Why was this game made?

User Rating: 3.5 | Spikeout: Battle Street XBOX
By nappan | Review Date:
This is one of those games that makes you sit back and take stock of the gaming universe. With games like God of War, Splinter Cell: CT, and Tekken 5 coming out you have GOT to wonder what Sega was thinking when they chose to make this game. I understand that "nostalgia" is a real commodity, but this is more of what I'd term a "throwback". I'm yet to play a 3d game of this type without massive dissapointment, and this game is no exception. The thing that bothers me most, is that this doesn't feel like the latest attempt to bridge the 2d-3d gap, but a very EARLY one. The game is downright clumsy, with endless button mashing as the order of the day. Maybe the devs were going for the kind of simple control scheme featured in some of the newer (excellent) games like God of War, or DBZ Boudokai 3. What they failed to realize however, is that to achieve the kind of engaging feel those other games achieve, you need to you more than ONE button. Gamespot's reviewer is not exaggerating when it's states that you press little more than xxxxx. The moves themselves, as with the whole graphical package, is truly lackluster. "looks like a good dreamcast game" was a generous appelation if you ask me. It has that blurry "smudged" look that I don't assocaite with this generation of games. The game itself is a purgatory of repetitious "action", poor graphics and... ah yes, the sound. The sound is TERRIBLE. From the first moment of music and voice over, you can see that sega didn't understand that to bring a classic gaming style into the present, you do not simply COPY it. "Cooool". Oh god. I cannot overstate how deeply annoying that becomes. All in all, I played this game for 4 hours, and I felt cheated by the experience. Avoid this game.

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