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Ecco The Dolphin

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 31
Date: June 03, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is the best game ever! You must try it! It will be your favorte! sound is pretty real, Its more like you travel in to diffrent worlds, Most of all I love to jump out of the water and do tricks but I find my self getting cought in the puzzles! Well I'm not going to tell to much it was going to be a suprise, play it for your self and you will know what I meen! ...........

Great Game!(Australian Version)

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 12
Date: July 13, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I have played the import and this is a very great game! The graphics are above 1st class and the conversion from the 2D of Genesis to the 3D of the Dreamcast is unreal! This game is very fun and I would recomend this to anyone.

best game ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: February 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

ecco the dolphin is a classic that should not be lost through meanless games. Dreamcast maybe going out of buisness but Ecco will live forever!! we love you Ecco! you will swim forever in my heart Ecco!

Goregeous, immersive (no pun intended), difficult,satisfying

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I just finished this game. Of course, as everyone has stated, the graphics are amazing. Despite complaints about a boring story, I thought the story, especially once "The Foe" descend, is quite compelling. The story is credited to David Brin, one of my favorite authors (read the uplift books for more on dolphin destinies). The gameplay is quite difficult in some cases. With only subtle clues you need to solve difficult puzzles (some took hours) and then, even if you know what to do, getting Ecco to perform various feats in precisely the right manner takes lots of practice. My favorite thing in the entire game were the levels called "Hanging Water" where Ecco has activated a force field generator that maintains tubes and spheres of water high in the sky that Ecco must navigate and jump between. This level is the most gorgeous thing I've seen on a video game anywhere so far. You'll definitely get your money's worth. Nothing even close on my PS2 yet.

Ecco Makes its Debut on the Dreamcast

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 22, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I have looked foward to this game for quite a long time. When I got it I was amazed at the graphics it had. This game accomplishes what many games have failed at: it is very challenging, yet at the same time it's very fun. The best part about this game is the total freedom you have while playing it. The short version (out of 5): Graphics: 4.7 Control: 4.2 Sound: 4.1 Fun Factor: 4.8 Total: 4.45

~E~c~C~o~

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 26, 2001
Author: Amazon User

First of all this is the BEST game I have ever played and yet seen! You have completly all to yourself FREE controll! Unlike Sonic you have to follow a path. Its a very LONG game but thats what makes games good isent it? I don't like short games so this fits me. If you like Swimming, Long Adventure, and a good Challeng, This is the game for you!

Graphics 9.9 Gameplay 8.9 Story Line 9.9 (Award Winning) Sound 9.8 Music 9.9

Best I've seen! I give it 5 stars best of a kind!

Dolphins are God's gift to humans!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game certainly lives up to the standards it set up in the first two games. In Ecco The Dolphin: Defender of the Future, Ecco must once again save the day, but now the game is up to 21st century expectations. If you have ever wanted to be a dolphin, this game is for you. I've spent hours on the first level alone, just jumping around and swimming. Levels are difficult as we expected and wanted, and the details are amazing. The movie-like plot keeps the player interested. Five stars, forever.

5/08/05 Update:

Gosh, I wrote this a long time ago. Would you believe, I still haven't completed this game? I do not think I made myself clear enough, this game has a near vertical learning curve. I've found that I'll play for a couple of days straight, and then put the game aside for a few months (or maybe it's been a year, I can't recall). I like that it's so difficult, however; I don't care for games that can be completed in just a few hours, that really limits the re-playability.

Nearly all of the levels here are full immersion, meaning you can go up, down, left, right, EVERYWHERE. At the time, this was quite amazing. These days that's the norm, I suppose. There are still a couple levels though that harken back to the Sega Genesis days, that are flat and side-panning. It was a nice reminder of the old days, I thought.

The only major negative I found in this game is the echolocation maps. Ecco, like all dolphins, has the ability to send out sound waves to "see" the surrounding terrain as well as its inhabitants. Unlike in the first two games, this sound map does not show fish or, if I remember correctly, air pockets (when you're down in a cave). It only shows the curve of the land, if any is in the level, as well as sharks and dolphins. It also shows what looks like a little flashlight, which always points toward you; this is the exit from the level.

WOW, so beautiful!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is probably the MOST beautiful game I've ever played on a console system and beats out a huge majority of PC games I've seen, too. You play as Ecco, a dolphin, and I must say, the underwater environments look fantastic and absolutely photo-realistic. It's one thing to have a photorealistic room full of bad guys to shoot up, but to have a photorealistic ocean, with the currents and ripple effects and corals and waterfalls and sunlight is just breath-taking on a whole new order. The animal models look stunning. You totally believe that Ecco is a real dolphin - that's how good the graphics are. I personally like the jellyfish, too - some are colorful while some are glossamer-transparent, really pretty (just don't bump into them!). This is one of those games you can play just to enjoy the environment. The music, which is calm and relaxing, perfectly supplements the visuals. I think this is a game the whole family can enjoy but I do have to point out one thing. It's pretty difficult! The way-out-there difficulty level may frustrate a lot of players...until they figure out that experiencing this superb game is probably more rewarding than beating the game.

I feel the same way about Space Channel 5, another Dreamcast game that is MUCH easier but has a groovy, danceable rhythm that makes it just as much fun to watch and experience as it is to finally beat it. Anyhow, buy/rent Ecco if you can! Dreamcast may be no more, but this masterpiece title alone shows just how beautiful a Dreamcast game could be!

the best game on the dreamcast

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: August 20, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I just bought this game and it is so fun you are a dolphin who is chosen to save the world. this game is so cool my parents take time off just to watch me play. the graphics are great, music is great, controls are great what else can i say spend your money on this game and this game only

Ecco the "no fun" Dolphin

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: September 17, 2000
Author: Amazon User

At this very moment I am suffering from a terrible headache. I usually endure this type of pain when I am stressed out at work or when I encounter a stress enducing videogame. Yep, you guessed it, playing this game has steered me straight to my medicine cabinet. Let me begin by warning fun oriented gamers to avoid this nerve grating game at all cost. It is a hideously executed game filled with arduous task after task after task. I feel I'm being punished each time I play this game. With Ecco, the only thing that matters is the stunningly gorgeous environments. Of course, this is inadequate. Where's the fun of completing a long task or the reward of enduring a difficult challenge? If you want to punish a child for a misdeed, force him to play this awful game. For those of you brave enough to withstand Ecco, I advise you to buy a hint book, otherwise DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME WITH THIS ONE.

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