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A New Power Stone That Dishes Out Pure Mayem

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 26 / 27
Date: August 05, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Four stars is pretty good when I rate a video game, but low and behold, this game is great. This series started off with the silent Power Stone which was a free roaming fighting game with interactive boards. This aint' no classical way to fight like 2D games like Street Fighter or Marvel vs. Capcom, this is the first of its kind, and its pretty [darn] good.

Everything I hated about Power Stone has been fixed and Iam pleased to say they did a bang up job. To start with the characters would be silly since the selection is sparse and is not relevant to the whole gaming experiance. This game soley relies on using your environment to your advantage. For example, there is a gun turret on the boat, to rid of your enemies best, hop on the turret and blast them out of the water. Fun and a great alternative to fighting. In the game, Capcom added a new feature wich allowed you to buy wepons and items in the Item Shop, just like Marvel vs. Capcom with Secret Factor. The levals have been touched up with a new twist, the environments change. Yes, hard to believe but if your boat is off course, there is a possibility that it can hit and iceberg and the boat could sink and you would be forced to climb onto the iceberg. This all happens and you are still fighting.

This sequal has new characters, new [changing] environments, four-player mayhem, and new wepons and items that will make this a worthy game to buy for fans of the original. For those of you who have never tried the orginal, give it a whirl. I have two knocks on this game, one is no network play and two is its confusing with four players. These knocks are minor and so small, it dosent affect the game. Check it out, this is one not to pass up.

Good, but doesnt resemble the first.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: August 15, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Basicly if u havnt played the first it was a 1v1 3d battle where u can kick, punch, hurtle chairs and tables and do just about everything you want. The reason its called powerstone was that there where 3 stones which would gradually apear as the fight went on. If a player got all 3 they could use speacial attacks at thier opponent. The first thing about Power Stone 2 (i dont write PS2 for a reason) is it supports 4 guys at once. If you think of a 3d super smash brothers you have a good idea how the fighting works, but you can still use whatevers lying around the level and any guns or weapons which apear. Finally even in the 4 player if you aquire 3 stones you get your special moves. As you can imagine the 4 player is a total mayham and gives players very little time to think what there doing. The team battle was a little more organized, but the only stradegy which works is to try to isolate 1 enemy and then double team him. The 3v1 and 2v1 modes where crazy. One pore guy get kicked around with no chance for victory. The game not only has these features but about 2 weeks after it comes out you can play online. About the levels and fighters there are plenty of diverse levels which all have unique aspects (in 1 you are sky diving and another theres a huge boulder roling around. There are also two new guys which i didnt recognize from power stone 1. Well overall it was about 4.6 out of 5 stars and anyone who likes alot of fighting will love this game.

Capcom's innovation continues

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: August 29, 2000
Author: Amazon User

There's a ton of great Dreamcast games worth owning.. here's another one. After Street Fighter 2, Capcom languished in unoriginality for quite some time, but it's clear the company has been experiencing a creative rebirth. Power Stone 2 pours on the innovation.

Basically its a 3-D game where you run your character around and try to beat up everybody else. The stages in this game are amazing and usually feature many hazards, like cliffs to throw your opponents off of and wild power-ups. Unlike traditional fighting games, this game is more about keeping an eye on the big picture of the battle and not letting your opponent get an advantage on you through the use of items or the stage itself. There are all sorts of wicked special effects (lots of ranged attacks), and some stages seem to stretch for miles as the battle rages into different areas.

With 4 players this game is tremendous fun, with most participants constantly yelling and screaming about what's going on, but there's even a lot of crazy stuff to do in the 1-player game, trying to unlock more secrets using an in-depth item system which I like a lot.

Totally Crazy!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: September 03, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is better than part one in some ways and part one is better than part two in some ways but the best part is the four player mayham. All the characters from part one are in Power Stone 2: Falcon, Wangtang, Galuda, Gunrock, Jack, Ryoma, Ayama, and that one lady. And they have extras like: Accel, Julia, Pete, Garmond. And the two secret characters: Pride, and Mel. And all new weapons like Gigantic Hammer, Unbrella, Spear, Beam Gun, 5-way Shotgun, Fireworks, and Magical Staffs. And you can put on New Cloths like Cat tail, Rabbit legs, Crown, and Straw hat. The bosses are bigger that Final Valgus from part one. I reccomend this game for the best.

powerstone2

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: September 20, 2000
Author: Amazon User

the game is a hole lot better then power stone one there are more people there are new bosses there are vechicles it is bazile.

An engrossing title

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 9 / 9
Date: October 05, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Say what you will about Capcom's sequal making past (Look! Street Fighter 2 Alpha Plus Omega Edition 16 Squared!), they got just about everything right with Power Stone 2.

Taking a cue from the possibly over-hyped Dead or Alive 2, Power Stone 2 brings level-interactivity in a fighting game to new heights. Using a 3/4 perspective view, one can do more than strafe around an enemy or hop over them. One can do A LOT more. Such as what, you ask? Well, how about hopping into gun turrets on submarines, before they submerge, and blasting away? Or how about uprooting a pole from the ground and making a home run with the nearest enemy? Anyway, a whole new level of interactivity.

Power Stone 2 also has something for the unlocking crowd out there- an item buying and mixing mode. By playing through the game in "adventure" mode, you accumulate items, which can be then sold at the item shop. More importantly, however, is the fact that you can mix them together, and create new, never-before-seen items! You could do this for days! Weeks!

Dishing out the damage against three opponents is entertaining, and leads to some good strategy in what is otherwise a very simplistic combat engine. And it's a good thing that the combat is simple- sometimes it's hard enough just trying to figure out where your damn character is after they've been swatted with a tennis racquet.

And that is my only real problem with the game- sometimes it's hard to figure out what the heck is going on. Well, that and the occasional cheap shot from one of the bosses. Certainly nothing to cry about.

However, with entertaining characters, great gameplay, and an item costing 20,000,000 credits,which you will NEVER have, this game will stay in the Dreamcast for a long time. Certainly a great purchase.

Simple Yet Fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 10, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Power Stone 2 is pretty awesome! The graphics look just like the arcade! It's like Super Smash Brothers in 3D. The only thing I hate is it's lack of figting system depth. However you won't have time to notice when your playing with 3 other people!

What can I say?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: November 13, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Did you like Power Stone? You will be blown away by this. Did you dislike Power Stone? You will like this. Had you never heard of Power Stone? This will change your world view of fighting games. The frantic action is a mix of just about everything from Virtua Fighter through Super Smash Brothers through to just about any Japanese anime you care to name. My younger brother and his Smash-Brothers-obsessed friends chanced upon Power Stone 2 the day I bought it: if they hadn't gone away to school camp, they'd still be playing it right now. This means I now, finally, get the chance to play it as obsessively as they did. 'Nuff said.

If You Liked Power Stone...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 29, 2000
Author: Amazon User

If you liked Power Stone (or your kids did) this is a game you will want to add to your library. You'll like the new, sometimes bizarre weapons which add a slightly demented but fun quality to the experience. It's bazile. Get it.

Wow...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: December 28, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is pure fun. I bought my Dreamcast a couple of weeks ago, and this was the very first game I played which gave me a great impression of what the Dreamcast can do. If you played the original Power Stone, you should know what the basic idea is. If you didn't play the original, well, you really haven't played an intense, chaotic game. Power Stone 2 is a pure free for all fighting action. You can pick up anything, use anything, do whatever you want, plus, the first to get 3 powerstones morphs into a special figure with incredible attacks, only for a short period of time though. So here you are, trying to KO your oppenent but yet trying to get 3 powerstones to change. What makes this so different from PowerStone? Nearly everything. Now up to 4 players can compete in a massive arena, with obstacles to overcome. What kind of obstacles? How about taking a machine gun and blasting your oppenet of a flying aircraft? Or how about jumping in a helicopter and dropping bombs on your oppenents who are on sumbmarines that just crashed into an iceberg? Or even hopping on a skateboard to out run a giant rock rolling towards to smash you into smithereins? Or how about just takin a meatl pipe or a basball bat and just whackin your oppenets with it now till next never? Yes, it's all here. I was a big Smash brothers fan, till now. This game is just everlasting fun.

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