Sega Mega CD Reviews - A look back

[Rogue Trooper]

Memory card i'm putting with next parcel will have a lot of MCD reviews on, so you should have some new material soon.

:-)

[Rogue Trooper]

Sort of 'following on' from points brought up recently in the Jaguar reviews/look back thread, talking of mixed messages coming from UK press and 'flawed review logic:

Mean Machines Sega slamned into likes of:Powermonger, Prince Of Persia, Afterburner III, Wolfchild, Ninja warriors, Night Strikers etc etc for basically not using the capabilities of the hardware, be it the sprite based stuff or storage of CD or not being the sort of game they expect to find on MCD due to age etc, all fine and dandy points, yet they loved Slipheed whilst admiting it really was Galaxians using pre-rendered visuals streamed off CD and Ecco on CD scored a whopping 96% and they admit it only really offered up Qsound, 5 extra levels and some FMV over the cart version.so just what they wanted from MCD games often seemed 'cloudy'.

Edge meanwhile, who in mission statement were not going to be swayed by fancy visuals, dressing up old gameplay, they wanted innovation damnit....

MCD reviews of Ecco 8/10.reviewer makes clear it DOES'NT use the MCD potential, by just having, you guessed it, 5 extra levels, Qsound etc.

But slipheed whilst scoring lower, 7/10, oh review is a dozy alright.starts off by admiting it does'nt live up to the hype, then goes onto describe how gameplay is 'inspired' by Galaga', bosses review says are pathetic.

Turn few pages, bizarely a feature on it again, Import review type thing, lot of screens+text, no score, but
text goes onto detail how game was originally out on NEC PC-88SR 8 years previousily! and all designers have done is take the 8 year old gameplay, merge it with pre-rendered polygons streamed off CD, sprites laid on top, then there's details on a 'rather weedy looking boss', great, ties in with what reviewer said and then we get:

'..No stage 12, just a boss..a big, dirty, mean boss'.


Erm, but you've twice now described how poor the bosses are, so which is it?.

[Rogue Trooper]

Quick bump:

MEGA review of Batman Returns 81% 'A strange breed of game.The platform bits are rubbish, but the driving game is the best i've ever played'  (Paul Mellerick)



 Dune 8/10 from EDGE

[TL]

Some more for you!

[onthinice]

Nice scans! I like the miss ok hit review idea.

[TL]

Keio Flying Squadron review from Mega Tech:

[onthinice]

I have always heard Keio was good game. Some nice scores.

[TL]

Another lot from the same mag: