From: pol-in01@oswego.Oswego.edu
Newsgroups: rec.games.video
Subject: Rival Turf (SNES)
Keywords: Smash Kill Maim Destroy.
Date: 3 Apr 92 18:36:16 GMT
Reply-To: pol-in01@oswego.Oswego.edu ()
Organization: Instructional Computing Center, SUNY at Oswego, Oswego, NY
Originator: pol-in01@gidney.oswego.edu

Just got a good game for rent last night!
Here is what I thought of it:

Well here is a partial review of the new game Rival Turf! for the SNES. Well
to start Rival Turf is brought to us from the company that gave us the SNES
game Earth Defence Force. JALECO has made an interesting little chop socky game
with quite a bit violence and quite a bit of similarity to Final Fight. This
game seems to answer a great many of the problems of the Final Fight game by
introducing a really great two player simultanieous option. What's more is the
addition of a pretty entertaining two player versus mode.

The basic jist of the game is you Jack Flack (obviously modeled on the Final
Fight character Guy) and your police authority figure wrestlin' freind 
Oozie Nelson (a combination of Hammer from Final Fight, Elton John, John
Travolta, Stevey Wonder and that Bison guy from SFII) must battle wierd folk
who are weird minions of the mysterious BIG AL!.

The action takes place in front of really beatiful and vivid 3d scolling back-
grounds, the only problems about these backgrounds is the that the are lacking
parallax scrolling. Only 2 layers scroll: the foreground and the background, no
midground. But the background graphics on the versus mode is truely breath-
taking. The book says it is a rotating Mt.Fuji erruption scene but I beleive it
looks more like a rotating spiral galaxy.

The game play is pretty rich for a game of this type, there are more moves
than in Final Fight and there seems to be a wider variety of things to kill.
There is also interesting differeneces in the types of enemies you kill. They
aren't the typical punks you would find in Final Fight they have a much more
cartoony feel, which some may dislike but I personally find interesting.

The sound leaves a little to be desired though. As repetitive and flat as EDF
was likewise is the music of Rival Turf. But there is a good inplemenation of
stereo seperation on this game though, too bad there is no way to eleminate
the music and keep the sound. Too few games implement this feature, simply
unexcusable on game of this length and with music so repiticious. 

Overall I would rate this game highly rentable and for 50$ a decent addition to
any chop socky lovers game library. Great graphics, Decent game play, High
interest factor, and Average Music and Sound, Very Flexible option menu makes
the game difficulty easy to change and the settings acually have some meaning
in comparison to other games. Where its addition serves only the function of a
irritating jukebox. 

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