Post by soop on Aug 29, 2018 14:04:56 GMT
Well this is late...
Gate of Thunder is one of the most famous shooters on the system. They pull off a lot of fantastic tricks with the hardware that Chris Covell himself would be proud of, but underlying that, is the years of experience the Technosoft staff and Red/Hudson have put into this exemplary shooter. Everything about it is precise, jaw dropping, and explosive. I can't imagine how it must have been to experience this in the 90's, but even years later, it's enough to raise the hairs on the back of your neck. And let's not forget a banging soundtrack. This is one of the reasons to own the system, and it's rightly regarded as one of the best shooters of the era - on any system.
World Heroes 2, is a strange one - on one hand, this is a fantastic port of the Neo Geo original, leaps and bounds better than the SNES version, and more accurate. On the other hand, it's not the best Neo Geo fighter. Maybe there are reasons, but as SNK were churning out fighting games, trying to find their niche, they were clearly onto something with their other series. Maybe it was just timing, but I'd have loved to have seen a Samurai Shodown (II) port. Still, as fighting games go, it's easy to look back at the paths that Streetfighter II in particular paved, and to dismiss games like World Heroes II, but as you can see from some of the other fighters on the system, this one was actually really good for it's time, if a tad dated now. Big colourful sprites, and it's responsive, which you need. Not bad SNK, not bad at all.
Gate of Thunder is one of the most famous shooters on the system. They pull off a lot of fantastic tricks with the hardware that Chris Covell himself would be proud of, but underlying that, is the years of experience the Technosoft staff and Red/Hudson have put into this exemplary shooter. Everything about it is precise, jaw dropping, and explosive. I can't imagine how it must have been to experience this in the 90's, but even years later, it's enough to raise the hairs on the back of your neck. And let's not forget a banging soundtrack. This is one of the reasons to own the system, and it's rightly regarded as one of the best shooters of the era - on any system.
World Heroes 2, is a strange one - on one hand, this is a fantastic port of the Neo Geo original, leaps and bounds better than the SNES version, and more accurate. On the other hand, it's not the best Neo Geo fighter. Maybe there are reasons, but as SNK were churning out fighting games, trying to find their niche, they were clearly onto something with their other series. Maybe it was just timing, but I'd have loved to have seen a Samurai Shodown (II) port. Still, as fighting games go, it's easy to look back at the paths that Streetfighter II in particular paved, and to dismiss games like World Heroes II, but as you can see from some of the other fighters on the system, this one was actually really good for it's time, if a tad dated now. Big colourful sprites, and it's responsive, which you need. Not bad SNK, not bad at all.
