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A few more quick Dreamcast reviews:
Street Fighter Alpha 3: Now THIS is a goddamn fighting game. 2D Street Fighter goodness mixed with a Soul Calibur-esque quest mode and tons of extras. New fun that feels old-school.
Mr. Driller: About the same as every other Mr. Driller version that's ever existed -- in other words, addictive as hell and fast.
DreamSNES 0.94: A homebrew SNES emulator that's a port of PC zSNES. Lags unless you turn the sound off, so it's best used for RPGs. (Not that that's a bad thing. You can have Chrono Trigger, FF2, FF3, Lufia, Breath of Fire et al. all on one disc.)
Namco Museum: The games are classics, the controls are decent for the most part, but how lame is it that they put six games on the disc when they KNEW they wouldn't have a DC Volume Two?
Neo Golden Logres: low-rent pinball sim, three tables, lots of Japanese. So-so.
Metropolis Street Racer: Nifty racer, though difficult. Win races, earn Kudos by powersliding through turns, marvel at the purty graphics. It's no Gran Turismo, but I can't handle GT's ultrarealistic handling anyway.
Evolution - The World of Sacred Device: Garden-variety RPG.
Evil Dead - Hail to the King: A steaming turd, and I wish that it was otherwise. Nice FMV, horrific control scheme, zero balance in gameplay.
Nightmare Creatures 2: A slight bit better than Evil Dead, but still mindless. Psychotic with axe hacks up zombies, simplistic controls, Rob Zombie soundtrack. Should be better than it is.
Sword of the Berzerk - Guts' Rage: The best of the hack-and-slashers I've played lately. Big dude with bigger sword, crossbow and arm cannon goes nutzoid on mutated enemies, spilling enough blood to fill the Metrodome.
Zusar Vasar: Older Japanese game, kind of a neat concept. Robotic animals pull mechanical chariots in a race and YOU get to drive.
Sonic Adventure 1 & 2: Your first reaction to the word "Sonic" will probably describe your response to these games -- either you'll love them or you'll recoil in horror. Platformers are an acquired taste.
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