Sega Genesis Gain Ground (Amiga)

On the Mega Drive Collection theirs this rather bizarre game that I'd never even heard of until I bought the collection released in the early part of the 1990's. Though a long way from being one of the better games on the collection it was a nice look into one of the early Mega Drive/Genesis games. It started life in the late 1980's on the arcade before it was ported to the Mega Drive and in turn the Master System and now finds it's self on a host of collection disks and the Wii's virtual Console. The game utilises a top down view (similar to some RTS games) and sees the player controlling a member of a team with special abilities as they try to reach a ...  Read the complete review

Gain Ground is a funny old game to say the least. Before playing it, I had never played anything similar and I cannot think of anything I have played like it since. It is based on Sega's original arcade game, but has a couple of interesting tweaks over that version. In the future, a supercomputer has taken over control of the world. You have to take your elite force of troops through its carefully constructed worlds and destroy it! Or something like that anyways. It doesn't really matter in the scheme of things if I am honest. The game starts with you looking down on an arena in a birds eye view. These arenas vary in theme, becoming increasingly ...  Read the complete review