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shockingly bad!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: June 26, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Oh man, where do I begin?! I picked this game up for $... thinking that I got a bargain, but I have since changed my mind. This game is so disappointing. It had so much going for it but just falls flat! Let me just bullet point this or this will take all day.

- horrible graphics that underutilize the Dreamcast
- BAD, i mean BAD, lighting. you can see the triangle patches on the ground. This can't be intentional...
- really low polygon count, I have seen much better N64/PS1 graphics than this. It does not take advantage of the Dreamcast.
- appalling frame rate. If I play my dreamcast, I expect 30 frame/second, at least. I have seem much more complicated graphics run 20 times faster (crazy taxi, soul calibur, jet grind radio). I know the Dreamcast is capable of it. This game from the intro sequence(!!) SLOWS down a LOT, and rendering what??!! I can count the polygons on screen!

Alright, substandard graphics is manageable, if the game has good presentation (example - the N64 Zelda - Ocarina of Time had low polygon count, but is a beautiful game because the developers made the most out of the resources - shapes, movement, textures, colors, game control).

This is perhaps the biggest problem with Slave Zero - Presentation:
- unconvincing explosions. mechs just kinda fall apart when they BLOW UP, or when you walk near a defeated mech.
- dark is good when used properly. This game, on the other hand, is just kinda dark. The mood was cool (dark metropolis feeling, giant mech walking) for about 5 minutes, and it just got lost in the clumsy enemies, bland background, and choppy graphics.
- the enemy shape is hard to make out, and the enemy just doesn't seem to do much (at least in the early levels, I have no interest in playing beyond level 2). They don't seem to get smarter, but just gets bigger weapons and more armor.
- no music? fine. how about some ambient sound? no? uh, ok.

- the game somehow just doesn't seem to care if the player is having fun or not. It just kinda moves along.

Are there anything good about this game? Yeah! That's what makes this game so painful to play! What a great concept - big robot walking around a city, battling other robots and stomping around. The concept of scale is awesome when I think about it (but this goes away when I see the game). The play control is manageable (if I can circle strafe, I am generally happy). Machine guns, plasma rifles, missile launchers. Hmm tasty. But between the choppy graphics, clumsy presentation, and the unshakable sense of sloppiness, all these things just stop mattering because I am too busy imagining a better game.

The worst games out there are ones that fill you with promise and then just pull the rug from under you, with poor elements of execution and presentation. Slave Zero seems to have no qualms about doing this. I don't understand the positive reviews on this game - I wish I can like this game (I bought it already), and I tried - but I can't.

The worst game ever, buy the PC version!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 8
Date: December 10, 1999
Author: Amazon User

The graphics are okay, but not great, not anything that you should do a backflip over atleast. slow animation sends this game into a world of bordom, and, even after dissapoint every one with the graphics and the slow game play, and the horrable control, you notice that the game isn't even fun! how horrable is that, leave this game on the shelf, and pick up power stone, it is much better.

Slave Zero is just that a "ZERO"

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 9
Date: November 24, 1999
Author: Amazon User

One of the many things that I don't like about the game is that you don't get to choose from any different characters. Then there is the problem that you only get one life, and if you die you have to repeat the game all over again. Overall, Sega should be paying me to play this game and not the other way around!

I was a big giant wobot!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: October 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

And I stomped on all the little people and then I picked them up and threw them against the wall and then I blew up the other wobots wiv my gun and then i blasted more baddies wiv my missiles and then .....
Makes you feel like you are 40 storeys high and has plenty of variety in the missions.

THis is a great game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: May 24, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Slave Zero is a pretty cool game. I thought the graphics were great and the story was fairly original. I admit that the multiplayer portion of the game is kind of weak. You can't see anything, but it is still really fun. Slave Zero is a great game, don't belive those other reviews.

Fun at a good price

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: August 02, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This has to be one of the funnest games that I have ever played for the Dreamcast. The graphics and sound are really good, and the game offeres unlimited replayability. This is a "must have" for anyone who wants to have a good set of Dreamcast games.

Cool Concept, needs work

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: January 20, 2000
Author: Amazon User

All-in-all, a cool game. My biggest problem was the complete lack of MUSIC! There was nothing to set any kind of mood, a decent techno soundtrack would have added a lot in my opinion.

Inded quait cool

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: February 28, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Its not like i have so muth to say it is a god game if you like genres like a mor free mecka worior 1,2,3 or maby hevy gear its defently inspaierd by manga (anime) and lots of fun.

Slave Zero

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: November 27, 1999
Author: Amazon User

I have played the game and to me despite all the other clames of it being "the worst game ever" i thought it was pretty fun to play. Since i am not a game maker I don't know half of the stuff the other people are talking about but I thought the game was pretty fun. The whole idea of running around and blowing stuff up in a big machine always does sound pretty fun and it is.

After playing it for a while, let me amend my review

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 26, 1999
Author: Amazon User

I wrote the first review way down at the bottom, and I don't know what I was thinking. I'd like to retract the review, as, after playing for a while, I'm actually having a pretty good time with the game.

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