Can you spell 'O.l.d.S.c.h.o.o.l"? (Giant Killers (DC))

Name: jon scanlon

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Product:	Giant Killers (DC)
Date:	03.04.08 (3 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Looks ok in menus

Disadvantages: Plays like a blind dog in matches

If you've loved Championship Manager and their ilk on any system you care to name, then you would be right in expecting a football management game for the Dreamcast that is worthy of this systems' awesome ability to entertain. Unfortunately, Giant Killers looks like it was coded in 1985. As management sims go, this has the least likely looking, and most maddeningly unsatisfying payoff, ever (perhaps) devised.

Management sims are a rare breed of game where the graphics and usual accoutrements you automatically expect of other games, are not supposed to matter. Thing is though - they do matter. Simple text only games died out for good reason decades ago and thought this one features 'scrolling text' (ooooerhhhh!) during matches, it struggles to look even passable amongst all other management sims that have been created for consoles since. Post the most recent crop of playable, deeply involving and quite beautifully animated console sims (LMA and their like), this one looks and feels like it belongs in a museum - out there with Donkey Kong and Scramble!

Even in 2001, this game played like something that had been kept around for 10 years after its first coding (I suspect that's exactly what the developer did!). Now, its nothing more than a curio, and a rather boring one at that. Competently handled, but simply outclassed in playability and interest by every other management sim I have ever played.

Summary: No.