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The Best Dreamcast Games… EVER! Well, we have over 40 reviews on DCS so far! Quite an achievement for a site that has only been open for about half a year with a small crew of guys! In a tribute to this fact, and also to the great games the Dreamcast has, we have decided to give you a run down of the best Dreamcast games so far! There are 4 categories… and here is the first one!! The Top 20 Dreamcast Games by Review Score
1)
Daytona USA 2001
- Another classic Driving title hits the
Dreamcast as if anyone thought it would be possible to top MSR and F355,
certainly looks like Daytona managed it!
2)
Shenmue
- "It's
not an RPG, it's not an interactive movie"! Shenmue is the start of
an entire new genre "Full Reactive Eyes Entertainment" or FREE
for short. Now that the consoles have the power, I'm sure we'll be seeing
more games in the FREE genre soon enough, starting with Shenmue 2 and then
the hot looking Head Hunter looks set to continue the trend!
fantastic,
but sadly surpassed graphically by the likes of F355. But
the graphics weren't the only thing MSR had to boast, it's huge highly
detailed city settings and Kudos system gave it an air of independence,
and breath of fresh air from what was becoming a stale and stagnant racing
genre! 4)
Soul Calibur
- Do beat 'em
ups come any better than this? Well if anyone thinks so, the PlayStation 2
certainly hasn't come up with the goods (but that currently seems to be
the case with everything to do with PS2!) crisp clear graphics, fast,
slick fighting action, and the ability to fight with the fishing rod make
this game a must for all gamers! Even people who aren't normally fans of
the genre! 5)
Resident Evil CODE: Veronica -
The
"official" sequel to Resident Evil 2 carries the story on in
Style! Claire heads off to Europe to find her brother Chris only to find
that the evil umbrella corporation have also decided to come to Europe, only, for more destructive purposes! Takes the Resident Evil series into full 3D, and adds an extra dimension of depth making this another DC must have! 6)
Jet Set Radio 7)
Dead or Alive 2 8)
Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike 9)
Crazy Taxi 10)
Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 11)
Ferrari F355 Challenge 12)
Resident Evil 3: Nemesis 13)
Guilty Gear X 14)
Samba de Amigo Version 2000 15)
Grandia 2 16)
Quake 3: Arena 17)
Power Stone 18)
Hidden and Dangerous 19)
The Nomad Soul 20)
ChuChu Rocket! Okay
then… there you have the top 20 by review! Next up is a list of 20 games
that we deemed to be the best 20 games so far (not in order). After this,
we put them in order of personal favourites and then our overall top 20,
which is, to us at least, the definitive list! Space
Channel 5 Daytona
USA 2001 Soul
Calibur Virtua
Tennis
Resident
Evil CODE: Veronica Crazy
Taxi Power
Stone Power
Stone 2 Toy
Commander Dead
or Alive 2 F355
Challenge Jet
Set Radio Quake
3: Arena Phantasy
Star Online MSR
Shenmue
Skies
of Arcadia Grandia
2 Sonic
Adventure Rayman 2 Andy’s Top 20 Dreamcast Games 1) Phantasy
Star Online – Its just amazing!
Sonic Team truly excelled in creating this online masterpiece. It’s much
more than an RPG… it’s a revelation in online gaming! Clear, crisp and
simply superb graphics accompany the solid gameplay to make this another
first from SEGA! 2)
Skies of
Arcadia – An RPG that we Dreamcast
owners have been crying out for since the launch of the console! Finally,
SEGA have granted us our wish of our very own killer RPG by giving us
Overworks’ masterpiece, Skies of Arcadia. Fly through the skies
searching for new discoveries and fighting the good fight. One fantastic
gaming experience! 3)
Space
Channel 5 – SEGA is famous for
their original games. That reputation seems to be well earned, with games
such as Space Channel 5 around! A dance ‘em up like no other, you play
Ulala, the sexy space reporter who must put her dancing and shooting
skills to the test in order to get to the bottom of a mystery involving
aliens who force people to dance! Crazy, but so very, very fun! 4)
Soul
Calibur – Fighting games don’t
come much better than this! One of the best games on the DC, period. For a
first-generation Dreamcast title, it has awesome graphics! The gameplay is
there in force, and the lifespan is huge due to the countless missions and
modes. So much to do… all neatly compacted into one GD-ROM. Nice. 5)
Resident
Evil CODE: Veronica – The fourth
game in the Resident Evil series, and actually the best. Using the
Dreamcasts’ superior graphics capabilities, Capcom have produced an
amazing setting for the scariest game on SEGA’s console.
A must have game for any DC owner, let alone RE fan! 6)
Jet Set Radio 7)
Grandia 2 8)
Shenmue 9)
Power Stone 2 10)
Dead
or Alive 2 11)
Sonic
Adventure 12)
Crazy
Taxi 13)
Daytona
USA 2001 14)
Power
Stone 15)
MSR 16)
Virtua
Tennis 17)
F355 18)
Quake
3: Arena 19)
Rayman 2 20) Toy Commander Mike’s Top 20
Dreamcast Games
1)
Daytona USA 2001
- The classic arcade racer returns to
Dreamcast, and is even better than before! With a graphical make over and
new tracks, we have the classic racer of the 90's back for the...um,
naughties! 2)
Ferrari F355 Challenge -
Beautiful car, beautiful game, the most realistic driving game or
"simulator" ever created heads home on the Dreamcast, in all
it's 4 NAOMI powered beauty! 3)
Sonic Adventure -
After his refreshing break from a fully
new adventure on the
5)
Shenmue
- Welcome to a living, breathing world,
contained on 3 GD ROMS, Shenmue one of the deepest involving games ever
made and an excellent excuse to fork out £99.99 on a Dreamcast! 6)
Quake 3 7)
Toy Commander 8)
Crazy Taxi 9)
Rayman 2 10)
MSR 11)
Phantasy Star Online 12)
Jet Set Radio 13)
Power Stone 14)
Power Stone 2 15)
Soul Calibur 16)
Dead or Alive 2 17)
Resident Evil CODE: Veronica 18)
Skies of Arcadia 19)
Grandia 2 20)
Space Channel 5 Top
20 Dreamcast Games – Our Definitive List!
2)
Shenmue –
Second place goes to Yu Suzuki’s baby – the fantastic Shenmue! Over
four years in the making and with a budget extending into the tens of
millions, this game proved to us that reality could actually be fun! 3)
Daytona USA 2001
– A racing game worthy of the DC? You betcha! Ahead of the pack in every
way! A classic brought up-to-date in one badass arcade conversion! 4)
Sonic Adventure
– The speedy blue hedgehog returned to form as a DC launch game and is
still firmly in the top 10 of the Dreamcast charts after over a year! It
must be some game to hold on that long… and it certainly is! A
platformer to cherish forever!
6)
F355 7)
SC 8)
Skies of Arcadia 9)
Crazy Taxi 10)
Virtua Tennis 11)
Resident Evil CODE: Veronica 12)
SC5 13)
Power Stone 2 14)
Quake 3: Arena 15)
MSR 16)
Grandia 2 17)
DOA2 18)
Toy Commander 19)
Power Stone 20)
Rayman 2 So, there you have it! Those were the best Dreamcast games! Also, if our lists here further intrigue you, check out our reviews page! Now, go and get playing! I’m sure you own at least one of the games shown in these here charts we have shown you! If not, then there’s obviously something wrong with you! GET OUT THERE AND BUY ONE!!! Andrew Dickinson, andy@dreamcastsource.co.uk and Michael Rogers, mike@dreamcastsource.co.uk
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