogrames
about to
The
appreciate the
Every conceivable option is
included
cycles, tire
and features the top cars and classes from the actual
shorter durations (10,
event, including the seven-mile-
you
race,
long Le
Mans
attention for
24
game needs
to
a
man
hours, a racing
ans of Saturday morning CG series Max Steel, wake up! The
student-turned-antiterrorist-
superhero
is finally
Dreamcast— and
his
headed to upcoming
good and Al
can save during the race
to other
3D
like Draconus (Max Steel uses the Draconus
action titles
game
engine) or even
Raider, the
game
Tomb
takes place
the future. Goons lurk around
in
be quite interesting, indeed. Under development by Treyarch Draconus Tony Hawk-
every corner, looking to put
Max
out of action.
for
winter,
hit
shelves this
francesca reyes
|—wOllicialf's'Magazine
.
Dreamcast PUBLISHER MATTEL INTERACTIVE DEVELOPER TREYARCH GENRE ACTION ORIGIN US PLAYERS ONLINE NO RELEASE DATE DECEMBER
to get
good
Pluses
hours straight
injected with a super-secret
of which
Will
goo labeled “Nano-Tek Max genes.” He’s then suddenly a
sections).
superhuman dude who
ber of gadgets
answers
to the
name Max
Steel—and he’s decided to
make
a
life’s
work of ridding
www.dreamcastmagazine.CQm
is
divided into five
And
true to the cartoon,
in
it
for
in
well
Zen
of racing,
24
a fun (and
move
could be the
get
means that this best game in
the Test Drive series long,
up.
ability to quickly
“the zone," feeling the
you
in
a
longtime, chris charla
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are amazing,
fantastic lighting
also be wielding any
is
long
for its review
with incredible
You’ll
you’ll
is
in
winnable) battle to
TDLM’s
is
next month).
Minuses
televised
accidentally
you
The graphics
[+]
Improved Draconus engine means 3D cat's already in the bag and ready to go
its
is
you’re always
to
for us, since we’re
planning on playing
this
follows closely
A young man
happy
on the way to delivering one of the best racing games on Dreamcast (which is especially
use all of your fighting and a plethora of weapons to smack your way
game
the footsteps of
named Josh
if
sitting).
1
,
counterpart.
away with
report that Infogrames
through seven missions (each
in
one
enough that it never gets boring, and the Al is such that
skills
DC), the
all in
a breeze: the track
[cough *granturismo*cough].
Max Steel to
it
Racing Le Mans for two or even three hours at a strech
After playing a 90-percent
adventures are shaping up to
(
.
Comparable
if
your average “drive this path
games try
turbo and stealth modes. Look
60
or
to prove your
marathon (you
that’s exponentially better than
finished build, we’re
the world of terrorists.
want
can’t take
be almost
endlessly” stuff that lots of
of steel...
really
true 24-hour
perfect: great graphics, control, tons of cars
30
minutes, and 6 hours), but
mettle, you’ve got to go for the
track.
Of course, to hold your
The other
the big race:
in
and night damage, fuel usage and more. You can race for variable weather, day
based on the
is
famous Le Mans endurance
Max Steel
featuring nine tracks,
two classes and more than 40 cars— but ultimately, it’s all about the 10th track: Le Mans.
is
is
deliver.
game
nut, you’ll
steering assist.
mode
the missions.
based on a 24-hour
race that actually lets you race
exactly
if
sim
There's a championship
sim with a persistant
game
Or a
you’re not a
good, too, but
or physics, say. Or a
world through It
like a
with high
concept: super-realistic
damage
mayhem
of racing
ou have to
Y
1
num-
order to
rescue your kidnapped father— by punching through walls to discover secrets or by triggering
it
appeal
[-] to
those beyond the
cartoon's reach?
Is
Bottom Line A
licensed
it
too repetitive?
is
Max Steel
shaping up nicely despite the
dreaded license "curse."
effects (especially in
the rain
or at night),
[_]
3D adventure game might
not sound too tempting for those lured into similar traps before, but
track details and
and
cars that feature full
reflection
mapping. Control
is
December 2000
Official
# Dreamcast Magazine 77
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its
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Commandos from the
your
clutches of General Plastro
and the
An
evil
Tan army.
arsenal of explosive
weaponry
is
at your
fingertips, including
M-60
machine guns, bazookas, sniper
rifles,
flamethrowers,
grenade launchers, and more. For a
little
RSR,
play
mode with up to
battle
three friends, choosing from nine different characters.
Only you can bring peace to the Plastic World again.
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h,
luck, soldier!
HEaoisI
and watch your step.
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Previews
Game characters
have yet to learn that if something goes horribly wrong, they should always blame it on mutants or the supernatural. Instead, the gardenvariety virtual superhero usually chooses to shoot first and ask questions later—in lots of ellipse-infested text.
Edward Carnby can compete with the best of these freakish sharpshooters, thanks to AITD'S quasi-auto lock feature. And since our aim sucks, we say Thank you, Infogrames.
Alone in the Dark: Desperately seeking supernatural detective to investigate f
there’s one genre
Revolving around the super-
that
gamers can never enough of, it’s the Capcom-coined category
naturally-charged cases of a
get
young detective named Edward
Survival Horror. But
video-
the use of spooky storylines,
cracked up
action/puzzle gameplay and
game
horror
all it’s
be? We’ve seen
to
is
it
done
in th<
the series, Carnby
Carnby has traveled the globe, doing whatever a private dick
tackling the 128bit world of
Carnby, the series pioneered
has to do
horror
order to chase
in
down kidnapped
3D
polygonal graphics. Throughout
in
bump
the series’ three installments,
children
The
in
the fourth
Alone
in
is finally
the Dark:
New Nightmare.
title
appears as a young
of
man
eager
ness—the most successful, of course, being Capcom’s superb B-movie action-tastic Resident
Konami also took its spooky
actually started
back
in
Resident Evil
The Fear Factor '7
recognize tenor as the finest emotion and so
lllbleed
it
someone want to
kill
why
I
will try to
him),
all. ..way
© Dreamcast Magazine
he
was
Cue the player’s on Shadow Island...
located there.
But If I find that I cannot terrify. I will try and if I find that I cannot horrify, I’ll go for the grossr not proud." -Stephen King. Danse Macfibre
terrorize the reader.
out. I'm
his
an Maine
ancient tablets rumored to be
arrival
to horrify,
a
Traveling with a young According to Infogrames, AlTD’s developer Darkworks has followed King s three step program of fear to the nth degree,
anthropologist
named
Aline
opting to terrify readers with the unseen instead of going for the gross-out factor with lots of floating body parts. Herere a
HORROR: Resident
Cedrac, Carnby’s plane crashes
Going for more
onto Fiske's island. The two
few other games
thrills,
in
TERROR:
the genre that seem to see King's wisdom:
MU
Silent iKONAWf! Sheer tonor anyway you slice it. Konami's 70s horror-styled masterpiece has reduced even the most hardened, scare-
gamers into whimpering wish it was on Dream cast. proof
1993.
Official
As he
to
make
desperately searching for three
stab with
and diabolical gem Silent Hill, and Activision upped the ante on mutant-packed antics with Blue Stinger. But most gamers might be surprised to hear that an equally horrifying series called Alone in the Dark
84
(and why that might
discovers that his friend
varying degrees of effective-
brilliant
ing his friend’s death.
delves into the reasons island off the coast of
This time around, Carnby
several different ways, with
Evil series.
night!
to solve the mysteries surround-
buddy Fiske traveled
and
investigate untimely deaths.
And now,
in
apron-clutchers.
We
only
of
Evil series capcom] a jump-out-and-scare-you assortment of gaming on the map.
this is the series that put horror
THE GROSS-OUT: HlBleed Although
we have
sure bet that
it
provide plenty of chills through
it
s a
literal
(blood) spills, rather than through the soul-freezing dread that
Atone
in
the Dark has inspired over the years.
and are communicate with one another via walkie-talkies. From here, you can choose to only able to
.cumax graphics)
yet to play very far into this gorefest,
will
quickly get separated,
Shadow Island name? We think so)
journey across (portentous
December 2000
www.DailyRadar.com
“AITD: The
New Nightmare
contains a core of brain-teasingly tough puzzles,
all
of
which
will
send you scrambling.”
francesca reves
With over 3000 unique
camera angles, expect plenty of suspenseful scenes.
Watch out
•nemfes*
f oi^JFrosser’s
•.
As cows are to people of the Hindu religion or the coyote is to various Native American tribes, so the froggy is totemic for US gaming geeks.
Frogger 2 Is
Darkworks, AITD S developer, has ensured that every enemy you face will have different attack patterns to keep players on their toes. '
'
*
it
ou have to feel sorry It’s bad enough that he’s small, ugly and raised from tadpole to Kermit-form on a for Frogger.
diet of nothing but small insects. But his career options
are even
more limited— to
playing
Add
in traffic.
pretty
and bumbling beetles that you’ll be running (or hopping) from turn out to be part of a pretty inventive design.
The
your flashlight can
In fact,
their
little
seem
you
if
title
with. Expect to read
your flashlight while pumping
it
with
when we
title
to reckon
more on more
get a
We
aren't kidding!
and look
(an auto-aim feature built into
Spring 2001. francesca reyes
the
game enables you
this
even
in
But
you’ll
have to adjust your
to
each character areas of the
strategies accordingly
in
separate
same game map.
RELEASE DATE SPRING 2001
Pluses
of innovative
www.dreamcastmagazine.com
which
will
Swampy’s Revenge.
second appearance on
a modern console, Frogger
caught up
kiddies,
DC
it
little
of
to
[-] say
send you scrambling
to find special items. So, while
we
Pluses
pretty hard to hold
It’s
We
for us,
a
[+]
Frogger, fer cryin' out loud! And
he's looking
and playing
Minuses
and instead
Will this be a
of giving
real
good
We
gameplay-wise.
upgrade and leaving it at Hasbro has managed to push the concepts of ‘accident-prone’ and ‘frog’ to the
that,
December 2000
[-]
game
that appeals to
the traditionally hardcore audience of
out
[_]
the series with open only hope that it will do the
arms.
Magazine
PUBLISHER HASBRO DEVELOPER BLITZGAMES GENRE ARCADE/ACTION PLAYERS 1-4 ONLINE NO ORIGIN US RELEASE NOVEMBER
levels of single-player
action,
how it will turn
do love our horror gaming!
welcome back
same
brandon justice
for him.
after all these years.
Bottom Line We
is
^Official
and a
test-run,
a
him
The game features over
tight storyline
30 Minuses Too early
for a
found
may be
Dreamcast
complete
villain
of
little
is
yet another
in
platforming plot of kid-
the basic concept a graphical
series contains a core of brainteasingly tough puzzles,
make use
In his
of his
that against him. and a
to AITD. Every title in this
all
remake
expense it
unsettling to see
end up as road pizza again and again, there’s a very good chance that his jump to the next generation won’t be nearly as painful for us as it
out to prove that point
again, with a
[+]
Stellar backdrops
And action isn't the only game in town when it comes
is
little
subsequent rescue: but after popping the game into our PUBUSHER INFOGRAMES DEVELOPER DARKWORKS GENRE ACTION/ADVENTURE ORIGIN FRANCE PLAYERS 1 ONLINE NO
mies who aren’t shy about
more than their share of guns, knives, and flashlights (which
friend— but while
with a goofy
when
you're confronted with ene-
of this potential
at the
our spring-legged
napped
do
Both characters are equipped with
for its release in
semi-darkness).
stepping into the limelight.
as either Aline or Camby, completing different adventures as
into the office—
out round after round of lead
for
says!
complete build
all
comes
fun
Frogger2:
of rage. So,
this
it
was
guy out of a mess. Now, BlitzGames
oldschool adventures called
fit
you can simply stun
this
fairly
It could be a good game, who knows?
Sadly,
little
and you have a
into a
are facing a nocturnal enemy,
videogame world three times before with mixed results.
what
pitiful— but there
side of Resident Evil 2 or 3,
it
of
CG backdrops
an
games with creative new
nothing quite as addictive as trying to get the
virtual
—
party
monster’s attack or aggravate
problems.
also offers
variations.
lot in life
the prettiest
THIS ISN'T the first time that gamers have met up with Edward Camby. He's traveled through the
Infogrames' official character bio Camby likens him to "David Duchovny in The X-Files" and goes on to describe his relationships with women as "passionate but the call of duty is stronger and his ladyfriends don't put up with his frequent disappearances followed by long periods of silence and bad moods for long." No, really, this is
some
fair.
be your best weapon at certain It can either deter a
times.
Alone Again
Now add some
quar-
and things
nearly a decade,
your brain muscles and solving
game
addictive 4-player frog-fest,
to this
ter-hungry truck-dodger for
minions of darkness nip at you’ll be flexing
engine.
semis, angry hornets
rolling
classic arcade
just don’t
your heels,
so...
or not,
incorporating elements from
was corners).
it
him out as
’
rooms and shadowy
3D
F2 looks sharp. The steam-
Believe
the fact that Atari pimped
Yeah, Frogger s
technology to illuminate dark
hope
limits via a vibrant
croaking, eating bugs and
The hand-drawn pre-rendered backdrops in AITD: TNN are simply amazing and must be seen to be believed. The details and lighting effects are going to be spectacular on Dreamcast.
We
indeed hip to hop?
Y
"S
1
DC owners?
Bottom Line
[_]
Nostalgia for veterans.. .and noviceenough for the non-gamers in the household. Is it a win-win?
friendly
Official
# Dreamcast Magazine 85
COMINGSOOf
“Surf Rocket Riders
Previews
POSITION
TOTAL TIME 0
'
may be Y2K’s ticket to
57"750
catching
some DC
waves.” francesca reyes
TIME
LAP TIME l;:o
\57 ,, 783
BEST VAP Every course
in
Surf
Rocket Riders is divided up into three different lengths: full, middle and short. Beat 'em all and you’ll
move
to the next
area. ..so expect to see different stuff whenever
you're cruising through.
An
incredibly early build of Surf Rocket Riders showed off some very impressive character handling and graphical detail, but unfortunately it didn’t have all the tricks
If there ever was a sport that could be defined as “Extreme,” then jetskiing would have to be
and stunts in place just yet. Right now, the aspect that interests us most is the ability to “submarine” underwater to reach different areas and shortcuts.
it. Imagine 73HP under your feet and over water.. .and then try to get it to bunny hop.
rf
Rocket Riders
Another waterworld swims our way \ I
1 I
obody saw this one
I coming.. .not even us
k
“submarined” under (you can
apparently had a rather large card up
In
ODCM.
CRI
{Aerowings, Aerowings 2) has
its
sleeve, in the form of
(only this time, without Kevin Costner]
killer tricks like barrel rolls,
Tony Hawk Gets Wet. You can go up against a friend on a split
bunny hops and loops
screen
you’ll
submerge your jetski completely in order to discover new areas and cut lap times). But it doesn’t end there.
here at
be pulling off a slew of
in
modes— in other words, game could easily
order to grab the high score,
have been
various
loon
So get ready to stoke the and settle down for some
fire
serious winter playtime. More
than 15 watery courses await,
each spanning different lengths (short, middle, full) in three ‘real-
world’ locations.
quotes around
Why the
scare
‘real’? Well,
the
New York, Bahamas and Miami generally aren’t submerged beneath salt water, or packed with ramps and overreal
passes that beg to be jumped or
86
Battle
Mode, or
coolest feature
The Real Deal:
Rocket Rider will
Contrary to popular belief, you don't necessarily have to be a beerswilling frat boy in order to race around on a jetski. Nor do you have to be a martini-sipping James Bond superhero. All you need is $6,300 plus enough spare change to buy
'
in
Surf
defi-
be the Race Mode, like
your
typi-
Championship-type game,
with the additional bonus of levup your jetski as you win and continue. eling
FRANCESCA REYES
—
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t
Dreamcast PUB CRAVE DEV CRI GENRE RACING/SPORTS ORIGIN JAPAN PLAYERS -4 ONUNE YES [JAPAN), NO (US) RELEASE DATE DECEMBER
PLUSES
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:
hpG 6,300 rpm
waves. Look for in
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73
nitely
which works cal
THE crucial skintight jetski gear.
HORSEPOWER
and Championship Surfer—SRR may be 2000’s state-of-the-art Dreamcast it in December.
ticket to riding the
try
and technical attacks Challenge. But the
titled
a Japanese-developed jetski racer called Surf Rocket Riders.
in
your hand at completing bal-
this
LENGTH
[13/16 pitch)
88.2“ 12.25m)
The only real bummer about
MINUSES
SRR is the
All talk
fact that there isn’t
any online support, unlike the
26.8" 1.68m)
Japanese version. But since
it
[-] and no walk, as
Bottom Line
yet. Tick, tick...
[_]
the physics and controls fall into place, this could be a defining moment in the genre If
TYPE OF INTAKE Reed
Valve
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PUMP 144mm
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TRANSMISSION
Flow Single
Direct Drive
DRY WEIGHT
291lbs [132kg)
shares the genre with only two
FUEL CAPACITY 4.8 gal [18U
other
2000
games—Hydro Thunder
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The world's most insane tag-team fantasy fighting series
the
is
beyond belief in Marvel
vs.
Capcom 2 for
Sega Dream cast"! An unprecedented
total
of 56 playable characters include the debut of Jill
from Resident Evil", Tron and her Servebots and Cable from Marvel Comics fame. Experience
arcade perfect fighting with 3 on 3 tag-team unbelievable control
Pick a fight with legendary
and Super Heroes from prepare
to
battles,
and hyper-fast animation.
Capcom
characters
the Marvel Universe
and
be amazed.
Animated Violence
CAPCOM
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distinctive
Sega Dreamcast.
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Radio Running from the fuzz hasn't been this much fun since grade school. Now in Technicolor ike a kerosene bull in
absolutely, positively,
a fireworks factory
play this
constructed out of
must
game. And in roughly 1,263 words, here’s why.
matchsticks, Jet Grind Radio is
set to light the clear
autumn skies ablaze. Not only does it mark the release of yet another triple-A title,
but
it
Dreamcast
signals a virtual
gamers everyone of the most and
call-to-arms for
where: This
is
involving, well-designed
downright beautiful ever created, and sort of landmark
games
it’s
title
Jet Grind Radio
is
an example
of a wonderful premise
com-
bined with equally incredible execution,
all
served up on a
bed of the most gorgeous ingame graphics you have ever laid eyes on. For those who have not yet been fortunate to see JGR in action
enough
you slept on our
just the
(i.e.,
that
demo
disc), it’s
last
time to pre-
revitalizes one’s faith in
pare yourselves for a visual
videogames. If you have ever used the words ‘hardcore’ and
boot to the face. Seeing JGR
‘gamer’ (or
in
the
same sentence
even adjacent sentences)
to describe yourself, you
for the first
time
is
not unlike
being exposed to color
televi-
sion after years of black
white
snow—it’s
and
that good.
Welcome to JESTZONE esteemed review crew
This month’s
This is the true story
of five
gamers, picked to work
in
an
office with a fishpond and a Filterfresh coffemaker, and to review the very latest Dreamcast games. Asked why they’re worthy to tell
our dear readers what to buy and what not to buy, they gave us their proper street creds.
And then
it
was time
to dance.
GREGORY ORLANDO Street Cred: Formerly worked for Wizard magazine Little Known Fact: Taught high school Although the love of the Force
is
strong
in
Greg’s blood, he's taken
particular pleasure in demonstrating how Lucas Arts’ latest is a few midichlorians short of a six-pack. And George, if you're reading
this—we
still
love you, man...but get
it
together...
ROBSMOLKA Street Cred: Former PC Gamer Senior Editor Known Fact: Also likes non-sports games Little
Rob has the enviable job of being the sports game aficionado of office. Has he been pigeonholed like Christopher Walken into Who cares? He knows the game better than anyone.
the
this role?
CHRIS CHARLA Street Cred: Former NextGen Editor-in-Chief Little Known Fact: Loves irregular verbs
When
not playing games, Charla writes them. Check out his
est text adventure
in
lat-
the Interactive Fiction Competition 2000 Other entrants He did his in BASIC.
(details at http://www.textfire.com/compOO/).
did theirs in fancy languages like Inform.
EVAN SHAMOON Street Cred: Formerly short-order chef at Scottish pub Little Known Fact: Has girlfriend and English degree
We witnessed, firsthand, the agony that was Evan playing through JGR this month. All of his anger, joy and expletive-laden sorrow echoed through our hallowed halls. He says it was fun.
KEVIN RICE Street Cred: Hardware Editor at Daily Radar.com Little Known Fact: Loves the arcade stick technology
A trooper at heart, Kevin has taken on the role of unofficial track and field controller jockey. As a treat, we even let him drive our Ferrari... F355 Challenge, that is.
Our Scoring System No, pal, not that kind of scoring system. For that, you would need to talk to
Dave
C.,
Winona
who
gets
more
play than
Ryder. But not with
Winona
Ryder. Yet.
Using a completely original
must drop knowledge (and
graphics style (dubbed the “Cell
claim
territory)
through the
We score games on ille-
Shader” technique), JGR’s
gal art of graffiti. Your crew
appearance
the GG’s— a group of Krylon-
3D.
It’s
even
in
is
essentially flat
unlike anything you’ve
sprayin’ kats
videogame—or
Shibuya— but
ever seen
in
a
a full-length animated
film, for that
absolutely
matter—and
must be seen
hover overhead. Officer
whom
city, all
are fully intent on
same
of your problems.
government
goodness. A
in
a vat
futuristic, tricked-
out Neo-Tokyo called ‘Tokyo-to’ is
the stomping ground of sev-
eral rival
skate gangs,
who
Seeing JGR for the
is
The Japanese
attempting to
stop the grafitti-bombing youth
movement, and they’re pulling all the stops to keep it
out
down. While early stages are
defended by
little
more than a
first time is not unlike being exposed to color television after years of black and white snow— it’s that good. www.dreamcastmagaziae.CQm.
is
constantly on your
Online
teenage angst, dipped
Japanese
Onishima
turf
Fortunately, that’s the least
fueled by 100-percent pure
of deliciously hip
seeking, missile-equiped
gangs throughout the
you’re after. is
age,
gunship helicopters which
knocking up the
The game’s tasty premise
10.
nightsticks, you’ll eventually
against a host of different
of
in
motion to be believed.
is
based out of you’ll run up
squad of donut-munching be forced to go up against everything from tear gas-launching cops in full riot gear, to heatrag-tag
Goodness It
may seem
like a
tacked-on(line) feature,
but downloading your own tags is truly a genius addition to the game. You can design a piece on your computer or with JGR’s internal proggie, and download it into the (best)
game
(ever).
is
When we we
give
aimed
believe a
it
5 out
directly at
a scale of
game
of 10.
is
If its
1
to
just aver-
appeal
fans of either
its
its series but is not something be enjoyed by everyone, it gets And we’ve even added a scoring system for graphics, sound, control and gameplay!!
genre or that
instant classic
phenomenal excellent
7
good
6 5 4 3 2 1
for fans
will
6 out
of 10.
spiffy
new
Peripherals are another story. Since it
10 9 8
doesn't
make much sense to
score a
VMU
or an extension cord on a 1-10 an incredibly clever and cute smiley-face score system. We hope you’ll find it self-explanatory.
scale, we've created
Dream Game Award* With Dreamcast's promising software lineup, we won’t be hard-pressed to pick a game every issue that goes above and beyond the call of greatness. For this singular type of game, we’ve concocted our special award: the Dream Game Award. The title that is so duly honored is guaranteed to be good, no matter who you are or what type of games you like to play.
An
average
mediocre seriously flawed its
mom
loves
it
coaster
essential purchase!
* Small print
somewhere
in this
mag
secures your legal agreement to buy all titles immediately.
Dream Game Award
December 2QQQ-Qffitial 2 Dreamcast
Magazine.91
—
There are few games that simply do not allow you to put them down, and JGR is definitely one of them. Grinding across railings 30 feet above a bustling street with cops chasing you from behind and gunships hovering ominously overhead is an experience not to be missed. Put down this magazine and go pick up the game. Pronto.
Before you begin tagging public property, Sega warns you not to tag real public property. Hmm. Little
Known
Fact: Our
own
Francesca Reyes is the world’s best Jet Grind Radio player, bar none. No joke. She can beat the in four hours, knows every and can get a ‘JET rating on every single level. She trips the
game
secret,
light Frantastica.
as well, sporting a
tail
Overseas Please
longer
Sega has done quite a bit improve our Stateside version of Jet Grind Radio The game contains to
.
a whole new city to trick in clearly based on New
—
Canal.
dogs),
In
short:
had ever worked
Mixmaster Mike and Cold (thankfully, all of the original music has been included as well). Sega claims that our version is easier to pick up and play this is easy?
—
in
Hazzard
Duke would have been screwed like
a
Phillips’
head.
So. After choosing your char-
acter (“But they
all
look so
good!"), you’re supplied with a pair of rollerblades, a
spray-paint,
and additional
songs for the soundtrack were contributed by Jurassic 5, Rob Zombie,
Panama
these cops
if
County, Bo, Luke and Daisy
—
York City called Grind Square (which is just like Times Square, only without the $7.50 hot-
pistol
than—er, your tail— and a
jawline resembling the
and very
can of specific
While
it
would be easy to game for
trash cans and sending pedestrians running
memorable. Players are
you there.
about the huge cities their
3D
of
in all
way
around town with the greatest of ease.
K runs a pirate station— Jet Set Radio—and he not only flips the wax for your aural sor
The
is
part
little
quirks
in
of these
gameplay, Jet
Grind puts you there and keeps
ated physics
Essentially, your task is to in
the area, while keeping track of your time
limit, life
meter and
radically exagger-
the natural obstacles that
make
always
this activity
seem
to
be
in
your way.
the more enjoyable, and the ramped-up difficulty keeps you coming back time and again.
Active resistance, of course,
enjoyment, but also supplies
you with updated reports after
Also worthy of mention
so
each
level, letting
you know
what’s up with the cops (keisatsu)
and the clashing
all
is
the
some
ments:
Bump
a sign as you
and
sways back
and
players to the new U.S.specific functions.
Thigpen’s role as the radio DJ
a truck bed to
The Warriors (sans jeans and silly hat).
and the truck actually wobbles under your
Dreamcast Magazine December 2Q0Q
in the form of competgangs and the pesky po-po, have to stay aware of
you’ll
interactive detail in environ-
grind past
an updated version of Lynne tight
ing
your surroundings. And since
skate gangs. Think of him as
in
comes
absolutely staggering level of
and a tutorial mode has been added to introduce
>2 Official#
fear
many
dered. With so
tag every designated spot
splendor, skating,
grinding and tricking their
buck wild
DJ Profes-
in
and parcel of your job, and it has all been impeccably ren-
granted the freedom to roam
instructions regarding going in Tokyo-to.
weight. Knocking over bikes,
endlessly praise the
its wonderful premise and sumptuous graphics alone, Jet Grind is far more than just visual stimuli— it’s the accompanying stellar gameplay that makes the experience so
forth.
it,
it
Skate up the back of
level platform,
jump
to a high-
of the tags (thrown by a
series of impressively organic swirls of the
analog pad) take
longer than others, you’d better
be quick on the aerosol trigger if you want to stay healthy.
We
would be remiss
if
we www.DallvRa
9
“Jet
Grind Radio
is
a work of art masquerading as a videogame” EVAN shamoon
The comic-book cut-scenes are furnished with as much panache as were those in MDK2— but stylistically, no other game can even approach it. JGR has reached a whole new level of hiptitude.
Apparently, Tokyo’s daredevil drivers sleep during the day and come out at night, kind of like vampires—and they’re just as likely to kill you.
Xtremely not half-bad
a
omewhere deep
expressway, several di digitized
in
it modes
Tokyo’s notoriously
shady underbelly, peoon the open highway in the dead pie race incredibly fast cars
of night.
It’s
a highly danger-
ous and altogether illegal activity, and— in a sentiment clearly shared with some guy at Genki— “One hell of a concept for a videogame!” Like
its
TXR 2
prequel,
game
principles of a fighting
car
mention just how
great Jet Grind Radio's
so here: It’s damn great. Perhaps the most mas-
music
is,
terfully-integrated
videogame
soundtrack we’ve ever heard, JGR's resident DJ Professor K mixes tracks with mucho style, beatmatching transitions and often synching music with the action. Not only does the American version include
all
tunes found
in
version, but
it
of the original
the Japanese also includes
cuts from Jurassic 5, Mixmaster
Mike and Rob Zombie
(including Mr. clearly
one
Zombie was
biggest flaw
is its
trauma-
inducing camera, which jerks and bounces all over the place— and while much of the problem goes away simply by getting used to it, it can occasionally
become
nearly
unbearable. There
is
era, but
tight
There’s also a
down the
be found
to
in
some
to
of
your groove.
marketing decisions, but he hardly spoils an otherwise
tion of the
that
to
mar our
apprecia-
heaping beauty
is Jet Grind Radio. In the end, it doesn’t matter what the camera does or when the slowdown hap-
score was by no
pens: the
easy one. Undoubtedly the
addictive
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game
more than nicotine and is still
competitor then tear off
down
the freeway, avoiding traffic and slithering down off-ramps,
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i
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i
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i
i
is
a
i
bit
poop
a sight to
i
i
i
some downright
guitar wanks. a awful
Crave has done an
US Japanese
excellent job with the e ri release. While the
from fatal bugs to r: ranging slowdown issues, the Ameris
reduced— and
take a
hit
life
life
bar
bars also
with collisions, so
you crash you can lose
monotony— the
it
if
all.
because
was
full
of problems,
can version is vastly improved c ir in terms of overall polish (although there («
is still
some
slowdown with several cars s onscreen at once). So we’ll o it
again:
it
all
ti the premise. to
it, it
this racer is
If
comes down you can dig
darned good.
of
race-win-
upgrade procedure is repeated ad infinitum. tion is first rate.
i
is truly
And a mixed bag of holds some nice ambin music b behold.
v version
But fortunately,
i
wondrous, glorious i
game g
fps, the
meter is gradually diminished. The further ahead the lead car gets, the life
hate-it title, mostly
Gameplay Difficult, addictive,
60
ev
Control 8 Controls very well, but the camera
up
and
rushing by at ri
tance your opponent as the
As was the case with its prequel, TXR 2 is a love-it or
videogame soundtrack
reflections
shifts very realistically, s
s say
date
and
tl the wazoo. The cars’ weight
with the goal being to outdis-
its
i
TXR 2 looks as Graphically, G good as any racer we’ve seen g on PlayStation 2. Cars look o
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Graphics 10
Sound 10
world-beating soundtrack).
little
new
and your CPU
race. Both you
is
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did
headlights to signal a
faster the losing car’s
of slow-
sometimes even knock you out of
levels,
enough
bit
and scam the expressways him with
for a rival, flashing
losing car’s
to
These disturbances, however,
game a perfect means an
miss, evan shamoon
button that controls
can make things frustrating.
of those appeal-to-
Nevertheless, the decision
package.
Do not
your spray painting—which
a-wider-demographic
to grant the
a very
in
Upshot: Absolutely bangin'.
been assigned
it’s
same
best of every world,
an
option for centering the cam-
the
Mountain Dew put together. We call Jet Grind Radio a work of art masquerading as a videogame. We also call it spectacularly fun— it offers the
is
tc perfection. to
bodies poly p
the driving genre (without the kicking and the punching business). Players choose a to
damn
and more
The control of the cars bang on, and each setting— b from engine to brakes to fr paint-job— can be tweaked p
incredibly realistic, with highir
effectively applies the
failed to
of play,
re replay value than your trusty
Ti TivO.
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its
)reamcast execu-
TXR 2 takes
the formula from
the original
game and expands
it,
adding
more cars to choose from (over 100 all told), miles of
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In-Depth Reviews
In
Army Men,
you'll
have
to avoid
being melted by magnifying glasses...”
chris charla
PORTRAITS OF COURAGE When the Army Man franchise began, primitive 3D tools made it easy to create plastic-looking characters. Today, it takes a special 3D rendering effort. The results are worth it: We never saw this kind of emotion on the army men our moms used to bring home from K-Mart.
Shooting a man in the back? Nope: the Tan bastard just spun after we took him
M en:
Army
out with a well-placed shot to the chest.
Sarge’s Heroes Forget The X-Fiies:
a
DO has dissed
rift
Dreamcast since
launched, but the best
company’s Army Men games is finally here—thanks to Midway and developer Saffire. of the
Originally
developed for
is
a third-person tactical
set
in
the Army
little
world,
reduced capacity,
he’ll
have to avoid (you guessed
it)
being melted by magnifying glasses, destroyed by bottle
the Tan
combat
Men
you want
our world, where he’s—
In in this
rockets
Nintendo 64, Sarge’s Heroes
game
if
into
green men, this
rescue her: of course.
appropriately—Army Man-sized.
it
and annihilated by army—and above all,
he has to prevent the Tans big, huge
Control
is
an immense
improvement over the Nintendo
64
version;
it’s
really
a breeze.
The camera rarely swings strangely, and graphics have been
game
where
is
it’s
updated— but unfortunately, they haven’t been improved across the board. The result is a weird effect that’s becoming all too common in Dreamcast ports:
some things
photo-realistic
CHRIS CHARLA
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which can be disconcerting.
Graphics 7
from importing the
Slightly
their
weapons of our world into own in order to wipe out
forget about that.
destroyed-by-bottle-rocket variety
the Greens once and for
itself is
plastic soliders of the
all.
updated looks from N64 version
Ultimately, though, you'll
The game
engrossing, with expertly
Sound 8 The sound
is
the
(the virtuous Greens Tans and their Blue and fight each other to
a tiny death.
In
most
battles,
Sarge and
his adversaries are to scale with
their surroundings, but
Sarge
occasionally passes through a
96
Official
designed levels and a learning
vs.
evil
spies)
Along the way, the dirty Tan
curve that’s absolutely dead-on:
bastards have captured Vicky
you’re always almost good
(and this time, she’s not the
enough
to get
next
Colonel's daughter). Vicky
several tries to get everything
the only person
in
the entire
Army Man world with pink skin, and Sarge has to
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level,
but
it
still
takes
right. Add a great variety of weapons (all of which you’ll
need
to
-
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better than the
N64 version,
this
is.
through the
Captain’s daughter—she’s the is
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good, the music good. Cool.
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and others
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where
and you’ve got a game.
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use pretty frequently,
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difficulty
ramp.
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“In Silent
Scope a sniper ,
This
Is
where
is
good as each shot
only as
the training
fired." FRANCESCA REYES
mode
you’ll practice
shooting fake people before you get to shoot real fake people.
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cloudy sky-are truly
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identical looking character holding something that isn't a weapon. For instance, you'll be presented with a gallery of three similar targets, but only one of is correct the right target is a ugly blond thug packing a sawed-off shotgun, while the wrong targets are ugly blond thugs packing teddy bears.
—
them
Scope
Silent
happiness really a warrrT^w^cont roller?
Is
a
ilent
Scope
is
back
in
clumsy and often
shadowy
of
its
off against the
terrorists that
seem
to
haunt the action gaming world like survival
And once
horror zombies.
rifle
do the talking
the
game up
beside House of
Dead 2 and ask
yourself
games
suffer from
one
fatal flaw: lack of peripheral
A just-for-sniping peripheral was employed in the
support.
arcade version of Silent Scope, but
in
the
DC
incarnation you’ll
use nothing but the
The
result
98
Official
is
d
controller.
something akin
must
reload; there’s
thing as rapid
fire in
land.You can control of your
no such
had
a
you’re willing to put
movement
time
Well, you’re going to
and
them
be using
quite a bit as the L-Trigger
while the R-Trigger releases your
little
this
is
And just like a real your gun will only be able
rifle,
to let off six shots before
Doin' the Silent
you
WE ALL ENGAGE in scoping' sometimes.
enough to ensure good shot under the t § limit of Story Mode. It’s sure— but once
or accurately
sniper-
scope by using either
the D-pad or the analog stick,
where things get a
a certain degree, you’ll have
only as good as
each shot—and neither the analog stick nor the D-pad can be relied upon to move quickly
Scope
real fun. It’s
And
a little bit of 'silent And this is all to
we if
2000
in
Scope.
Btit in
unless
the time,
a rent.
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in
scores
getting top in
SS
Crisp and clear, with a few
Sound 6 Typically
new
menacing
and progressively tougher challenges—or hone your aim in Training Mode, which is more of a rockin’ good time than a
Frustratingly inaccurate
strict tutorial.
Fun and
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the Shooting Gallery-
order to open up
Control 4
Gameplay addictive
if
you get a handle on control
you manage to weather the
rough control scheme, there’s plenty of arcade
to
it
Dreamcast
there to be
promise.
you’re turned off by
the tight time limits
in
the good, because a recent scientific study showed that checking out the bodies of members of the opposite sex (even clothed) was actually good for one's heartrate and stress levels. Thus, the young lady captured here in the act of scoping (and in scaling the lofty heights of mulletude) is simply being heart-smart.
in Silent
you’ve mastered the controls to
found, is
give
frustrating,
some
messy.
A sniper
if
up to snuff. We did: and the answer is Yes— and No. Both
trigger
firepower.
for
really
it’s
little
frustrating.
Remember those
buttons on your controller?
toggles your sight off or on
again, you’ll let your
you. Lovely, right? But now, hold this
House of the Dead 2
without a lightgun: slow, a
DC conversion
once again face
handy
playing
black! In Konami’s
popular arcade sniper, players
goodness
to
be
Score:
6
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Taking a few laps
home
Demolition Racer: No Exit Earth Wind and Fire (and pain) he great thing about arcade racing games
is
do things with their cars that they would normally go
you may be an accountant—or maybe In real life
to
any lengths
even a games reviewer— but give NFL Blitz 2001
siding
create-a-player feature a
example. And
players to extend
unlocking
gameplay by
new tracks, cars and
even an extra mode...which,
that they encourage drivers to
amazingly, supports the DC-
compatible
light
gun!
to avoid: broad-
someone
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at
for
As a value-added, Infogrames
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try
and you can become
Racer:
the hulking middle linebacker that haunts the nightmares of every quarterback.
No
Exit,
has thrown
Demolition
in
wrecks aren’t
bunch of cars becomes a
sary for your advancement
tossed salad of steel
through the game.
time than
No
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however, player
makes the
game
a
single-
bit dull,
regardless of the wealth of
consecutive
reshens up the creaking fran-
bad-boy antics get a if
pile-driver,
old
you're just humiliating the
poor CPU.
and your guests laying down
Solo gamers will get
he smack
enjoyment out of the title—as an action game, more or less-
most importantly, having a af fun while doing it.
The reason
lot
for Blitz’s
appeal as a group activity
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make
a sleeper
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hit.
this racer
pedal? Want to test your airbags? Start this engine. JIM PRESTON
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and you’ve got the perfect stew of skill and recklessness. There are two modes in
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storing.
We recommend this
much
certainly fun.
damage
points, renewing your
Once you get the hang i
a
that repressed angst you’ve
been
for getting extra
Sound 6 The announcer could use a sedative
Control 7
some
them
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Graphics tend to rest on
are shown...unfortunately
some
too quickly.
destroy
less
or—our them after a jump in a dreaded “death from above” for huge points. Throw in available power-ups
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fire,
isn’t
called T-boning,
i
fades
them on
them, set
with a single broadside
since controls are tight and
great way to release
lot
up the wreck-
to rack
into walls, spin
No broken bones
short doses, though,
you
age. You can plow other cars
Graphics 8
thrill is
it’s easy to get the hang and anyone can pull off a uper play once the rudimentary mechanics are understood.
hat
cf,
ways
of
your next soiree. Party on.
in
takes to—well-
favorite— land on
more animations, and lots of lameplay options to keep you talk, delivering
if
not going to
Thankfully, there are a
the pretzels and Lays, so you don’t forget to serve it up at
the
little
points, but
credit, you’re
win many races.
on the end of a fourth
receiving
another punishing blow, and,
your
1
options available. And unless
doh-that’s-gotta-h u rt series
damage
don’t have enough carnage to
that's your friend Phil
jver-the-top, rules-be-damned,
hise with crisper graphics,
your
chaos, but
indeed
ing. Finishing first will
it
toss a salad. There
strategy to be found in the
balance
strike a strategic
Testosterone level? Blitz goes to
demolition derbies, where a
just inevitable-they’re neces-
To beat
FL Blitz 2001
a few standard
in
mode
(divided into Industrial, City
and Country Leagues) enables
December 2000
Score: 7 Official
# Dreamcast Magazine 99
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In-Depth Reviews Yu Suzuki s other labor of love (the first being Shenmue) kicks ass in a whole nother context While joyriders looking for a cheap(er) thrill than actually buying a Ferrari may not like the game’s high difficulty level, some will love every minute of it. Don’t say we didn’t warn you.
Remember that the title of this game is specifically Ferrari F355 Honda Challenge
Challenge, not
or Nissan Challenge or
A
Bunch of Cars Challenge.
F355 Challenge
Ferrari When
game contain a mode
should
of play that a novice
could pick up and grasp in-
max—one
hour, regardless
of the level of “realism" that
whatever portray.
it
is is
Racing
cult to nail.
come
did simulation’
very console
trying to si
ms
are
diffi-
On one hand, a
average player
while going
should result
not the designer’s skewed idea
Instead, the car that
come
shifting in order to
ing’
the Novice
is
And even when
so incredibly
shouldn't be
difficult to play
automatic,
we
players grow weary of
close to winning.
it.
Well,
rumored other hand is where Ferrari F355
enough
designers at
to
and
come
have gotten
so good at driving
Challenge ends up.
(what with
games
of their—ahem—
field research) that their title
Sim Sin #1: In
seems
newbie mode,
this
game
nearly impossible to beat.
100
Official
is
The
like
a cakewalk, but for
us mere mortals,
it’s
too incredibly hard.
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December 2000
even
better.
The
Al
cheats
horrendously, there's no
control
is
sometimes
a player’s car
comes
elastic. in
If
contact
the one that
in
hit
this
a wreck.
was
just
way
Sim Sin #3: Games are supposed
to
be
enjoyable. Yes, simulations are hit (or
you) might
zoom ahead, or your speed might simply be reduced. This may be a port of an arcade game, but they forgot to port the fun. Which leads to...
Enzo was a racecar driver is
Maybe the
AM2
exactly
all
shifting
can’t think
react fast
how to make an experience
160 MPH,
automatic.
a major design/logic
that even seasoned simulation
this
is
of
damage modeling, and the
in
‘learn-
mode, just about everything
(except steering)
flaw.
it
with another car or a wall
recreate an actual experience,
This
never have. On
which that kicks your ass’?
Simulators are supposed to
most
will
'that
Sim Sin #2:
game, and then go into the more competitive levels—and that just ain’t gonna happen here. For one thing, most levels require a mastery of manual
recreate an experience that of us
mean
to start
at the Novice Level, beat the
first.. .but in
simulator should accurately
the other hand,
to
want
will
naturally more difficult than arcade versions of similar
games— but there’s no curve at
all in
F355.
It
learning starts
Hard™ and follows a curve that’s more like an angle bordering on obtuse. A sense of accomoff at Really Freakin’
plishment or
some
sort of
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gratifying reward could justify
finally setttled down and began designing what would be the envy of almost every sports car fan in the world...
crackers.Jt’s that pretty. With
the first Ferrari.
there’s nary a
in
—
then Enzo
this,
game simply some extra tracks.
but the
unlocks
Whoo-hoo. More homework. Graphically, you wouldn’t kick
all
F355 out
of
bed
for eating
eight cars on the track,
slowdown or
of pop-up. Everything
is
hint
nicely
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the
is
that
reality is
rubbing
dirt in
good (except for the glam-rock ’80s background music;
is
handily, while
the face of the
pitiful loser.
Now, we’re not saying that
we turned
tunately, the
AFTER CHEATING like mad and playing for six hours straight, you've finally
done
it!
black car from
You've beat that hell,
and now it's yours
to drive! Rejoice! All those hours of
learning to powerslide ...enduring
those voiceovers...it paid
in
off!
Such was the feeling of victory Namco's Ridge Racer. You have
about the same chance of attaining F355 that you do of
this feeling in
m aking the women's Olympic gymnastics team. As a guy.
off).
announcer
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damage modeling) and backgrounds whiz by with a believable sense of speed. There are options for
it
could be.
fight
is
KEVIN RICE
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and
play,
we
disconnected an awful
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race by themselves
on the same track (competitors are not visible to one
another).
Sound 6 Cars sound good; music can be muted
ghost image (among a field of other ghost images) back at
Control 7 Okay...but a
little
is
run back as a replay.
an interesting kills any sort of
While this
is
approach,
cosmetic and mechanical
collision detection or true
changes are possible—and
human
it
interaction. There’s
in,
play
out—which means that
your control
considerably
is
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hold the jock
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make
time.
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of
catching a pass. The running
Score: 7
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around, you no
longer have to use
many problems
worth anyone’s
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game. Player models are fairly detailed and accurate as to height and weight specifics, and the hideous slowdown from last year is pretty much gone. The pass-
game
contains too to
it
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button
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result
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too—while the dopey catch
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a
between these two while
year’s debacle of a
ing
rubbery at times
the start again, and the whole thing
it,
a major step up from last
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Then your car appears as a detailed (except for the
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have to reconnect to compete again. There’s no way to pick
favorite
it’s
very
they take too long to
kick
ling that is
after the replay players
fact,
Internet multiplayer
is
And when smooth
motion capture sequences do
and
wouldn’t last one round.
mixed blessing. While
stilted.
hampered. The
satisfying as
alma mater of most racing MCs. Tragic.
most
of the animation work
amateurish look—the cardinal
challengers, either. Interesting,
that annoying
lots of cool
that
opportunity, would throw
yes, but certainly not as
“Hi, I'm
is
sand on the 98-pound weak-
himself
game guy who repeats 80 times!” school, which seems to be the
perfectly acceptable. Nice
celebratory sequences.
no way to chat with anyone,
race
from the
Fast times past...
it
given the
if
and presentation
The problem
99 times
out of a hundred, the favorite
does win. ..and
plentiful,
camera work, and
realize,
thing
Sega’s NFL 2K1, the sound
plan.
Options for creating your own
underdog. Watching a plucky, overmatched through to beat the odds-on favorite makes us end
"challenge” onto the the game’s name for a reason. Prepare to be challenged in every sense of the word, even at Novice level. And prepared to have the vitality of your ego challenged when you see where you’ve placed on the ranking screen (above). It’s daunting, but there's a real reward in conquering a game that puts up such a fight. We at ODCM have yet to rank any higher than second to last place— but give us points for effort, okay?
game
Al’s—offensive
the
like to root for
given a nice
making rushing a
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5
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execution the platforming genre has ever seen. This
gaming, and
it
is
has never looked or played better than
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Spawn has no—we repeat— NO analog stick
In-Depth Reviews
support.” greg orlando
the registered Spawn characters show up at the party, but no one remembered to bring the gameplay or a pause menu. Bad guests!
All of
Everyone loves Spawn, but no one loves a bad game. We have yet to see Spawn joined game worthy of his name.
together with a
the
in Whoever spawned
into
the palm. This
gameplay,
comprehensive
review.
everything you need to
about
this
have to to
tell
fill
is It
our tells
you
know
3D
comic anti-hero
world of mind-blowing
it
shows.
stick support. This in itself
in
you the story of how the
and
a long
list.
it’s
from Spawn
is
The game
note that there
no—we repeat— NO analog
is
inexcusable, but
to launch the
a
port,
you’ll
a page, we’re going
poop became—well, poop.
fragfests.
the
Before you even enter into
game. But since we
The translation of Spawn from arcade to DC was supposed into
DC
pawn: in the Demon’s Hand is worth poop in
Demon’s Hand
monster should be sent
this
(both standard
is
only the
first
Game and pause
options
menu
the
simply never
appears. The only way to escape
undead character could have been a perfect anchor for an excellent game— but sadly, he’s been stuffed into a junky thing that’s hard to look at and even harder to
Capcom
play.
put almost no effort
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view
visceral
thrill
of
Clown
is
a
dick Sam),
it’s
when
madly, reduces these rewards
TODD MCFARLANE,
a.k.a.
"Money," turned comics into a fortune. and DC Comics,
you share your pain,
GRAPHICS 5 Pretty, but lots of
dipping and a seasick camera
Spawn
offers a series of multiplayer
Sound 7
modes. Players can team up or engage in free-for-alls, and the
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like
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After starting as a lowly penciler for Marvel
founded his own
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hard to praise the
experience certainly holds
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it
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some magnitude, to help
game and drowned
and down to
detailed
graphics
and the cathartic nature of gameplay cannot be denied. So it’s too bad that the epileptic camera, which skips and hops
play,
in
the plodding step of the private
with a chainsaw as the
fat-bodied, freakish
pause the game during
fairly
decently animated (right
someone
player to return to a previously
when you
a long exercise
characters are
which to smite the opposition. We’ll admit that plowing through
menus are largely unworkable; many screens do not allow a selected menu; and
into
readjustment. Though the
weapons
and sublime) with
Todd McFarlane’s
brutally
directly to Hell..
to soft reset. Ugh.
itself offers
violence a-plenty, plus
all
i
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camera jerks and onscreen madness into a visual nightmare. Capcom should have bagged this
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Jedi
in
Power
Battles
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Why Jar- Jar Binks Should
Die
George Lucas has a penchant for creating gratuitous flop-eared moppets, simply because (we think) their faces will sell well on merchandise. But with Jar-Jar Binks (part comedy relief, part anti-Jamaican slur), he went way too far. Binks spent the entirety of The Phantom Menace uttering such drivel as "Weesa gonna die?" and serving up dim-witted slapstick by sticking his
body parts into various bits of machinery. Even the most brain-dead Star Wars fan has referred to this actionless figure as Jar-Jar Stinks... Mr. Lucas, please oh please put him out of our misery! ridiculously disproportionate
engage
Jedi are often called to
Star Wars Episode One:
Jedi a
in vertical
scrolling shoot-fests.
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not making lightsabers like
original
they used
to. In
the
Star Wars, Jedi darkster
Darth Vader used his lightsaber
Obi-Wan Kenobi. The
to vaporize
Empire Strikes Back saw Vader slicing off his impudent son’s
hand with an errant stroke. Even The Phantom Menace—lamentable farce that
deus ex
it
was—featured a when villain
lightsaber,
levels
and chop away at various
enemies. The emphasis here
is,
of course, on the chopping: to
accommodate
play (or
thing), lightsaber
been dimmed—so now it takes three, four and sometimes five strokes to kill a normal enemy. At once, the elegant and enigmatic Jedi are reduced to bat-wielding thug/heroes
a
la
embarrassment and Queen Amidala.
talking national Jar-Jar Binks,
Mission-based play requires our
some-
wattage has
Double Dragon.
heroes to protect the helpless
(who
resist aid by
Switzerland
enemy fire), engage jumping puzzles (wherein it’s
depth
in
either fore- or back-
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Players can opt to
don the
cloak of any of five different Jedi,
half.
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particular
strengths and weaknesses.
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is
alien Plo Koon, for particularly strong
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but ever-so-slow. Along the way,
Phantom Menace
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follows
assorted Jedi Knights as they plod through ten
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games we’ve
the
all
reviewed
past issues
in
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ISSUE
RATING
ISSUE
'T4 1 f» I AEROWINGS 2
A competent shooter/flight sim that could've used a
Crave
AIRFORCE DELTA Konami
Airbom shooter a
CANNON SPIKE Capcom
bit
more decoratio
little
too rough around the edges to really shine
Fast-paced shooter that’s fun, but ultimately disposable
that arcade w<
in
6
Issue 8:
Nov 00
4WHEEL THUNDER Midway
Tough as
5
Issue 2:
Nov/Dec 99
DREAM ROADSTERS Titus
Bad physics and bland visuals crash
7
Issue 8:
9 DEEP FIGHTER
may be
Immersive shooter that
UbiSoft
DRACONUS: CULT OF THE WYRM
Crave
3D hack
Arcade beat 'em up fun
EXPENDABLE
Simple, straightforward shooter
Infogrames
FIGHTING FORCE 2 Bdos
3D
a verrrmy mediocre
Port of
own ambitious design
one round, and then
for
7 6
boring to some, but excellent to others
'n slash that trips over its
DYNAMITE COP Sega
a
fits its title
it's
little
just repetitive
too well
action game, with repetition galore
GRAND THEFT AUTO
GUNDAM HIDDEN
2 Rockstar
Death, destruction,
SIDE STORY: 0079 Bandai
It’s all
mayhem and
about the anime mechs
cars...a treat for delinquents
3D first
in this
person shooter-fun!
Nov 00
EPISODE
Issue 4:
Mar/Apr 00
FI
Sep/Oct 00
Issue 5:
May/Jun 00
HYDRO THUNDER Midway
Port of a great arcade water racer
Issue 2:
Nov/Dec 99
MAGFORCE RACING
Slick looking racer that doesn’t
Nov/Dec 99
MONACO GRAND
3 5
Issue 4:
Mar/Apr 00
Issue 7:
Sep/Oct 00
Issue 2:
5
Issue 6: Jul/Aug
7
Issue 5:
May/Jun 00
5
Issue 4:
Mar/Apr 00
91 3D
NIGHTMARE CREATURES 2 Konami
Goth-styled
RAINBOW
Oft-delayed strategy shooter
SIX Majesco
SLAVE ZERO Infogrames
SOUL RGHTER Mindscape
COMMANDER
3D weapons-based hack Eidos
Sega
WORMS ARMAGEDDON
emerges sans multiplayer
finally
a
Hasbro
bottom of the DC
'n slash...the
Anime hack
'n
Imaginative
3D romp through childhood. Toys, guns and
Arcade
barrel
slash with pretty intentions but repetitive gameplay
dinosaurs!
beat ’em up with zombies and no real depth
style
00
Issue 6: Jul/Aug
00
Issue 6: Jul/Aug
00
Issue 7:
Moody abandoned
Jaleco
airship survival horror with
and
Beautiful, immersive, incredibly tough Interactive
Difficult,
complex strategy
DC
Raziel ventures to
with
some damaging flaws
romp through mutated Canadian wildemt
Wonderfully atmospheric, short,
ECCO THE DOLPHIN: DOTF Sega OPERATION ESPIONAGE UFO
2 UbiSoft
a
title that’s
unforgiving, for hardcore
too tough for
little
yummy graphics and
tight
Issue 4:
Mar/Apr 00
Issue 3: Jan/Feb
00
Issue 5: May/Jun
00
its
ss
gamer
own good
7
8 6
gameplay
3D
Great looking platTormer with plenty of fun and quirfc..^
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Issue 4:
Mar/Apr 00
Issue 4:
Mar/Apr 00
Issue 2:
Nov/Dec 99
classic
IHE RING: TERROR'S REALM Infogrames
Slow, plodding horror adventure with an interesting plot but no
SHADOWMAN Acclaim
Solid, dark, gothic underworld
SONIC ADVENTURE Sega Crave
3D
Sonic goes
i
romp as comic
anti-hero,
! *1i i
with style
i
and more substance; an
pace
Shadowman
instant classic
a
TOMB RAIDER: THE LAST REVELATION Bdos
Outdated engine does nothing new on Dreamcast; what a shame
TOY STORY 2 Activision
Crappy cameras
make this a
title
not
fit
for children, let
00
Issue 5: May/Jun Issue 8: Nov
00
Issue 8: Nov
00
alone adults
DEAD ORAUVE2Tecmo
Complex, strategic
3D fighting with
the best looking characters around
Strange animg
2D
fighter with nice
touches
DREAM MATCH 1999 SNK
MARVEL VS. CAPCOM Capcom
MK GOLD Midway PLASMA SWORD Capcom
Arcade
2D
Fastpaced
fighter gets the
2D
fighter
some odd
fighter with
no
places
comes out
kicking
and characters
at fans of the genre
Uninspiring fighter-by-numbers in the
A vapid 3D me-too
in
console treatment and
aimed
MK franchise
real
punch but a good lineage
POWER STONE Capcom 2 Capcom
PSYCHIC FORCE 2012 Taito
Brilliant
3D
Gravity-free
more depth than the
four-player fighting with
3D anime fighter with
original
questionable controls
9 10
Issue 6: Jul/Aug
STREET RGHTER
III:
DBL IMPACT Capcom
STREET RGHTER
III:
3RD STRIKE Capcom
TECH ROMANCER Capcom
Good basic Street Fighter stuff, with
or without the online support
Great looking, great playing, but missing the classic characters!
Big
mechs beat one another up
in
anime
fighter with lots of quirks
UFC Crave VIRTUA RGHTER 3TB Sega
00
Issue 5: May/Jun Issue
TANGRAM Activision
Issue 4:
Issue 1: Sep/Oct
7
Issue 7:
Issue 7:
Yu Suzuki's arcade
fighter
comes home with
all
the gameplay intact
Robo-tastic action with no twin stick support-will you miss
BASS RSHING Sega
Best bass fishing ever! Arcade port
ECW Acclaim
The old
JEREMY MCGRATH SUP’CROSS 2000 Acclaim Crap on
it?
Maybe.
is
wondrous
for fans.
WWF engine with some veiy poor graphics make this a dud two-wheels, inconsistent framerate, bad graphics, poor controls.
NBA SHOWTIME Midway
Arcade slam fest for up to four players; fun
NBA2KSega
A few bugs stand
in
for four or
Hyper arcade football action, but no upgrade
Bad gameplay mars a good
even one!
come true
the way of this hoop dream
NFL BUTZ 2000 Midway
NFL QBC 2000 Acclaim
graphics or gameplay
in
franchise with no remorse at
all
One
great hockey
game that suffers
from only minor flaws
READY 2 RUMBLE BOXING Midway
Great presentation of arcade boxing, but not deep enough to satisfy
RIPP1N’ RIDERS Sega
Snowboarding fest that may be shallow, but
STRIKER PRO 2000 Infogrames
An adequate soccer sim
SYDNEY 2000 Bdos
Track 'n' field button masher, Olympics events that could’ve used tweakin
TEE OFF GOLF Acclaim
Super deformed
VIRTUA ATHLETE 2KAgetec
A deeply flawed
VIRTUA STRIKER 2 Sega
DC
with
Official
damn
track
Y
fast!
severe gameplay problems
gameplay
ever!
field title that
port of popular arcade soccer
title
looks great but plays terribly that doesn’t
make
it
out intact
The best tennis game ever! Any questions?
SERIES BASEBALL 2K1 Sega
WWF ROYAL RUMBLE THQ
108
some
it’s
golfers Tee-off to charm, but not to
Hands down the best skater
WWF ATTITUDE Acclaim
UbiSoft
SUZUKI ALSTARE EXTREME RACING
TOKYO XTREME RACER
UbiSoft
Brilliant
make this rally
handling and crisp framerate
Crappy controls and questionable physics dampen
racer the real thing
chances.
its
Great looking street racer with very limited courses-one.
Crave
TRICKSTYLE Acclaim
Smooth, ambitious hoverboard racing
WACKY
Cel
RJ
shading gets wacky
a
falls
practice
little flat in
licensed cart racer with attitude
in this
CENTIPEDE Hasbro
Retro-shooter upgrade to arcade classic not exactly up to par
Issue 3: Jan/Feb
GAUNTLET LEGENDS Midway
A
Issue 6: Jul/Aug
ARMADA
great arcade port that only suffers from repetitive nature
Hybrid shooter/RPG with plenty o’ high points and a big fanbase.
Metro3d
EVOLUTION
2:
Nice looking, but tough
OF PROMISE UbiSoft
FAR
SEVENTH CROSS: EVOLUTION UFO
Interactive
2D RPG
with minimal storyline
Overly simplified
dungeon crawler with
Cute sequel
more
witi!
RPG
Action
TIME STALKERS Sega
Rawed
BUST-A-MOVE 4 Acclaim
Same game, same
hijinks
ensue
00 00
hem's wife gets jacked by
after
with
good
evil
Mar/Apr 00 Mar/Apr 00
Issue 3: Jan/Feb
complex gameplay
simplistic graphics but
RPG
time-traveling
Issue 4:
great, great characters
I8
Wacky breeding sim with
SILVER Infogrames
Issue 4:
empire
intentions but no follow-through
00
k.lsaieO: Jul/Aug 00 Issue 4:
Mar/Apr 00
Issue 7:
Sep/Oct 00
Issue 6: Jul/Aug
00
Mar/Apr 00
99
maniacal, bubble-busting fun. Perfect for two players
CHUCHU ROCKET
Sep/Oct 00
Issue 6: Jul/Aug
1
Issue 8:
10 6 7 6 9
MR. DRILLER Namco
Cute mascot puzzler that should be outlawed for addictive qualities
WETRIX+
It’s
Issue 7: Sep/Oct
00
00
Nov 00
Xatrix
GIGAWINGTommo Issue 5:
May/Jun 00
Issue 4:
Mar/Apr 00
wet,
wacky, and
it's
it
could be fun for two players— but
Issue 5:
it isn't.
May/Jun 00
Nov/Dec 99
Issue 7:
Sep/Oct 00
3
Issue 2:
Nov/Dec 99
5 8
Issue 2:
8 4 8 7 9
00
Issue 5: May/Jun
Nov/Dec 99
00
Issue 7: Sep/Oct Issue 4:
Mar/Apr 00
Issue 2:
Nov/Dec 99
Issue 2:
Nov/Dec 99
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00
ALLOY ARCADE STICK
A must
Cheap DC
CONCEPT 4 WHEEL
8
Issue 7:
Sep/Oct 00
DREAM MASTER CONTROLLER
8 6
Nyko
game
00
Issue 4: Mar/Apr
that’s addictive,
some strange
but not onlin
results!
any fighting game
for
Performance
Fun with
fan.
and pedal combos
robber.
A
quality
DC
7
Issue 8:
Nov 00
Lets you use
Sony Dual Shock
is
and
and other
on your
stuff,
Sep/Oct 00
Issue 7:
Sep/Oct 00
Issue 4:
Issue 5:
Mar/Apr 00
May/Jun 00
Issue 5: May/Jun
good.
-reload; the best lightgun.
controllers,
Issue 7:
Issue 4: Mar/Apr 00
for.
available.
controller that surpasses the original
Solid, precise lightgun with auto-fire
Ultimate
other games, too.
lots of
what you paid
Controller that gives you about
of the better steering wheel
Six-button controller has lots of problems, but the D-pad
Mmmmm...
Catz
Delicous and sturdy lime gree arcade stick,
ENTERTAINMENT MACHINE Nov 00
Issue 3:
Jan/Feb 00
DC
Issue 4:
00
Mar/Apr 00
Issue 4: Mar/Apr
00
Issue 4: Mar/Apr
one
00
Issue 8: Nov
of the best
00
GAMESHARK CDX
Zenith
Interact
MEMORY CARD
INNOVATION 4 MEGABYTE
This TV
is
marketed as a gamer’s
set, but actually,
It’s
got lots of codes, and lets you play import
It's
like four
memoiy cards
in
one! This
is
it's
just
games
too.
a
TV.
Issue 6: Jul/Aug Issue 7:
the one to get for sure.
00
Sep/Oct 00
Issue 7: Sep/Oct
00
00
Issue 3: Jan/Feb
INTERACTIVE BATTLE CHAIR Hunsuker
More butt-rumbling power than you can handla
JUMBO MEMORY PAK X2
Good memory card
Pricey but very cool.
Issue 5:
May/Jun 00
Nov/Dec 99
Issue 4: Mar/Apr
Nyko
with twice the
memory! And has
tight screws!
Issue 4: Mar/Apr
00
00
MAD CATZ EXTENSION CABLE
Actually sit
MAD CATZ WHEEL
The best wheel-and-pedal combo ever
on your sofa while
playing, rather than on the floor.
Issue 6: Jul/Aug 00
Nov/Dec 99
Issue 5: May/Jun
made for a home
console.
Issue 5: May/Jun
00
Issue 4: Mar/Apr
00
00
NEXUS 4MB MEMORY CARD Issue 2:
a
00
Issue 8:
Level Six
800
blocks of
memoiy
can't be bad.
And you can hook
it
to your PC.
Nov/Dec 99 PELICAN 4X
Issue 3: Jan/Feb
6
Issue 6: Jul/Aug
5
Issue 8:
MEMORY CARD
It’s
not too reliable. Tends to lose your data. This
is
bad.
Issue 7:
Sep/Oct 00
00
PERFORMANCE EXTENSION CABLE
Um... see the above note on the
Mad
Catz cable.
Same
deal.
Issue 6: Jul/Aug
00
00
PERFORMANCE MEMORY CARD
At only
POWERUNK
Allows you to connect two
$10
this
card can't be beat But no screen-no minigames.
Issue 4: Mar/Apr
00
Nov 00
5
Issue 5:
9
Issue 6: Jul/Aug
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DREAM BLASTER
One
Interact
THE ENFORCER Topmax
Issue 2:
in
Nov/Dec 99
7
2 6
DREAM PAD Mad
DREAMSTATION
Issue 2:
gameshow aesthetic-boo
Cool looking chrome arcade stick with eight programmable buttons.
Interact
ARCADE FIGHTER STICK AGETEC ASTROPAD Performance
8 6 2
a bad combo
Issue 7:
00
00
for
it,
Nov/Dec 99
1 7
short;
this
Weird, ornery fishman-raising sim...expect
Nov 00
Nyko
Neo Geos together
for multiplayer action.
Issue 5: May/Jun
00
May/Jun 00
QUANTUM FIGHTER PAD
Interact
RALLY WHEEL AGETEC
Nov 00
Issue 5:
May/Jun 00
STARFIRE UGHTBLASTER Issue 6: Jul/Aug Issue 3: Jan/Feb Issue 8:
Nov 00
6
Issue 8:
Nov 00
its
cumbersome shape
blows.
Lacks weight, balance and sturdiness, but has force feedback. Interact
SUPER SONIC CONTROLLER Beamscope
4
Programmable and cool-looking, but
Issue 4: Mar/Apr 00
00
Issue 8:
2
#Dreamcast Magazine December 2000
South Park license abused
GOD Games
Issue 2:
make this an arcade experience, a shamr with limited characters
II
Issue 6: Jul/Aug
Rumble
controls
RAILROAD TYCOON
Issue 8:
Horrible port of a horrible PlayStation wrestling game-run, don’t walk!
tribute to the Royal
CHEFS LUV SHACK Acclaim
SEAMAN Sega
Issue 5: May/Jun
Issue 2:
and too
scroller that’s too hard
SPACE CHANNEL 5 Sega
Issue 5: May/Jun
Issue 6: Jul/Aug
down
Right sim gets loopy with cool play, but tough controls and cc
Crave
7
6
shooter for diehard fans of the arcade genre
Ughtgun shooter sans lightgun hurts
8
No fielding, poor player An arcade-y
Old-school top I
9
2
2D
Old-school
GUNBIRD 2 Capcom
HOUSE OF THE DEAD 2 Sega
00
Issue 3: Jan/Feb Issue 2:
9
NFL2K Sega
VIRTUA TENNIS Sega
SPEED DEVILS
Sep/Oct 00
5
hhihh
NHL2K Sega
SOUTH PARK RALLY Acclaim
TEST DRIVE 6 Infogrames
HHp/Jun 00
2 7
sHTil ri
WORLD
l
purist; all
SEGA RALLY 2 Sega
EVOLUTION UbiSoft
00
00
9
9
SOULCAUBUR Namco STREET FIGHTER ALPHA 3 Capcom
VIRTUAL ON: ORATORIO
some good
zrmm
KUO’S BIZARRE ADVENTURE Capcom/Tommo
POWER STONE
with
FI racing for the FI
SEGA GT Sega
ELEMENTAL GIMMICK GEAR Vatical
Issue 6: Jul/Aug 00
3717717777^^^^ KING O’ FIGHTERS
It’s
!7cM
Issue 4: Mar/Apr
RESIDENT EVIL CODE: VERONICA Capcom
SUPER MAGNETIC NEO
PRIX UbiSoft
PEN PENTRICaON Infogrames RE-VOLT Acclaim
TNN HARDCORE HEAT ASC Games
8
5 RAYMAN
Racer that uses the force for good and doesn't end up sucking
CART Racing done
00
Issue 3: Jan/Feb
Issue 6: Jul/Aug
6 7
honor adventure tripped up by voice acting and cameras
Survival
D2Sega
1-SPY:
could-be racer prematurely
Sega
Crave
TEST DRIVE V-RALLY 2 Infogrames
armirmmmmm BLUE STINGER Activision CARRIER
RACER Lucas Aits
FlAG TO FLAG Sega
Sep/Oct 00
7
5 7 6
terrain
worm-on-worm action
Multiplayer franchise goes ballistic with
ZOMBIE REVENGE Sega
6 2
multiplayer shooter gone wrong
Tank shooter with bland graphics, but some intense
WILD METAL RockStar Games
6 6
and a deranged hero
gorefest with violent giouls
Great concept, horrible execution;
SWORD OFTHE BERZERK
I:
WORLD GRAND PRIX
this
SF RUSH 2049 Midway
and on the ground...yawn
Repetitive alien blast-fest in the air
Interplay
Issue 6: Jul/Aug
TOY
00
& DANGEROUS Talonsoft
INCOMING
road type racer with Hydro Thunder sensibilities
Issue 7:
5
FUR FIGHTERS Acclaim
nails off
Excellent lightgun but not quite as
This thing
is
good as the Mad Catz.
complete crap. Don't buy
Issue 4: Mar/Apr 00 Issue 4: Mar/Apr Issue 6: Jul/Aug
this thing.
00
00
00
THRUSTMASTER RACING WHEEL
You could do worse. Crappy pedals and weirdly-placed buttons.
Issue 5: May/Jun
00
THUNDER PAK Nyko
This rumble pack accessory works, and that's
Issue 5: May/Jun
00
00 INNOVATION 4 MEGABYTE
MEMORY CARD
like the Pelican card, but
works a
all it
lot better. This is
has to do. the one to get
Issue 7:
Sep/Oct 00
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by Sega In the 21st Century, the Inter-City Government has set forth a plan to keep kids from expressing themselves in any way, shape or form. There's two things that keeps the spirit of the kids alive in the late 21st
Century: Overdrive Magnetic-motor Skating Shoes and a radio program called let Grind Radio.
NFL 2KI
by Sega You don't have to wait for Sunday's ballgame. NFL 2K1 is loaded with new features-and you can up the stakes by playing pros around the country online through your Dreamcast.
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LIFE
Half Life
by Havas
When
an experiment with a
dimensional portal goes haywire, your co-workers start disappearing. Your mission, in this visually appealing first-person shooter, is to penetrate the '^1 heart of this tantalizing
mystery. I
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Shenmue by Sega The
chapter of Yu Suzuki's epic saga is at hand. an adventure game that transports you to Japan, circa 1986. You are Ryo, a young man trying to solve the mystery of his father's death. Along the way, you'll be treated to the most richly-detailed game world ever conceived. first
Shenmue
is
Babbages software (0
Ready 2 Rumble 2
by Midway Ever since Mike Tyson's Punch Out, gamers have clamored for a rad boxing game, and their pleas have been answered with Ready 2 Rumble Boxing. Each of the characters in this colorful game contains personality and wit to match their physical prowess.
Sonic Shuffle
by Sega
.
Evei 's favorite amphetamine-addled hedgehog has returned in his very own Mario Party-style digital board game. Sonic Shuffle -ar promises to w* feature a slew yji qf minigames, each with dif*
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by LucasArts With Star Wars Demolition, LucasArts and Activision take Star
Wars
new and dynamic game This game is going to be an
into a
genre. absolute blast for players who'll battle with Star Wars vehicles and characters in ways they've never done before.
Unreal Tournament
by GT Interactive The first tournament 3D shooter of its time, Unreal Tournament includes over 30 unique levels waterfronts,
speeding
-
oil rigs,
trains,
floating castles, pirate ships
and
much more.
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the world’s large# Selection
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by Sega Sega's little furry mascot returns with blazing speed in Sonic Adventure for the Dreamcast. Players can guide Sonic though 8 different
sou icp
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vast levels filled
with secrets, bumpers, rings and an army of enemies.
House of the Dead 2
by Sega The sequel to the popular of the Dead, this game looks to take the 3D shooting genre by storm. House of the Dead 2 will offer gamers bigger
House
environments and
more imaginative shooting areas.
Crazy Taxi
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by Sega
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Crazy Taxi, the smash hit comes to the Sega Dreamcast. In this wild race against the clock, players role of one of four off-
assume the Dreamo
beat cab drivers
in
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tennis
a wuss
ever made!
All
in
the best
you have to do
Training Mode Bonuses The unlockable secrets in Virtua Tennis are found only
the (often frustrating)
in
^ + © + © when serving from the near court and press # + © + ©
Training Modes. There are no actual codes
when
but by beating level three
is
press
serving from the far court to
perform an underhand serve. To get it to all three buttons have to be pressed
work,
at exactly the
same time—so use the D-pad
rather than the analog stick to try the serve.
If it
doesn’t work, keep trying.
to unlock the hidden outfits in the in
game,
the various
Training exercises— under specific
conditions—they can be yours. Outfits include crazy duds like Hawaiian shirts and sunflower or tambourine rackets...and there’s a camouflage outfit, a zebra outfit
and even a
fire outfit.
RETURN ACE OUTFIT NO. Beat
level
three
in
two
WALL OUTFIT
BIG Beat
level
If you’re trying to beat Arcade Mode to earn the title of Master—the best player in the game—you can’t lose a single set. To make it easier, try pressing START on controller two every time it looks like you’re going to lose the set. Then, just beat player two easily and start again from the last level played, until you beat it and eventually finish the Arcade Mode.
21
balls.
NO. 22
three with five seconds
remaining.
BULL'S EYE OUTFIT NO. 23 Beat you want the ball to go over the net hit an underhanded serve, just tap the buttons briefly instead of holding them down. If
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level
three with 7,000 points.
CANNON BALL OUTFIT Beat
level
NO. 24
three with ten seconds
remaining.
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SMASH BOX OUTFIT
NO. 25
three with ten seconds
Hidden Characters
Beat
Unlocking the two hidden characters of
remaining.
King and Master can be a very trying you’ll have to beat many
DRUM SHOOTER OUTFIT
experience, as different
modes
game—
of this tough
Beat
level
level
NO. 26
three with ten seconds
especially later on.
remaining.
KING
PIN
CRASHER OUTFIT NO. 27
Beat
level
Beat the entire World
Circuit
Mode.
three with a strike
in
We’ll be the first to admit that the challenges you have to beat to earn the hidden outfits are just about impossible— but if you’ve got a lot of
time on your hands, gobs of luck and a high tolerance for frustration, then give ’em a try.
every
frame.
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Mode on Normal
difficulty
GIANT BALL OUTFIT NO. 28 Beat
without losing a set.
level
three with ten seconds
remaining.
999
Skill Points
fighter. First, all
Career
Just imagine the fun you could have creating your
own custom
fighter
if
you had
999 skill points to work with! Well, you can stop dreaming: because we’ve got the code that wil give you just that. With points, you
999
skill
can create a veritable super
select
you have to do
is
enter the
Mode from the Main Menu and Make New Fighter. After you select
the fighting type,
outfit
and voice
want your fighter to have,
style
you
just highlight
select Settings. Now, enter the word
“Best” as the
first
name— being sure to
and
Then enter “Buy" name, again
capitalize the first letter.
as the
fighter’s last
capitalizing the first letter.
done and
When
you’re
you’re back on the Settings
now have 999 make yourself
screen, you’ll notice that you skill
a
points.
totally
Now, go to
jacked-up
it:
fighter.
FEED YOUR CHEATIN’ JONES Virtua Tennis
Ultimate Fighting
Championship Hidden
&
Dangerous
WWF Royal
Rumble
Bust a Move 2
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3rd Strike
Ecco the Dolphin
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Bust A Move games,
Type Your Way To Victory! The odd thing about using the Hidden And Dangerous codes is that you will need a Dreamcast Keyboard to enter
Bust A Move 4 has
them.
some
searching one out though, especially
Bubble Busting Codes Just
like all
the past
secrets to unlock
if
you spent your hard-earned money on
entered at the
this difficult
title
game and
screen. As you enter
want
codes you
nerves to bloody nubs.
will
let
that you did
hear a
you know it
to finish
cheats, you
right.
it
you actually
without wearing your
must
enter the “Cheat
first
it.
will
not
To enter the Cheat
Mode code, enter the words IWILLCHEAT with your normal Dreamcast controller when prompted
the cheat, choose
at the beginning of the
then
Bonus Characters
omm
*,
in
a
level.
100% Health Enter while the
game
is
paused using
the keyboard to restore your
own and
to play.
during the
* Q # O #
when you auto-setup your team
is
«
».
©
*©
#,
»m
«
+ at the title screen. If you entered the code correctly, you will hear a The bonus characters you
sound. Enter the Options screen to access the new selection.
the Character Select scret
the Big Head Mode, which
game first
is
is
not entered
paused. Enter this one
part of the
game when
you auto-setup your team and after you’ve selected you team. You
should also note that
cheat can sometimes your game.
entered via the Dreamcast keyboard part of the
first
game—either or after
you’ve selected your team. You should also be aware that you text
will not see any on the screen while you’re typing in
the cheats.
Demo
Enable the “Bonus Characters” and "Tarot Reading” codes. Then, press ©,
*,
is
the only cheat that
during the
crash
Tarot Reading
Talk
is
while the
this
exception
Mode
Big Head This
see when you pause by pressing START. The you’ll
Unlock four additional characters to use; find them on the Character Select screen.
Unlocks a Tarot Reading mode in the Options menu. This is normally unlocked by beating the Story Mode.
FUNNYHEAD
keyboard. Most cheats are entered on
the pause screen
,
game. For the
you must use the
rest of the codes,
Arcade—and when you start, you’ll have new backgrounds select
and all-new puzzles
bad guys
GOODHEALTH
your teammate’s health.
Mode” code; the other cheats work without
©
After you enter
Mode and
of the different
Before you can enter any of the
Another World ©, m + m
Puzzle
Re-enter to switch between frontal views
worth the trouble of
It’s
using codes that are
noise to
twin
[tfi
ENEMYF See Where The Enemies Are
Apparently these particular
words were
not to Mr. Soldier
Man’s
liking.
So he
shot them.
SHOWTHEEND View The Ending As soon as you type “D” the paused
game this
start to load the ending. Using
will
code
will
also
end your game so be
sure to save before you try
it.
ALLLOOT All items Enter while the
game
is
paused
using the keyboard to give yourself all
Unlock A Couple Characters serious codes for this game have yet appeared, but in case you were wondering ow to unlock the game’s hidden characters, we've got the No
goods. Essentially, you’re going to have to beat the game's different
modes on any difficulty
level to
unlock stuff.
how you McMahons: Here’s
the items
in
the game.
Before any of the codes will work, you must first enter in a master code of sorts into the name entry
KILLTHEMALL Instant
Enemy Kill
Enter while the
game
is
paused using
the keyboard to be able to
enemies
kill all
screen at the beginning of the game using a standard
Dreamcast
controller.
instantly.
get the
0
CANTDIE Invincibility
Beat Exhibition Shane McMahon Beat Royal
Rumble Mode
Mode
Enter while the
game
the keyboard and you to
be
is
paused using
will
Game paused
Resume
never be able
Map
killed.
Objectives Restart
ENEMYB
Game
See What The Enemy Sees
options
Quit
Puts a camera behind that various
baddies
in
a
level to
see what they can
see. Re-enter the cheat to switch
between
own
different baddies
characters.
and your
MI
IH0
if
i
It
Once the Cheat Mode code is entered, start a game and then Using a DC keyboard, type in the cheat you wish to use. The letters you type will not appear on the screen, so don’t screw up!
pause
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— Cheat Codes
eE033s3HI!IH Additional Costume Colors
Scary Codes We’ve got a couple of decent Nightmare Creatures codes for you this month, detailed below. You should also be aware that just as in many other Dreamcast games, you can press
Those of you who already own SF3: 3rd Strike will have already completed the game at least once using one of the game’s characters—which is all you need to do to unlock additional colors for each character’s outfit.
Cheajfj
Kill
0 O while the game
®
+
paused to get a clean pause screen. Also as in other games, you can put your Nightmare Creatures game disk into a PC and check out all kinds
Enwiw
'.'Off
Previous
If
Menu
Hidden Cheats Menu
to the
game.
If
Full Health
the simple
O
until
is
press and hold
your health bar
all
you
0+0+
is full
don’t even have to
character and press and hold
the
START
select
them
button while you with an action
button to get an alternate
costume
color.
producer
in
turn his outfit this shade of pink.
a very helpful cheat that
Cheat Menu
screen letting you turn on
invincibility
get into the Menu, pause the game and + LS^ ancl then press press and hold
again.
+DO
4J
*0 © * © © © ©
The Cheat Menu will automatically appear if you’ve entered the cheat correctly. Just highlight an option and or press to turn it on and off.
three buttons on your controller and will
then check this one
game once using any character in the game, just press the START button while you select a character the next time you play, and his outfit will be colored differently. Ryu must have washed his nice white gi with his red bandanna to After you beat the
along with an Enemy Kill feature that lets you kill baddies with just one hit. To
That’s right-just press and hold the top
your health bar
Health cheat wasn’t
gives you access to a
so easy
health while playing the game,
Full
for you,
out. Here’s is
barely classifiable as a
code. Whenever you are getting low on
have to do
and set the one. Once you beat
rounds to
This extremely useful cheat it’s
game
things easy on
the game, just highlight any
Enter the Cheat Menu code while the game is paused. It’s your first step to totally conquering this game.
enough
to figure out,
make
yourself and set the difficulty to the easiest level
of cool stuff— like developer Kalisto’s
movie introduction
you haven’t beaten the
yet,
is
up again. You pause the game! fill
^
Dolphin Soccer This
worth
an
one hidden secret that
is
take a
lot it.
soccer
going to
is
of effort, but the result is well
Inside
game
Ecco the Dolphin
is
called the Dolphin’s
a fun
World
Championship, which pits you against one of the warring cian members. The point is to push the large soccer ball into the hole
in
your opponent’s area using
your bottlenose. There
is
a time
limit,
air
the center of the
room. Turn and face the entrance and see an oval section of wall to the
you’ll
moving a bit with the current. Swim through it and you’ll find a secret room— inside is a Stealth power-up. Grab it and head straight back, and you’ll find a pair of yellow lights at the back of the room. Touch your nose to the right one left that’s
and
you’ll
enter the soccer room.
and the biggest score earned before the time is up will win the game. To unlock the soccer
you must
first
game and play Powers of
it,
get to the
Levitation level. Once there, swim to the large central building underwater and search around it until you find the
the Cheat Mode screen will appear and cheating can taken to a whole
Information Shard. From there, enter the central structure and cruise down the tunnel until you find an oval door
’nother level!
near the bottom. Head through the passage which is split up by doors that dilate when you get near them so that
Clean Replay Screen
you can pass through them. Ignore the side paths and just head down
To check out your replay of your last
the tunnel to the chamber at the
mission without the text that says
end. Inside
“replay” at the bottom of the screen, just
member and
press and hold the the
same
deal, but
time. No, if
replay
a Clan
it’s
mode,
this is
You can also press
in
the
the only way to do
addictive. it.
0 + 0 while the
paused to get a clean pause screen. ..an undocumented feature possessed by most Dreamcast games. is
Just press to
0 + 0 during your replay
remove the text from the bottom
of the screen.
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the dolphin soccer field the goals are holes in the ground and the walls are banked to help keep the action moving. In
At first this soccer game can be frustrating, but once you get the hang of it, the Dolphin's World Championship is
not that big of a
you want a pure and un-
obstructed view of your exploits
game
is
0 and Q buttons at
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