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Yes, graphics are really the least of my worries. I don't really care about obscure texturing specifications; as long as I'm having fun I don't care how it looks. Otherwise I wouldn't have such a large VC collection. Anyway, from the trailers, I think the game looks lovely in motion. As far as I'm concerned, the recent screenshot's I've seen look fine too. They have several months before the game is supposed to be released and, personally, I'd much rather the time was spent honing the gameplay towards perfection, rather than the graphics.

Wow, it looks magnificent in motion. Both trailers look good. I hope it plays well.

Yes, definitely. Most people agree that it's the best ever Sonic game. (Sonic 3 and Knuckles is the other contender for best Sonic game but you need two games to play it; Sonic 3 locked onto Sonic and Knuckles.)

Virtua Tennis 3? Outrun 2? Afterburner Climax? Virtua Fighter 5? Just because most of their best and most popular franchises haven't, sadly, been released on Nintendo consoles doesn't mean the games don't exist.

Yeah, great game. It was also released for Acorns, AtariSTs and PCs. Sadly it was never ported to the Mega Drive, SNES or any other platform on the VC.

Streets of Rage II is fantastic. I've been playing it loads since it was released. I'm looking forward to playing it in 2 player mode. I generally prefer run-and-gun games to beat 'em ups, but Streets of Rage II is the peak of its genre for me. There's still some good run-and-gun games to come to the VC: Alien Soldier (Treasure / SEGA / Mega Drive) Contra: Hard Corps (Konami / Konami / Mega Drive) Any others?

I saw on http://wii.smoothartist.com/?show=released that this game has an online mode. Is it worth getting for this? I don't really know much about the game. I got the LAN adapter and want to get a game with online features.

Have you played it? It gets slated by people who make the ridiculous mistake of comparing it to a game that was not only designed for far more powerful hardware but would be utterly impossible on any 16-bit era machine. Calling the game Virtua Fighter was a big mistake. If they'd called it anything else it would be reviewed for what it is, not for what it couldn't ever possibly be.

Erm, no. Virtua Fighter 2 is probably the best fighter on 16-bit hardware. They got the most possible out of the hardware. Its gameplay is massively deep too. The only problem was it was released about 2 years after eveyone had moved on to 32-bit hardware. Read the review at: http://www.sega-16.com/Review-%20Virtua%20Fighter%202.php They praise it through the whole review, don't have a bad word to say about it and it gets 6/10 purely because it will always be known as "the other version". (This is fair, really.)

I think they were pretty much identical. The main difference is the Mega Drive didn't have long loading delays between levels, like the SNES version. Source: http://www.sega-16.com/Review-%20Mickey%20Mania.php

Of cource they can. Sadly they just haven't been comming Nintendo's way. For example: Outrun 2 and Virtua Fighter 5.

At least Mario will win the swimming event. Sonic will have to sit that one out... unless he's given arm bands.

This is the stupidest idea for a game I've ever heard. Sonic was actually designed to be faster than Mario. They'll have to slow Sonic way down and speed Mario right up to make them anything like fair, destroying both characters. Bizarrely, I still want to play it.

Ah, some good games there. I've found reviews for some of them: The Story of Thor (called Beyond Oasis in America) Sonic Spinball Vectorman Of those I've played Vectorman and Sonic Spinball. Vectorman is utterly awesome. I've never been a fan of pinball games so Sonic Spinball isn't really up my street. I'm looking forward to The Story of Thor, it gets a good review. Actually, the site they're from ( http://www.sega-16.com/Reviews%20Genesis.php ) has lots of good reviews. I pretty much agree with everything said about the games I've played. Sadly they only have Mega Drive games. Anyone found any good sites for SNES and TurboGrafx games?

At last! Vectorman's a great platformer/shooter with polished gameplay and stunning graphics.

You can turn the skills you've unlocked on and off on each of the 4 rings you can choose before you play a level (A, B, C and D). I'd set up a speed ring, will all sorts of speed boost improving stuff and things that let you recover faster after taking a hit. Set up other rings for specific types of mission. Eg, you might want a ring without all the speed stuff but with good defensive and attacking things or maybe a ring set up for exploration (slow but manuverable, longer jump boosts, etc) for finding the fire souls.

Yes, I'd go for Sonic. At first the controls and Sonic's slowness are a little frustrating. Sonic probably starts off so slow, though, to give you a chance to learn the controls. Once you level Sonic up he gets really impressively fast. You can go back and blitz though the earlier levels and get a gold medal no problem. And doing so is immensely fun.

You press once to start speed (or time) break and again to stop it. Push forward like you do for a homing attack between "1" and "Go" for a turbo start. Backwards jump is done by turning the wiimote upsidedown and pressing 2. You need the relevant skills equipt on your ring of course.

Yes, much better than Sonic 1. (Sonic 1 is worth having, but not a must-have unless you're a Platformer or Sonic fanatic.) I think Saturn emulation is unlikly. The games came on CD, so single disc games had a max size of about 650 MB. That's more than the Wii's entire internal memory for downloads and stuff.

Might I recommend Ristar? It's a brilliant game with great gameplay. The graphics are beautiful; well drawn, stylish, colourful and there are really nice special effects at certain points in levels. The music is also perfect.

Streets of Rage 2 is the one I really want, of course. But SoR should keep me going until then.

There's lots of good things it might be, for example: Virtua Tennis for the Wii Streets of Rage 4 Virtua Fighter for the Wii Ristar sequel NiGHTS into Dreams sequel A traditional Japanese style RPG Phantasy Star sequel Shining Force sequel Vectorman sequel Jet Set Radio sequel New Crazy Taxi game Virtua Cop sequel I doubt it will be Shenmue 3, everyone knows the series is unfinnished, so a sequel wouldn't be a big surprise.

OK, thanks for the info. I'll have to hold out a bit longer for SoR, then...

Anyone know what games we're getting in Europe this Friday? I have my fingers crossed for Streets of Rage, since America got it this week.

Pfft. When a reviewer feels they need to explicitly explain the review score they give, it really ought to ring alarm bells telling them that a) their score doesn't match the review they've written and b) they probably have prejudices that are clouding their judement. Sigh. It's so irritating; spending time reading a worthless review. I suppose you still get a fair indication of the game by reading the main body of the review and ignoring the final summary and scores section.