3DOKid wrote:I personally think Total Eclipse is brilliant. And it still very playable. I actually completed it recently too, and while it is showing it's age a little, I still think it's better than a lot of shooters out there today. Considering it was the U.K. release title. It's like Crash N' Burn. Both release titles (in different territories) but pretty good games, all considered.
As for Soccer Kid, you're on your own. It looks, feels, smells and is, a pretty average Amiga game for ever trapped in 1989. Meh.
Well i'm not really on my own in either respect, most of the reviewers from the magazines of the time said that soccer kid was a good game (as well as IGN for their GBA review) and most of them said Total Eclipse was terrible.
Total Eclipse is bland and repetitive, there's no two ways about it, the textures and level designs are completely un-inspired and are constantly recycled and the music is also absolutely horrible, it's actually inferior to the earlier Star Wing/Star fox is every single respect but graphics
Now we're both from the UK so I think we can say that the problem with Soccer Kid is that it's a bit too "english" it's quaint right? and the graphics are obviously of an Amiga standard so they're well below what the 3DO could do, but it is a good game which is the important thing.
where it comes to Blade Force I have no idea what the critics
or 3DO fans see in it at all, to me it is just like an ultra boring tech demo, I actually hate that game, I'd forgotten how much I hated it until I got it down out of the loft to take screenshots of it and after 20 minutes of playing I just felt like I wanted it to end.
Powers Kingdom I spent a lot of time playing in my youth, so I'm not sure if nostalgia is clouding my judgement, not only that but I don't particularly like any Tactical RPG at all including Vandal Hearts and FF Tactics which most critics absolutely gush about, so I don't know what to make of it.