An improvement over it's PC counterpart. Fun to play!

User Rating: 9 | Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday GEN
By zornundo | Review Date:
I don't know how appealing people will find this game if they weren't around when it first came out. Renting an RPG is pretty much an exercise in futility. It's almost always impossible to beat the game by the time you have to return it. This was waaaaay back when you would rent a game for an evening, maybe two. For a school-age kid, that limited you to renting games on the weekends and then staying up all night and day in a marathon session to attempt to finish it. I'm pretty sure I finished this game, though, and cannot remember if I did it on my first or second try renting the thing. I have sense played this not too long ago (within the last three years, at least) on an emulator and had a raucous time doing so.

This game is an improvement over the PC version. For one thing, the PC version was entirely a first-person perspective dungeon-crawl type game, except for the spaceship time. Imagine my surprise when I found this game for the PC and started a game up and had to navigate it this way??!? I managed to progress very far in the PC version but stopped playing for one reason or another. There was a sequel made for the PC, that would use the characters you created in the first game. The plans for this game seemed fairly grand, to look at some of the skills that you could choose to put some points in. But back to the Genesis version.

This was a very fun game to play, and even better in an emulator, due to the save game and other features in the emulator. I still may have to fire this one up just for nostalgia's sake. Piloting the Maelstrom Rider around and looking for a fight is always a great thing to do if you don't want to progress the game plot any.

I would still recommend this game to any RPG lover out there. It gives one a great perspective on how things have changed and progressed.

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