Amazon.com On a storm-swept ship, the sequel begins...
You are the Queen of Halassar. Thousands have fought and died for you. Millions adore you as the goddess Laharah reborn. Your fate is written in the Book of the Prophets. You are the savior of all creation. But your enemies are strong. The King of Galdyr wants you dead. Sinister factions plot your downfall. The armies of Urath march on your borders. You are forced to talk only in short sentences. Below Munari City, the mysterious Unseen weave a dark conspiracy. Thus begins the tale...
You will battle your enemies in real time, with an all-new, party-driven combat system, and explore over 30 exotic and imaginative 3-D locales, from the tropical isle of Teomura to the bizarre and dreamlike City of Masks. Fulfill Maia's prophecy through an immersive, character-driven story, rule the Kingdom of Halassar, and interact with hundreds of nonplaying characters.
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Destined To Be Lost In The Shuffle Would be a pretty fine game, if not for the fact that in the last year I beat Lord Of The Rings: The Third Age and Champions Of Norrath. S2 is okay, but I would start elsewhere for your RPG needs.
The set-up is your basic hack-and-slash game. Run around, pound pound pound on enemies and find items that help advance your quests. Gameplay allows you to equip characters without too much hassle and switch among characters (a necessity!) with ease.
My big hangup with gameplay were the summons. Due to the way spell points are set up, you can only summon once in a great while. But the creatures you summon aren't noticably better than just using the main characters, and they take FOREVER to conjure. Several times, I saw enemies ahead and cast my summon, only to have them dispatched by my other characters by the time the summon worked. For a game called "Summoner", this is unforgiveable.
Graphics are average, but so what? Gameplay should be the reason you choose games, not pretty pictures (with a few exceptions). If you are a fan of the hack-and-slash and haven't tried this game, I'd have to recommend either Balder's Gate title or Champions of Norrath first.
From the ManufacturerThe series famous for relentless intensity is returning bigger, better looking, and more frantic than ever before. Sam Stone is back to rescue the universe one bullet at a time against overwhelming hordes of time traveling enemies in Serious Sam 2. Built from the ground up with a completely new engine, Serious Sam 2 will be a shot of adrenaline to the hearts of first-person shooter fans across the world. This is serious!Features:Runs on the newly designed Serious 2 engine with graphics, environments, and physics that are 100 times more complex than previous Serious Sam games.Maintains the same level of extreme action that Serious Sam is known for. Despite its jaw-dropping visuals, Serious Sam 2 will surpass the onscreen enemy benchmark that the original Serious Sam games set.Over 40 beautiful, expansive levels spread out over seven unique environments. Sam will travel through thick jungles, murky swamps, frozen tundra, futuristic cities, volcanic planets, and more. Each level is seriously enormous!45 newly designed enemy types for Sam to face. The Serious Sam series is known for its outrageous enemy personalities, and Serious Sam 2 will give players a lot more to laugh about.New vehicular and animal-back combat! Engage in heart-thumping action atop wild, mountable animals, and intense, death-dealing vehicles.Serious Sam 2 has the wild shooter fun that made the first game so popular - with all-new game elements, weapons and monsters to shoot up. You're back as Sam Stone, the giant hulk of a man who hates aliens -- which is good,because they're invading and Earth needs a bloodthirsty maniac like him to take them on!
Editorial ReviewWhen it comes to digitalhoop action, there's no doubt that NBA 2K sports the most luscious visuals ever seen in a basketball game. It's not the best-playing basketball game out there, as it does commit some serious fouls with its questionable artificial intelligence. But like NFL 2K before it, this is yet another sports game that Dreamcast owners will want to show off to friends.
The clean graphics show some extremely well-detailed players, stadiums, fans, and even coaches. While the player animations aren't quite smooth as glass (there are quite a few speed-ups and slowdowns), the players do move in a fairly realistic manner. When you see the instant replay of your favorite power forward delivering a massive dunk, you'll cheer. To complement the visuals, Sega has added play-by-play and color commentary to document the on-screen action. While this does get a little repetitive, this feature ultimately adds to the atmosphere of realism.
NBA 2K shows some trouble with controls. This is most apparent in handling loose balls. You'll cringe as you occasionally watch long passes sail out of the court, resulting in mindless turnovers. This is especially painful to watch when the Dreamcast can't complete passes to computer-controlled players. These stupid turnovers can, will, and do affect a game's final score--and have even caused a few games to be restarted in disgust. On the positive side, NBA 2K contains a new finesse-based method of hitting foul shots that requires that you squeeze the control triggers in near perfect synch.
The create-a-player and coaching options make it relatively easy to lead your team from postseason TV watchers to championship ring owners.
While the 2000 season's prettiest basketball game offers more than just the most delicious eye candy, there is still a lingering feeling that NBA 2K could've been much better with a little more fine-tuning. At the very least, while NBA 2K is recommended, it is anticipated that the successor NBA 2K1 will offer even more backboard-breaking fun. --Mark Brooks
Pros:
Spectacular graphics that show plenty of detail
Play-by-play and color commentary add to the fun
Easy to play, but different from most console roundball games
Foul shots are a highlight
Cons:
Graphics suffer from occasional slowdown for no apparent reason
Controls could be stronger
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AWESOME NBA GAME OF 99! this is an awesome game of the 99! well its ABOUT TIME a system made a game for ALLEN IVERSON! who is FAR MORE better than KOBE BRYANT and with the stats to prove it! its just that Allen Iverson doesnt have a perfect team like kobe, as EVERYONE of kobe's team mates are better than the average nba player.
Anyways, this game has alley oops, great graphics [graphics are especially good in NBA games cuz it just looks weird when the graphics are bad in nba games, and also if you watch the sport on tv, you can tell who's who and find the better person faster without using direct pass!:) ] The rosters are accuarate, no FAKE rosters such as "roster 14" like the NBA LIVES series. all players are ACTUAL PLAYERS!
here are a FEW things you can do in NBA 2K
alley oops direct pass cross over create own player create own team
and also when u create a player you cant have him PERFECT, which i think is actually a GOOD thing so the game wont be too easy. and when you make your own team, the names are set for you allowing the announcer to say the name, which makes it less confusing [i was confused when me and my friend played NBA LIVE 98 on computer and both made custom teams]
hopefully a system will make a WNBA game soon though, cuz TINA THOMPSON is hott! :)
Amazon.com ReviewAlthough it's somewhat rough around the edges, Oni is an innovative third-person action-adventure title that won't disappoint hard-core gamers. Set in the cyberpunk future of 2032, the Japanese anime-influenced Oni casts players as Konoko, a spunky government agent on a mission to bust up a criminal organization known as the Syndicate.
While the game's free-roaming 3-D environments may not be much to look at--they're understated to the point of seeming bland or unfinished--Oni's real beauty is in its mix of hand-to-hand and weapons-based combat. The game's characters have their own distinct fighting moves and can disarm their opponents, making the arsenal of available weapons fair game. Admittedly, the controls (which utilize everything but the L3 button) are quite a handful and take a lot of getting used to, but the payoff is quite a kick.
Those who are easily frustrated should be warned that the action in Oni is fast and furious, and it's easy to get killed again and again at times--with each death followed by an annoyingly slow reload time. This is especially true when fighting multiple opponents who have the advantage of not being distracted by disorienting camera angles. --Joe Hon
Pros:
Fast-and-furious mix of hand-to-hand and weapons-based combat
Silky smooth character animations; stylized, effective onscreen displays
New special moves are "learned" as the game progresses
Japanese anime-influenced cyberpunk story line
Cons:
Understated 3-D environments
Not for those easily frustrated by complex controls
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awesome game but could be better Oni is one of the first ps2 games ever to start off which means this is before it started to get the extremely beautiful graphics but this game has good graphics for ps2 at the time. Brought to you by the infamous Rockstar games that brought you such titles such as GTA Vice City and Midnight Club 2,it chronicles the career of Konoko an officer who learns that she is part of an experiment started by her late father and when she starts to uncover the truth about what she is everyone turns on her. Now she must fight for the truth and her life.Great plot with good anime cinematics the whole thing is reminiscent of ghost in the shell. The game play goes from descent to somewhat difficult at times and the game does have a few glitches but all in all it is a good game that just didn't realize its full potential.
Fun This is a fun game. It isn't one of those things where you go out and have to learn the weather and water conditions and the proper lures for whatever fish. That's what makes it great - you just go out and catch fish. It is great ... . On the minus side the loading time is pretty long and the graphics aren't really the best.
Amazon.com Political Tycoon is a fast-paced strategy game in which you lead your country to world domination by building factories, harvesting natural resources, and exerting diplomatic and military force. Negotiate international trade deals, blackmail your enemies, and manipulate your way to power. Mold your country from the shadows and watch other nations crumble underneath your thumb.
Political Tycoon features eight different scenarios ranging from the arms race in the 1950s to a post-apocalyptic world in 2050. Enrich your country's economy by utilizing your resources. Send spies to undermine your rivals. Corrupt and blackmail your opponents. Monitor the political climate and win your people's trust. Run a country, its head of state,and its government. Threaten other world powers with nuclear war. Get extensive visual feedback and performance evaluation.
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Boring.... Fellas don't spend a dime on this game. It's boring...
Supposedly you become president / prime minister / leader of a country and you have to deal with other nations like real world.
We all know other countries are not "saints" and protect their very own interests, but this game magnifies "in extremis" this point. What do I mean? "You don't accept this trade agreement? Then booooom, you're nuked!" or "Support my blockade or you're nuked!"... After 3 or 4 turns a nuclear war erupts somewhere and you end up being nuked most of the times!!!
The graphics are not that good either and the plot is sometimes too complex or simple...
you get what you pay for So far i'm not impressed at all by Take 2's $10 each collection. In ball breakers you play a robot and you basically kill other robots to complete levels. The levels all look the same, the robots are all about the same, the control is bad, music is bad, its just overall bad. I'd reccomend putting this $10 on a more expensive game.
