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| HeavyMetalGamer's Last 25 Game Reviews |
Mega Man: The Power Battle (CPS1, USA 951006) 12-24-16 10:32 AM |
Mega Man: The Power Battle Review - Heavy Metal Gamer Show Mega Man: The Power Battle is an interesting take on the Mega Man series. It's not your normal 2D platformer where you go through levels. It's actually based on the boss fight. Some consider this to be a fighting game, which really you are not using your fists or feet, but you are shooting at the other robot masters. Mega Man: The Power Battle was developed and published by Capcom, and was released in Japan in 1995. It was released originally in the arcade. Dr. Wily has rebuilt some of his robot masters and is looking to take over the world. You can play as either Mega Man, Proto Man and Bass, and you are trying to stop Dr. Wily. After you select your character, you can choose between three stories, they are actually based on the first 7 Mega Man games, which is pretty cool. The first story is 1-2, 3-6, and of course 7. Now it's not every robot master from those games, it's certain ones, and I really like that, although having all of them would of been cool, and make for a challenge. Once you choose what story you want to do, you get a roulette wheel style wheel and when you hit a button it will stop on whatever level you will go to. While in a fight, you can shoot the normal way, or hold down the shoot button and give the enemy a charge blast. Once you defeat that robot master, you can use their powers against other enemies, which is also cool. Just like in the past Mega Man games, certain power ups will do more damage then others, so you have to choose wisely. Not only that, you can do dashing, jumping, and so on. Now when it comes to difficulty, I think this game is easier then the classic Mega Man series. Especially the boss battles, it didn't take me very long to get through the first story of the game, and most of the second story. Granted I was playing this on MAME, but I didn't use many credits. I think I died once just on the first story. The graphics for Mega Man: The Power Battle look great, the animations are very well done, the ... Read the rest of this Review |
E.D.F. : Earth Defense Force 09-16-16 07:37 PM |
Heavy Metal Gamer: Earth Defense Force (Arcade) Review When some gamer's see the name Earth Defense Force, some will say, what the hell is that? Some will then say, OH MAN I LOVE THOSE GAMES ON THE XBOX 360 AND PS3! Well those games are fun and all, but did you know there was another game with the same title in Arcades and ported later on to the Super Nintendo? I am sure some did, but many probably didn't. So I figure I would review the Arcade version of the game. Earth Defense Force in the arcade was developed and published by Jaleco, it was released on the Arcade in 1991. It was released on the Super Nintendo the same year. Earth Defense Force is a side scrolling shoot em up, where you must take down the evil organization AGYMA as they are threatening 200 years of peace in the galaxy. You will work for the Earth Defense Force piloting a special craft known as the XA-1. There are 6 levels in Earth Defense Force with 8 state of the art weapons which you will use to kick some enemy ass, and take down AGYMA's plot to destroy earth and the galaxy. Back in the day you had a lot of side scrolling shoot em ups, ranging from Gradius, U.N Squadron, R-Type and more, these games were so much fun, and even to this day kicks a lot of ass. The graphics for Earth Defense Force are damn nice, the animations are great, there is a lot of action on screen, there are some bullet hell like moments that you will have to deal with, the ships and enemies are nice, the explosions are great, the game is very colorful, the backgrounds are really well done, there is no slowdowns or glitching. Jaleco did a bad ass job with this game. The music and sound effects are great, the music kicks ass, and Jaleco to me always did a great job on music. I like how well composed the music is, it shows a lot of effort went to it. The sound effects are nice as well, with the shooting, explosions and so on. The difficulty is tough, especially when you have a lot of stuff going on around you, and bullets flying everywhere, that's typical with s... Read the rest of this Review |
Ed Hunter 09-15-16 03:35 PM |
Heavy Metal Gamer: Ed Hunter Review What happens when you mix video games with the heavy metal band Iron Maiden? You get Ed Hunter. I mean who wouldn't want to play a video game based on Iron Maiden's albums? I definitely would! Ed Hunter was developed by Synthetic Dimensions and published by EMI Record. It was released in 1999 on PC. It never had a console release or anything. Ed Hunter was packed in with the Ed Hunter 3 CD greatest hits collection. There are 20 tracks from Iron Maiden's career at the time, and then the game. Now I love a cheesy rail shooter game like House of the Dead, CarnEvil and many others, and Ed Hunter fits right in. You play as a hired private detective looking to free Eddie the Head (Eddie for short) which is Iron Maiden's mascot as he is locked up in an insane asylum. You start out the game in London's East Side, shooting thugs armed with guns, bottles and whatever else they can use to try and take you down. Some of the thugs will charge at you, others will pop up and try to get you. The game then moves into the asylum where Eddie escapes. Once Eddie escapes you move your way through a variety of levels including Hell. There are a total of 7 levels that you will blast through, and most of them are quite lengthy, sometimes a bit too long and tedious. There is multiplayer in Ed Hunter, but it's only local multiplayer, you would have to have a friend over to play the game with you. I remember getting this game when I was younger and having friends come over and take turns playing the game. There are power ups you can pick up ranging from health, better weapons and other things which is always nice to find. Especially because later on the enemies can be a bit on the difficult side. The graphics are good, but outdated, the game is colorful but quite dark, which in some levels fits the mood. Of course I can't complain too much about the graphics because of this game is from 1999, not 2016. The animations are nice, the enemies look odd, pretty much it fits Iron ... Read the rest of this Review |
Hooters Road Trip 09-15-16 12:03 PM |
Heavy Metal Gamer: Hooter's Road Trip (PSX) I wonder who thought it was a bright idea to take a restaurant like Hooter's and make a racing game out of it? I mean don't get me wrong, I think Hooter's is a great place, I am not gonna make this sound like "ugh that place is sexist and rude towards women" I mean if women didn't like working there, they simply wouldn't work there, but this is more about, why make a game out of the Hooter's name? Well it happened, and it's not very good. It's quite awful. Hooter's Road Trip was developed by Hoplite Research and published by Ubisoft. It was released in 2002 on the PlayStation and PC. Hooter's Road Trip is a arcade driving/racing game where must travel from city to city trying to avoid traffic, and racing against opponents. You must win every race to move on to the next level or the next city. There are skill tests in this game sponsored by Hooter's, oh sponsored? Do they give free chicken wings? Fried pickles? A free burger and fries? A hug from one of the Hooter's girls? Nope, you just learn how to drive better, which is laughable at best. If you win the races, you will get to meet a Hooter's girl from the state you win it. You will get a cut scene of them saying "Hey there, welcome to Jacksonville" or "HEY YALL WELCOME TO TEXAS!" The acting is awful, just awful, but then again, these girls are not actresses, they are Hooter's waitresses, so I can't really bash on them too hard. There are 12 different vehicles you can choose from ranging from a variety of fast cars, for instance I like choosing the muscle cars, because they kick a lot of ass. Now you can test drive, practice and of course Road Trip. Test drive you just drive around, practice, you pretty much just learn how to drive, and Road Trip is where you go city to city, unlocking vehicles by winning and meeting all the Hooter's girls. The graphics for Hooter's Road Trip are bland, some say this game looks like the Destruction Derby games, and yes I can kind of see that, but at the same tim... Read the rest of this Review |
Virtua Racing 09-15-16 02:35 AM |
Heavy Metal Gamer: Virtua Racing (Arcade) Review Virtua Racing is an arcade racing game that was developed and published by Sega and was released in the arcades in 1992. It can also be found on the Sega Genesis in 1994, and it even had a Sega 32X and Sega Saturn port later on. The game is a 3D polygon style racing game. Matter of fact the game was the first 3D polygon racing game that Sega ever released. This was before Daytona USA, Sega GT Championship, and other great racing games that they developed in the arcade. You will drive a Formula 1 car on 3 different tracks that are setup by the difficulty levels in the game. Those levels are Beginner, Intermediate and Expert. The track names in that order are, Big Forrest, Bay Bridge, and Acropolis. Each racetrack has it's own environment and layout with winding turns and long straight stretches to go at high speeds. Each race will have 16 opponents, and there is even a multiplayer mode that you can race against a friend, which in the arcade, you can play against each other on a twin cabinet, which is 2 machines built into 1 arcade cabinet. The graphics are nice, the game is in a 3D polygon style and this was huge for it's time. The game is colorful, the layout of the tracks are nice, the game runs very smooth, there is no slowdowns, glitching or anything like that. I think it's very impressive on what Sega did back in the day, especially looking back on the game now. The music is great, and very catchy. If you played a lot of Sega racing games back in the day, they always had music that was catchy, but cheesy at the same time, and I really like that, it was kind of a trademark for Sega when it came to arcade racing games. The sound effects are nice as well, from the sounds of the cars, the screeching of the tires, the crashing, nothing I can complain about. The controls are great. Of course playing the game on MAME, I was using a PlayStation 3 controller, steering is really easy, maybe a little bit slippery, throttle and brake is very easy, and re... Read the rest of this Review |
World Series Baseball 08-18-16 12:48 PM |
Heavy Metal Gamer: World Series Baseball Baseball use to be one of my favorite sports back when I was a younger, but not so much now. Back when I was a kid, I was a huge Seattle Mariners fan. There was players like Edgar Martinez, Ken Griffey Jr, Jay Buhner, and more that were stars of the team. Of course after the year they won 116 games I lost interest in the team, and in baseball in general, but that doesn't mean I hate baseball video games. So I figure I would review World Series Baseball on the Sega Genesis. Now I use to play this game a ton back when I was a kid, I remember renting this all the time from a local video store, and then buying it later on after the place shut down. Me and a good friend of mine use to spent hours playing this game, either playing a game against each other, or doing Home Run Derby, which is a badass mode. World Series Baseball is developed by Blue Sky Software and published by Sega, it was released in 1994 on the Sega Genesis. There are 28 teams, and 6 divisions with 700 players that were around during the time. Which is around a great time of baseball, you had classic players, then again, the mid 90's to early 2000's you had players in their prime. Big names too, Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, Mark McGuire, Derek Jeter, and more. There is a Exhibition, Season, and even mutliplayer modes in this game, along with a Tournament mode. Season Mode allows you play a full 162 game season, which is quite fun, but very time consuming. Although there was one time I actually did do a full season, and went to the World Series, but I lost to the Chicago Cubs in Game 7. I got my ass handed to me, of course this was 14 years ago. I should try and do a 162 game season. The graphics for it's time were damn good, the game has great detail for a game on a 16 bit console. The game is colorful, you can tell the players on the screen in the top down view are actual players and not blips. The stadiums are well designed and look great. The game doesn't glitch or slowdown, nothing I... Read the rest of this Review |
Test Drive Off-Road 08-18-16 12:13 PM |
Heavy Metal Gamer: Test Drive-Off Road As a young kid I loved playing racing games, I would spent a ton of hours playing classics like F-Zero, Super Mario Kart, and then later on the Need For Speed series, Test Drive, and of course Test Drive Off-Road. Now I am more familiar with the PC version, but since I will have a video at the end of this review, like my other reviews I have written on here, I am going to talk about the PlayStation version, because thanks to emulation, I get to play the game. The good thing? Both the PC and PS1 versions of this game are pretty much the same game. Test Drive Off-Road was developed by Motive Time and published by Accolade. It was released in 1997. Test Drive Off-Road is exactly how it sounds, a off-road racing game. Test Drive has been around for a long time, but they decided to jump into the off-road racing genre. In Test Drive Off-Road you can drive 4 off road vehicles, a hummer, jeep, land rover, and a Chevy Z71 pickup. Although no Ford trucks in this game is a bit ridiculous. You can unlock some vehicles through winning races and they are a monster truck, dune buggy and a stock car. There is a mix league and class league modes, mix league has 6 cup tournaments that will have a mixture of vehicles against you, and then class league will be the same vehicle, for instance if you choose the Hummer, it will be all Hummers, where mix league will have maybe a jeep, a land rover, and of course the Chevy Z71. There are 11 different tracks set in a nice variety of environments that include snow and desert. You must go through check points on these tracks, pretty much your typical racing game. If you want to play with a friend you can do that as well, there is couch multiplayer, although I think the PC version at some point had online multiplayer. I want to say there was a time I tried it out, but back when I had dial up internet it was probably going to be very awful. I don't know how anyone played games against each other back then. Other then maybe hooking ... Read the rest of this Review |
Mario Teaches Typing 08-18-16 11:50 AM |
Heavy Metal Gamer: Mario Teache's Typing Mario as an educational game? You wouldn't think it would be a thing, but it is, matter of fact, it was on PC. This was around the time that we never expected Mario to be on PC, I mean back when I first heard about this game, I thought it was some sort of joke, but it isn't. Mario Teaches Typing is a thing, and sometimes I wonder...who the hell thought this was a great idea? Mario Teaches Typing was developed and published by Interplay and was released on the PC in 1991/1992. It was only developed for MS-DOS and Macintosh. I can't believe a friend of mine had a copy of this, but he did have a younger brother that use to play it all the time back then. Mario Teaches Tying teaches you how to type with 4 mini games which are Mario's Smash and Dash, Mario's Wet World Challenge, Mario's Tunnel of Doom and Mario's Expert Express. Now going into a educational game back in the day, especially if they involved Mario or Sonic, you can't really expect much, at least when you are an adult. Of course back in the day, I always was hoping they were platformer games, or something like that, and to a point this game has some platforming elements to it. I mean take a look at Mario's Smash and Dash, look at how you are hitting letters, numbers, and symbols on your keyboard while going right in a platformer like setting. This is actually my favorite mini game in the whole game, but that isn't saying much, because after a while that mini game can become a bit boring. Mario's Wet World is nice, but the name can really set you up for some perverted joke, but this time you go swimming and must avoid enemies by typing. Tunnel of Doom is fun, you type out sentences and so on, and you are in a tunnel with traps, which to me it looks more like a castle rather then a tunnel. The graphics are nice for Mario Teaches Typing, at least for the time. I mean Mario actually looks like Mario it's not some cheap knock off, the enemies look nice, the game is colorful. I am kin... Read the rest of this Review |
Hyper Bounce Blast 08-18-16 01:53 AM |
Heavy Metal Gamer: Hyper Bounce Blast Review Hyper Bounce Blast is a very fun shooter that has a mixture of bullet hell and classic shoot em up style games. The game was developed by Flump Studios and published by Kiss Ltd. It was released on Steam in 2016. Flump Studio is very similar to a game done in the past known as Horizon Shift, but with a few new changes, and gameplay style. There are a nice variety of game modes. Arcade Classic, Arcade Arrange, Free Mode and Boss. These modes are a blast to play, and yes there are bosses in this game, which is cool. Not only is Hyper Bounce Blast a shoot em up, but it has some platforming aspects to it, that allow you to attack enemies and even avoid being shot at. You can even use a wall jump as well. There are a nice variety of enemies and bosses and they are very well designed. There is a bonus mode that reminds me a lot of Centipede and I love that mode, if you are good enough, you can get a ton of points which is nice. The graphics for Hyper Bounce Blast are very well done, nice and bright and colors, almost similar to the Geometry Wars series with florescent colors. The music is good, and fits the game, but it's just not the music I would listen to. I can't say it's awful though, as for the sound effects, very well done. The controls are nice and easy to understand, sometimes they might be a little slow at responding every once in awhile, but it's not a huge flaw. The difficulty is nice as well, and like any game, the farther you go, the more this game will get very tough. I love how the game has a high score leaderboard as well, which is always nice to have in a game like this. I did quite well for a little while, but some people are just badass. Hyper Bounce Blast is fun as hell, the game is something I myself can put a lot of time into, either playing through the game, or going for high score. I do wish there was more to the game, more levels and so on, maybe more bonus levels, but for what the game is, I can't complain too much ... Read the rest of this Review |
Fire Shark 08-12-16 02:13 PM |
Heavy Metal Gamer: Fire Shark (Sega Genesis) Review Fire Shark is a top down view shoot em up on the Sega Genesis. It was originally released in the Arcade in 1989 in Japan and then 1990 in North America. The Sega Genesis port was developed by Toaplan and published by Dreamworks. Fire Shark is a sequel to Flying Shark. If you love top down shoot em ups, this game is right up your alley. The story behind the game has you in the year 19X9, on an alternate Earth. S Corps, which specializes in heavy industrial armies begin invading various countries. You must pilot a super powered World War II plan through 10 levels blasting away a variety of enemies and save the alternate earth. You get some power ups that make you more powerful, on top of that, you have bombs you can drop on your enemies to wipe them off screen. The graphics are awesome looking, well designed especially on a 16 bit console, the game runs smooth, doesn't glitch or flicker. It does look better in the arcade, but for being on the Sega Genesis, I can't complain. The music is bad ass, and very well composed, it fits the game perfectly, and it is something I expect in a game like this. The sound effects are nice as well. The controls work great, using your primary weapon, and bombs is very simple to do, they respond very well, nothing I can complain about. Fire Shark is a bad ass shoot em up, it's not a bullet hell shooter, and it's not impossible, hell I can get quite far, you are gonna die at times unless you are really good at shoot em ups, but the game is a classic, the graphics are awesome, the music and sound effects are damn good, the story is nice, the controls are great, the only thing I wish is that the game was a bit longer, maybe 2 to 4 more levels, but other then that, definitely pick up Fire Shark! If you want to watch my video review, you can check it out here below. [youtube]SUkdhYj0NO8[/youtube] |
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