Virtua Striker 2 (DC)

When Sega decided to call it a day with the Sega Dreamcast they went on to produce games for their previously rival companies such as Nintendo, and Sony. Since Sega has been producing titles for these consoles they have arguably had the most success since the Sega Megadrive reeling off an array of quality titles for the gaming public including the likes of Crazy Taxi, Virtua Fighter 3, Sonic, and other various gems. If one casts their mind back to the days of the Dreamcast and Saturn one should remember Sega’s Virtua brand, a series of Sega games with Virtua thrown onto the front of the name. These games were not too dissimilar to the Actua series from Gremlin that ...  Read the complete review

When I bought this game I was trying to buy a football game due my apparent lack of them. I'd treated myself to the Fifa Games on my Playstation, the ISS games on my N64 and now it was the turn of the Dreamcast. I have learnt my lesson. The Dreamcast is an arcade machine, there is no doubt about it. With the games you play in the arcade appearing on it daily you could be forgiven for thinking you could slot a dreamcast into an arcade machines shell and charge people a pound a go. This is great for some games, take the fighting Genre where we were initially treated to the likes of Soul Calibur and Power Stone, but I challenge any of you to find a good ...  Read the complete review

Virtua is a byword for sports excellence in every arcade in the world. So what happened here then? In the football sim world I consider Sensible Soccer to be the Premier League, ISS to be the First Division, UEFA Striker to be the Second Division and FIFA to be the Third Division. By this reckoning Virtua Striker 2 is the Guatamalan Pub League. Never in my life have I hated a game so much. Some games have annoyed me. Some games have frustrated me. This game has driven me to the point where even seeing its name can lead to me throwing a fit on the floor. Up until this point I'm sure this opinion has sounded like the deranged rantings of a lunatic. Let's ...  Read the complete review

This has to be one of the most ludicrous games around.So the graphics are good, but the game has come straight from the Arcades, except much of it got lost on the way. The game is so utterly pathetic, there's only four moves 'shoot, short pass, long pass, slide (which means tackle)' and the game itself doesn't gell together like a game should. there's no official status, and there's no commentry - or if there is I can't remember it - it's such an awful game. Connecting two passes together is a virtually impossible task, and actually playing the game is a joke. This game deserves no credit, only the skip/ Buy it and be shocked, nothing can ...  Read the complete review

I don't know why no other companies can make decent games, but it seems the only decent ones are the FIFA editions made by EA Sports- Why they do not make Dreamcast Games I do not know, because they could make a fortune. This game was another disappointing football game, I am sorry to say, but then I am comparing it to FIFA 2001, so maybe thats unfair. The graphics, as on all games on Dreamcast was top notch and the players look very realistic, and the moves they made were very realistci. Unfortunately this is where the praise for this game ends. You do not really have control of your players, the computer has and it does not ...  Read the complete review