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Don't Listen To These Reviews!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 14 / 16
Date: November 30, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This is a fantastic game. I am baffled at the reviews people are giving this game! First of all, I honestly didn't notice there was no in- game music untill i read about it. If there was any in- game music, id turn it off. youre to busy listening to directions to care about music. (this game has great voice acting, btw.) the sound effets are great, from the sound of the robots footsteps to all the explosions. the missions are long, and there are 13 of them. the control scheme is perfect. This game isn't too hard or too easy. Its very well balanced. You'll be playing to the end to see all the awsome weapons you get. As for the frame rate, I don't think its bad at all. I was never distracted by a low frame rate. the frame rate stays at 60fps with 1 or 2 enemies on the screen, any more then 2 and it goes to 30fps. but 30 fps isnt bad! the only time it might go under 30fps if there was a ton of explosions at the same time, but that never happened to me. as for the pc version being better, i didnt feel like spending hundreds of dollars to upgrade my pc so it would run good. and just so you know, im not one of those people who thinks EVERY game is fantastic. i did play through this game entirely. i have no reason to give it a higher or lower score then it deserves. my advice is to buy it.

Try Fun Zero, or Frame Rate Zero

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 24 / 35
Date: November 16, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Let the bad naming puns begin. This is without a doubt theworst game on the dreamcast. First of the all the designers tried tomap to many funtions onto the Dream Pad making the controlls awkward. But the biggest crime is the graphics. in the short life of the dreamcast we have already have some good games ported over from the PC with no drop in quality (Speed Devils for example was originally Speed Busters on the PC.) Well meet the exception to the rule. While the PC version features above average graphics (that the dreamcast could handle without a problem) the dreamcast version has some of the worst graphics on any system (psx, N64, DC). To make matters worse the frame rate hovers in the one to five frames per second range. It is difficult for me to beleive that someone with any programing skill could not get any game to run at any less than 30FPS on this system. Other things you will find missing from the pc: in game music? the developers say that the dreamcast hardware won't let them stream music or voices off the CD. I guess these guys figure no one has played Sonic Adventure at this point. END

Great Game! Low Replayability.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 10 / 10
Date: December 19, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Slave Zero is a great game to play -- its voice-overs from controllers and an Obi-Wan like mentor, combined with interscene cuts, make it highly cinemographic in its gameplay quality.

In general, the graphics are incredible, with a keen eye for detail ... rocket launches leave translucent, smokey contrails ... bullets hitting walls and buildings take out chunks of the buildings in puffs of dust, leaving bulletholes ... buildings and bridges pancake and collapse when you take them out ... cars and pedestrians fly by you, and go up in fireballs as you shoot them ... or are crunched underfoot as you smash them ...

However, there are several places where the "panning" seems buggy, and you may find yourself staring point-blank at a wall until you physically move. In other places, you may seem "stuck" as half of your body has somehow gotten wedged in a wall. The choppy animations that others refer are only in the cutscenes ... strangely, they are in some instances much choppier than the gameplay itself. However, all of these drawbacks are only minor irritants, and do not affect the gameplay substantially.

The biggest drawback of the game is the low playability value. Your robot configuration is mainly fixed at the beginning (jump jets, autocannon, missle launcher), and as far as I have seen, your upgrades are in basically the same categories. Moreover, the gameplay is highly _linear_, and there are basically no branches in the plot. Once you finish this game, there will be very little reason to replay it, since the gameplay will be virtually identical the next time around.

This is such a cool game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 11
Date: December 03, 1999
Author: Amazon User

I don't know what the problem is either with the really negative reviewers, but I've been following (and waiting for) this game for the past year+ and it's really good! I am very satisfied and look forward to playing through it a few more times.

The graphic style is dark and gritty and really stylistically cool, the main character Slave Zero is very well animated, as are the enemies and all the Slave Bosses, the city is like something out of Blade Runner or Judge Dredd, very realistic explosions and special effects, and it's cool watching all the cars and people swerve and run away from you. Plus, having all the buildings and bridges around you get destroyed while you're in a firefight with another giant robot is totally cool. The enemy robots dodge and swerve your attacks instead of just sitting there like most games.

The game controls just like you were playing Turok (or Quake), and ran just about as fast (I didn't notice any major choppiness... for those that claim the game gets down to 5 fps, i'd like to know how you got your machine to show that!).

The environmental sound effects are atmospheric and change from area to area... speaking of which, the game has a bunch of different areas as you move through the city and story so the art and enemies change also.

There are no other giant robot games out there like this one! Very unique, fast-paced action, fun!

I like the game. Recommended!

Slave Zero!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 15
Date: November 27, 1999
Author: Amazon User

It's 500 years in the future. Man and machine are virtually one and the greatest megacity in the world is locked in a brutal war. You are the ultimate saboteur and part of an elite fighting force. Your mission: Steal the largest, most sophisicated biomechanical attack weapon ever designed! 3rd person action at its BEST!

Let me tell yah all! Slave Zero on the ultimate Dreamcast "ROCKS!" Let me start off by saying that this game has to be the BEST designed mech game I have ever played. Good stuff: The graphics are gorgeous. The gameplay is the most rounded seen in a videogame. Cool fast mech action. Addictive multiplayer. Good sound effects.

Bad stuff: No online capabilities. When there is a lot of enemies the framerate slows down to about 30fps instead of standard 60fps inside of other dreamcast games. But there is so much action you hardly notice.

BOTTOM LINE : BUY IT! YOU'LL LOVE IT!

Awesome Mech Game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: December 08, 1999
Author: Amazon User

The things people say that are wrong don't seem to be there to me. There is no choppy animation. Everthing seems to run smoothly. The controls seem difficult at first but after 5 minutes of play you get it. It controls like Turok and Quake.If you are a mech fan and like blowing stuff up this is a definte bu

This game isn't that bad!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: May 19, 2000
Author: Amazon User

In fact it is quite fun. Yes, you are required to use every button on the DC controller but come on, there aren't that many buttons. Besides, once you do get the moves down, you have great control over your character.

The Graphics do look more like N64 graphics than DC graphics but they certainly aren't bad. In fact this game has no fog. You can look down a straight away and see a tiny dot in the distance. As you get closer, you begin to realize that that dot is actually another 60 foot tall robot. This ability to see great distances is very nice in a shooter game. In all the shooter games I've played in the past (Bond included) characters must be relatively close before you can even see them.

This game does lack in originality but what it lacks in originality it more than makes up for in explosive action. If you don't believe me, rent it sometime. I promise, you won't be as disappointed as some of these other reviews would lead you to believe.

Put this on your list of games to buy!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: December 06, 1999
Author: Amazon User

By far, one of the best action shooter games of the year. Awesome mech-warrior/cyborg designs, great graphics, and all-around good fun. Some camera angles can be confusing at times, but there's a simple way to solve that. Go into first-person view mode, cool huh? Plus 1-4 player action makes it an excellent family game.

get a different game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 01, 2000
Author: Amazon User

When I saw this in the store, I thought it looked like a pretty cool game. The graphics are pretty good but the gameplay is terrible. It takes way to long to load scenes and because of this, I just can't get into the game. About 10-20 minutes is all I can take. There are lots of other Dreamcast games out there that are better than this one.

Slave Zero,decent mech shooter

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 12, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Slave Zero while fun with explosive action, giant robots, and many destructive weapons and things to blow up has some flaws as far as graphics and sound. The gaphics are somewhat choppy and sometimes the sound efects sound cruddy even worse there is no in game music,but these are easily overlooked there's enough explosions to make you forget about the game music and great graphics aren't always needed to make a goog game.

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