I recently celebrated my 29th birthday, so in celebration, this essay – and it is an essay, before you start getting too comfortable – is one man’s ill-informed but highly personal exploration of the world of the shoot ‘em up. For the uninitiated, shoot ‘em ups, or ‘shmups’, are a sub-genre of games where the player is faced with a fairly [...]
SEGA Rally lives! After several years in the wilderness, following the release of SEGA Rally Revo back in 2007, the SEGA Rally franchise is back with SEGA Rally online arcade. I really liked SEGA Rally Revo, so I’m happy to see the SEGA Rally franchise live on despite the closure of the SEGA Racing Studio in 2008. Currently in development [...]
I almost need to review Sega Rally twice. Once with the standard 360 controller and once with the set-up that Sega provided us when we visited them in August.
Why? Well, playing Sega Rally whilst sitting in a Sparco racing seat, with force-feedback steering wheel (and pedals) I was in driving heaven. It's perfect. You can feel every bump as your car drives over all the track deformations and as it power slides around another lovely corner.
There I am in Canis Canem Edit/Bully, innocently defending myself against the bullies, preps and greasers at Bullworth Academy… I finally find myself a nice place to stay, kitted out with a bar, a bed and even arcade games. Fantastic! I fire up the game and I’m greeted with this gem of an instruction screen for Monkey Fling: Sadly, the [...]
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