Archive for the ‘Review’ Category
Monday, March 18th, 2024
1991’s Asterix for the Master System is a game that is likely going to be shrugged off as “Euro trash” by a certain contingent of retro gamers (cough cough, Americans, cough cough) thanks to the franchise’s French origins. Licensed platformers also don’t have a great track record when it comes to quality, but what we’ve got here is an internally developed SEGA platformer from an era when the company were on a hot streak.
Click here to read our full written review of Asterix for the Master System.
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Sunday, March 17th, 2024
Released in 1989; Bomber Raid for the Master System is a vertically-scrolling shoot-em-up developed by Sanritsu and is infamous for being the final Master System game officially published by SEGA in Japan during the console’s lifespan. As a result of being a game that released in Japan, it also has a secret FM soundtrack that anyone in the PAL territories could never really access during the console’s original run, as those regions never received the FM Sound Unit or a version of the Master System where it’s built into the console itself.
Click here to read our full written review of Bomber Raid for the Master System.
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Tags: bomber raid, master system, review, shmup, shoot em up
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Sunday, November 20th, 2022
The release of a new Sonic game has become a somewhat sad affair over the course of the last decade, right after it seemed like he was finding his footing with games like Sonic Colours and Sonic Generations. So after nearly two full run-throughs of the game, it brings me great joy to say that Sonic Frontiers is the best Modern Sonic title released in the past 10 years. In fact, there’s elements of it I think I enjoy more than Generations! It’s also, however, a game with no shortage of issues; in ways that often feel much like ‘first game syndrome’ for the ‘open-zone’ concept that Takashi Iizuka believes could form the future of Sonic games.
Read our full written review, and watch our in-depth video review, by clicking here.
When Tracker isn’t playing SEGA games, he’s talking about SEGA games. Or drawing about SEGA games. Or all of the above. You can also catch him over on Twitter.
Tags: nintendo switch, pc, ps4, PS5, sonic frontiers, sonic team, steam, xbox one, Xbox Series
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Saturday, June 25th, 2022
SEGA aren’t exactly strangers to wheeling out the Classic Sonic games now. It’s a running joke amongst the fanbase that every Sonic fan owns at least 30 different copies of the original game across just about every gaming platform known to man. Hell – I had Sonic the Hedgehog on my chunky old iPod Classic! But after the rather staggering way SEGA stuffed up Sonic Colours Ultimate last year, I don’t think it’s unreasonable that some people were even more wary of Sonic Origins than they’d usually be. The good news is that this isn’t the mess that Sonic’s Wii outing got turned into. The bad news is that Sonic Origins is still a very flawed package, full of glaring errors and mistakes that are made more aggravating knowing they could’ve been very easily fixed.
Read our full review of Sonic Origins on Nintendo Switch by clicking here.
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Tags: headcannon, nintendo switch, review, sonic 3 & knuckles, sonic cd, Sonic Origins, sonic the hedgehog, sonic the hedgehog 2
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Wednesday, April 6th, 2022
The House of the Dead is a long-running series from SEGA’s beloved arcade team AM2. The original game sees AMS agents Thomas Rogan and ‘G’ set off to the Curien Mansion, after Rogan’s fiance Sophie warns them that the research team based there are being murdered. Sure enough, the duo arrive just in time to see a creature (the original development team insist they’re not zombies) eating a researcher’s face, and so they get to work trying to find the cause of all the bloodshed. The setup is exactly the same for this remake as you’d probably expect.
Click here to read our full review of The House of the Dead Remake for the Nintendo Switch.
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Tags: forever entertainment, megapixel studio s.a., microids, rail shooter, review, switch, the house of the dead, the house of the dead remake
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Monday, March 28th, 2022
With the first Sonic the Hedgehog movie, Jeff Fowler and company managed to establish this cinematic version of the character in a more realistic scenario. It certainly contained a fair bit of Sonic franchise iconography, but it was a film that was considerably more grounded and may have left Sonic fans a little wanting. With the foundations now laid, Sonic the Hedgehog 2 fully leans into the more extravagant concepts of the games it is based on and delivers one of the best video game-to-movie adaptations there has ever been.
Click here to read our full review of the Sonic the Hedgehog 2 movie.
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Tags: ben schwartz, feature, film, idris elba, jeff fowler, jim carrey, movie, review, sonic the hedgehog, sonic the hedgehog 2
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Thursday, December 16th, 2021
Retro-bit recently re-released Mega Man: The Wily Wars for Mega Drive/SEGA Genesis and our guest contributor David Crint has written a brilliant analysis of the new packaging that goes into detail about what the collection offers alongside detailed analysis of the product’s quality. Please be aware that this feature contains no criticism of the actual software, with the focus being on the packaging of the collector’s edition re-release of Mega Man: The Wily Wars by Retro-bit and how it compares to the original release.
Click here to read David Crint’s guest feature on the Mega Man: The Wily Wars Collector’s Edition from Retro-bit.
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Tags: collector's edition, feature, guest feature, mega drive, mega man: the wily wars, packaging, retro-bit, review, sega genesis
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Saturday, October 16th, 2021
After the disappointment that Sonic Colours Ultimate left in its wake, I was a little uneasy going into Super Monkey Ball: Banana Mania. It certainly looked the part, but I still had this nagging feeling that they were going to dramatically mess something up. Thankfully, my fears were for nought. Banana Mania does almost everything I could want from a remake of Super Monkey Ball Deluxe, albeit with a few small issues that impact the experience to varying degrees.
Click here to read our full review of the Xbox Series X version of Super Monkey Ball: Banana Mania.
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Tuesday, September 14th, 2021
The Sonic the Hedgehog franchise is now 30 years old and along with this monumental anniversary comes a brand new port of Sonic Colours to PS4, Xbox One, Switch and PC called Sonic Colours Ultimate. Both Tracker and Sonic Yoda have played the PS4 and Xbox One versions and have put together an extensive, bumper review of both versions for you to read. Is Sonic Colours Ultimate really the ultimate version of Sonic Colours? Find out by clicking below!
Click here to read our full, double review of Sonic Colours Ultimate for PS4 and Xbox One.
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Tags: ps4, review, sonic colours, Sonic Colours Ultimate, sonic the hedgehog, xbox one
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Wednesday, July 14th, 2021
SEGA Mania is a brand new, full colour print fanzine from Tim Hugall, Simon Pike and Sam Forrester with a huge emphasis on reviving the 1990s. The team make no qualms about wearing their influences on their sleeves, as the magazine is a clear homage to the wild west of UK SEGA magazines like Mean Machines SEGA, MegaTech, SEGA Power and SEGA Force, but now with the modern advantage of hindsight.
Read our full review of the first issue by clicking this link.
SEGA Mania issue 1 can be ordered from the SEGA Mania Online Store.
Webmaster and lead writer at SEGADriven. Likes old games, heavy music and too much pizza. Follow on Twitter @kronkblats
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