From: oliveira@nic.near.net (John Oliveira)
Newsgroups: rec.games.video
Subject: SNES & Genesis games Impressions
Date: 28 Dec 1992 15:55:17 GMT
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I hope everyone had a nice Holiday and that Santa was able to surprise you all.:-)
During the Holiday we got the change to rent some games for both the SNES and
the Genesis.
Below is just the impression we got from the following games.

SNES games:

Spiderman and XMEN:
 
 The object of the game is to save one of the  Xmen from Arcadia.
YOu first start with Spiderman in the first level to retrive what it look like
time bombs. Once you do that than you have the option to choose one of the XMEN.
Each XMEN has two levels to complete including Spiderman, he also has 2 levels to
complete.
Wolferine has levels with  bunch of clowns.
Storm is underwater, Cyclops is under a cave and Bambit I can't remember which 
level he has.
This game didn't attract us that much, the gameplay just wasn't there. I hated
when you loose all your men you have to go to the beginning, theres no continues
or level select. THe graphics weren't that great and the characters were to small.
I would recommend renting this game before purchasing.

Chuck Rock:

 Chuck Rock is a caveman who has to rescue his wife that has been kidnapped.
The graphics and the background were really nice, I though it was even better
than the Genesis version.
The only drawback of this game was that Chuck Rock doesn't have the option to
use a weapon to strike at the enemies. His only weapon is his stomach and a jump
kick. There times that I wish he had a weapon since I found certain levels to be
frustrated, but overall this game was reall fun. I forgot to mention that he can
pick up rocks and use that as a weapon but that wasn't enough for me..:-)
Overall this game was fun, I would recommend to rent it first.

Dead Valley Ralley:

 This was by far the best game that we had rented. We had so much fun with this
game.
The object of the game is for Road Runner to get all these flags. They range from
yellow, green, red and I think purple. I guess different colors of the flags means
higher points.
Sunsoft did an excellent job on this game, the graphics and backgrounds were top
notch. It was just like watching a cartoon, there were many times we were laughing
at the humor they put into the game, specially when Willie E. Coyote was chasing
the road runner and he falls from the cliff, he looks at you and his body falls
while his neck streches than boom he falls down. And on the hot air ballon when
Road Runners steps on it the ballon breaks and it flows through the screen and
you see Coyotes neck streches with the flow than boom, you see him fall its the
ground and the smoke comes up, it was just hillarious.
We though this game was more fun than Sonic2 and the Road Runner was as fast as
Sonic if not faster.
The only part that was a little frustrating to get use to was how to control 
Road Runner, he semmed to be to sensitive to the control but once you get the
hang of it than he will be easy to control.
I would highly recommend this game. 

GENESIS games.

TMNT Hypezone:

 I already own the SNES version and I wanted to check to see if the game play
on the Genesis version was different, but I guess wrong.
I though it was almost indentical to the SNES version, I though the SNES version
was a little better. I miss the fact than when the Turtles was able to throw the
foot soldier at the screen. While playing the game I was expecting that I could 
do that but I kept forgetting that I was playing the Genesis version.
Its a great game and also way to easy just like the SNES but I guess I prefer the
SNES version.
I would reccomend to rent this game.

Ecco the Dolphin:

The object of this game is your a dolphin in search for his family.
The graphics and background were really nice but this game just didn't attract us
at all.
We played for about an hour and there were times that I just wanted to put the
game away but we wanted to give it a change to see if the game would get better
but it was just plain boring.
Some people will like this game but we though it was just plain boring and not
that great.
Maybe it wasn't my style of a game, I would reccomend to rent this game first.

Street of Rage 2:

This was the second game that we had fun with, this version was way better than
SOR1. The characters were much bigger and improved and graphics were really nice.
I like the option of one on one not as good as SF2 but not bad.
We managed to finish the game in normal but will try harder next time.
During the game we experience some serious flickers bad enough that it would make
the character dissapear, specially when you have about 6 to 8 characters on
screen.
It affected the gameplay some of the time, we also saw a little Slowdown in which
it was a surprised to us.
Overall Sega did a good job on this game, I would highly reccomend this game.

John