Sports
Which sports do you feel work/don't work on your micro and why
Work:
Tennis
I think it's because you can see the whole playing area on the screen at once there's nowhere to hide, if your out of position not only can you see it but your opponent can to.
Don't work:
Boxing
While cartoon boxing's O.K. the fact that your dissapointed if you don't knock-out your opponent in the first round makes it all so very un-realistic
Cricket
Again Realism I want to hit every ball for 6
Work:
Tennis
I think it's because you can see the whole playing area on the screen at once there's nowhere to hide, if your out of position not only can you see it but your opponent can to.
Don't work:
Boxing
While cartoon boxing's O.K. the fact that your dissapointed if you don't knock-out your opponent in the first round makes it all so very un-realistic
Cricket
Again Realism I want to hit every ball for 6
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Plus you'll probably fall asleep at the computer playing the 'exciting' game of cricket ;)
That's the polite version of what I would've said about Cricket.
Wheras Barry McGuigans (No idea if I spelled that right, don't care really), aims at realism and kinda worked back then though. It has all the management crap, and be able to fight the opponent yourself...ness of a modern Boxing game.
The only thing different really with all these games is lesser opponent AI, and graphics. I defy you to tell me a modern boxing game improves on the principles of one of the Speccy boxing games.
Football...its a mile a minute, its unpredictable. Never been emulated properly for me. Strangely AM football does work..its so pedantic and predictable.
Ice Hockey..now I have played this sport..and generally computer versions are good..but its the net...its too small or too big, the posts like 2 pixels wide yet seemingly like 300 year old oak trees for hitting.
Motor racing...its simple...you fly off the road...or clip a wall....its generally all over...I'd like to see a version where you need to get your legs amptutated or something..they never figure that in...you crushed your feet...2miilion in surgeons bills.
Fight Night Round 3 because
a - You have to judge your footwork (as opposed to letting the speccy do it for you in BM's Boxing)
b - the parry and block system works brilliantly as it lets you cover up high and low or attempt to react to specific shots leading to excellent countering opportunities and means you have to pick your shots. you can also lean out of the way of shots and it makes you feel like you've got pro skills as opposed to be being a bum.
c - intuitive controls for punching with varied shot selections leading to devastating combos and high-risk haymakers.
d - training sub-games as opposed to just saying 'roadwork for 16 weeks'.
What system is this for? sounds a bit good to be true.
Anyway I'm just glad you didn't say something like "Legend of Success Joe", or "Final Blow", or even worse (The Modern version of) "Rocky".
360, PS2 and I think the old Xbox as well. I'm pretty sure there is a psp version but i'd avoid that one...
is a great game.
Doesn't work well: Ten Pin bowling. Simulated bowling is never going to be great fun, aside from in Super Monkey Ball or whatever it is, but that's on the Gamecube and not on a simple ZX Spectrum. 10th Frame was rubbish as there was always a way of guaranteeing a strike.
So well in fact that most modern Golf games still use the Leaderboard swing-o-meter