Yep, got the first one oout of the box, good stuff.
I'll be posting impressions later tonight, well, I'm off for now, the ladies of the beach are calling me :D
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Yep, got the first one oout of the box, good stuff.
I'll be posting impressions later tonight, well, I'm off for now, the ladies of the beach are calling me :D
Mine arrived today as well!
AM2 is fast becoming one of my fave Sega divisions.
This game's got the same accessible charm as Virtua Tennis, Soccer Slam, and Hot Shots Golf. Awesome stuff.
Excellent! Post some immpression if you can. I wanted to get this game, but wasted my money on other games instead. I hope to pick it up next month...
Ok, I've sat down and truly enjoyed the game that is, Beach Spikers.
If you wondering what/how this game plays, the best I can put it is imagine Virtua Tennis, but modify it to fit in with Volleyball, like instead of Lob and shoot, you now have Dig and Bump. The power guage is about the same, there's 2 different times a power guage appears, during a serve, and during a strike, which is nifty.
Gameplay is solid. I knew I wanted Beach Spikers because it was sega, but man oh man, this game can be summed up in one word "Rockage" I was hooked since minute one. This is one of those "Easy to learn, but oh so hard to master" kind of games, And what do you know, tutorial mode is actually VERY helpful, it teaches you how to shoot, bump, dig, block, attack, etc in 5 steps.
Serving is interesting, you have a Underhand, Overhand and Jumping serve, all via different button combinations and power guage combinations
Modes? Well there's arcade mode, which is, well, arcade mode ^_^ fun for a quick fix of Volleyball. World Tour mode is fun, yet frustrating. In World Tour mode, you and your CPU controlled oppoonent take on the world teams in a plethora of consumer based location (Pringles stage?!?). You have a set ammount of points to level up your helper so to speak, until you up their power and reaction time, their basically Mome(PSO)-like idiots who miss balls that come right to them, cannot volley the ball to you, or will volley it the wrong way, but thats part of the replay value I guess. In World Tour mode, you have this cooll feature called Edit mode, so if you dont care for the standard characters, here's where you can edit characters to your own standards, with tons of unlockable stuff (swimsuits, glasses, hairstyles, etc)
Many of the Sega development teams are mentioned in the credits when you beat arcade mode, and once you unlock some stuff, you'll realize why ;) (WOW, Sonic Team, Amusement Vision, United Game Artists, one I forget at the moment)
Verdict: Run, don't walk to you local retailer and demand a copy of Beach Spikers for GameCube :D
Oddities/things that pissed me off: In arcade mode you control both the Characters technically as you switch between characters, but the thing that bothered me is that in the middle of a play you will magically take control of the opposite player and miss the volley sometimes, I've grown used to it now, but it may bother some people right off the bat.
Any other questions are welcomed.
Have you tried any of the multiplayer options?
No, I'll try those out tonight :D
What's the dilly with the bomb in that Japanese trailer for the game, yo?
This one was released right under my nose! I'll be picking it up tomorrow, God willing.
Dis' what I'm talkin'bout, baybee!
Bomb? Japanese Trailer?
You must not have seen it...I guess I should go digging through archives for the thread...ah, CRAP!
It looks great to me. Thanks for the impressions guys.