![]() Give it time and you'll see the error of your ways - mark my words, young Jedi. To successfully navigate the more hideous turns, it is imperitive that you know how to drift the cars without spinning out and unless you can do it, you'll probably think Daytona is an unplayable, difficult and ultimatley shite game. Daytona, believe it or not, is a game in which braking is essential - if you don't, you'll be seeing that comedy car flip more times than is healthy. The generic Hornet car (let's be honest - it's the one we all use, all the time) bobs about under the strain of the engine like it's got a see-saw underneath it and cornering can be a nightmare unless you get a feel for the way the game wants you to play it. You can tweak vehicle set ups in Daytona 2001, but in truth it doesn't really make much of a difference to the car's classification: some are fast with shit cornering, some are slow with good cornering. By gameplay, I primarily mean how the cars handle, but will also wax lyrical about the other aspects of the way it plays. So, pretty good then.ĭaytona is one of those games you'll either love or hate when it comes down to gameplay. Individual character's personalities can be picked up through how they speak and emotion is well conveyed through the dialogue. The voice acting of the NPCs (and Ryo, for that matter) can be a bit grating in places (especially that cretin Tom at the burger bar, with his faux Jamaican twang), but lets look at the bigger picture - it's head and shoulders above most games in this genre. There are some areas that are marked out by their music (for example, I know for a fact that everyone reading this who has played Shenmue for any length of time will remember the music in Ryo's hous e and garden - that sort of drummy, slow melody). Again, you don't really notice it while you're playing, but the little incidentals that chime in, and the atmosphere building crescendos during cut scenes should be applauded. You can see this in the graphics - and the sound is no different. Shenmue is a game that has had hundreds, maybe thousands of man hours poured into it. One nice extra I noted is the way you can now hear the crowd as you whizz past the grandstand corner on 777 Speedway, which is nic e, but overall Daytona is pretty average in the speaker/ear collaboration department. Elsewhere, sound effects are pretty much by the numbers - the odd throaty engine growl here, the odd tire screech there - all perfectly acceptable, but hardly amazing. They're nowhere near as offensive as the original choons, but still, not really up to scratch - and what happened to the top notch menu music from CCE?! Oh well. Daytona 2001 isn't quite as bad, you'll be pleased to hear, although the soundtrack is made up of remixes. That is probably a lie, more than likely concocted by me - but who can forget "Blue, blue skies." AAAAARGH! It's worse than Eurovision. Bit drastic, I know - but apparently he'd lost his TV remote and couldn't turn it down. ![]() It ain't perfect (some slowdown and the way shadows don't fall on snow(odd)), but it's still an exceptionally good looking title.ĭaytona on the Saturn featured music so cringeworthy that it is said one unhappy punter stabbed knitting needles through his own ear drums just so he could play it without breaking down in tears. And then there are the little things you don't notice at first, like the proper shadows and the real time lighting. Don't ask how I know - just take my word for it. Where Daytona jumps through the retinas with overbearing joyful garishness, Shenmue heaps on the atmosphere with a colour palette similar to the one used in the Grim Reaper's bedroom. And it's not just the things you interact with either - the actual environment looks so realistic due to the overbearing use of drab colours. Peoples faces, bikes, doors, kettles.even the inside of the freaking bus to the 's all immaculatley m odelled. Go into a shop and look at the shit on the shelves - it's all labelled up - no N64 style masses of colour here, guv'nor. ![]() Everything is modelled with such meticulous detail you have to wonder about the sanity of the developers. A totally different visual style to Daytona, Shenmue is again arguably one of the best looking games on the DC. ![]()
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