02 July 2012, 09:22 | #21 |
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Most people tend to say Zool was over-rated, and apart from a few over-zealous magazines back in the day its reception was a bit luke warm. To me this suggests it wasnt over-rated as it clearly wasnt rated all that highly
Having said this though I thought Zool2 was a really nice platformer, and was what the original Zool should have been. It's a shame the amiga version was the worst version released. Check out Zool2 on PC or Jaguar and the amiga version doesnt reach the standards set by them. I still enjoyed it on amiga, but it wasnt as good as the other versions. As for the James Pond series, I personally think Robocod is one of the best ever platformers and holds its own against Mario and Sonic. On the surface it may appear a little generic, but when a person really delves in they soon discover its not what's on the surface that makes it so great. SWIV Id have to agree with. It'k not bad, but far from great. Very basic gameplay and boring backdrops. It plays like a slick SEUCK game so much that theres even a clone done with seuck which manages to play pretty similarly (one of the better seuck games admittedly, but this doesnt stop it highlighting the very basic gameplay of SWIV). |
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Overrated: any Sensible Soccer, Zool 1&2, Pinball Illusions, Street Fighter II, Cannon Fodder, Gods, James Pond.
I realise lots of people love those games, just didn't do it for me. Edit: actually, I played Cannon Fodder(s) on the PC. Sorry, if the Amiga version is much better. Need to re-visit these some time. |
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Another case in point is the brilliant Nitro. Amiga Format didn't have a bad word to say about it and summed up with: "Verdict * Graphics are colourful and well drawn and help portray the racy action. * Enjoyable and competitive gameplay, especially with three human players * An addictive and playable translation of a tried and tested theme. * The best race game of its type - even better than official coin-op conversions" The rating? 84%...! Quote:
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02 July 2012, 16:51 | #24 |
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Overrated :- Barbarian games,Virus,Frontier
Underrated :- Side Winder,Bart Vs Space Mutants,Battle Squadron |
02 July 2012, 18:26 | #25 |
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Some of you are saying Sensible Soccer is overrated? What about Football Glory? A ballsy clone rated 95% by CUAmiga. Haha, Tony Dillon striked again.
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02 July 2012, 18:48 | #26 |
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Gods really is the Marmite of Amiga games
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We've had Supercars mentioned here and I agree that's a very playable game. I'd like to nominate ATR as being under-rated, again not one that's considered a bad game just a game that doesn't get mentioned as much as something like Super Skidmarks, for example. |
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02 July 2012, 19:29 | #29 |
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Gods is faster on SNES and unplayable because of that.
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02 July 2012, 21:50 | #30 |
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- Captive !! the best Amiga game i ever played ! - Bloodwych !! This one was really much underrated. Mainly because it's mediocre graphics, i guess. The game is LOOOnnng, and has that special dungeon crawler feeling that immense dungeons give to me. - some sort of strategy game i loved to play, unfortunatly i forgot it's name. It was a shareware, i think, that was on an aminet set CD. You had to build up your planet, with collecting ressources, and building starships if i remember, and later you could go to other planets and colonize these too, and affter some time aliens came and attacked your planets. I don't remember exactly anymore, it was like 20 years agoo. Really not sure, but the name could have been something like "Colonization" (?). Edit: no, was not that name, just googled "Amiga colonization" wich was some Sid Meier game. But pretty sure the name was similar. |
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02 July 2012, 23:42 | #32 |
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Underrated: Chaos Engine, well perhaps not, but still quite surprised how many non Amiga gamers know about this game. I think in terms of sound design alone the game deserves more exposure. Dynamic music that would change depending on your location and extremely clever use of sound blending, mixing ambient sounds with the soundtrack all within the tight restraints of the Amiga's humble 4 channel sound. Genius. As for gameplay it wasn't original at all but it played well and looked great. Party power!
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Overrated - Gods (the walking animation, the scrolling, the countless boring pull lever 'puzzles'), Cannon Fodder II (aliens, ugh - not a patch on the original)
Underrated - The Killing Game Show - a save game facility is all this game needed to make it a classic. Odyssey - a clever shapeshifting, puzzle platformer on an epic scale |
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Underated...
I genuinely cannot understand why Banshee is not raved about more often. It is 1942, reworked with awesome graphics and gameplay. There is just so much detail, it is beautiful to watch and there's always something new to see. Plus it's Steampunk which by it's very nature is awesome. The gameplay is pitched just right too, a cracking shooter, hard enough to be a challenge, but not psychotically difficult like some others. Overated... Quite a few for me, but top of the list is Superfrog I'm arfaid. Just don't like it. The sound track is annoying as all hell after a few minutes, and the main character and graphics are to corny cutesy. I don't mind "cute" games, I love RodLand, Rainbow Islands, New Zealnad Story and Bubble Bobble, but something about trees with faces makes my fists itch. I dunno, a frog in a cape? Just seems to be trying to hard. |
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... no matter where you go... there are super-frog haters everywhere.... bless them for they know not what
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If there was one game I thought that nobody would have on their overrated list, it would be Monkey Island... Guess there was to be a connection between that and the love for Craptive somewhere
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