Dreamcast launched 15 years ago today.

[bash]

Virtua Striker 2 was diabolical. You didn't even have full control of your players.
Utterly ridiculous to suggest it was better than any PES game of the time.

I have to agree with this, the lack of control and action was frustrating. At a time when PES was going from strength to strength, jumping from ps1 to ps2. I always felt vs2 was a pure arcade game designed to pumps money outta you. It got exposed at home IMHO. Unless you fans can convince me of some undiscovered levels of depth I failed to grasp?

[doodledude]

I wouldn't compare them to the sim games myself. But I just loved the look, fun and feel of playing them and the pure arcadeyness of it.

I have to agree with this, the lack of control and action was frustrating. At a time when PES was going from strength to strength, jumping from ps1 to ps2. I always felt vs2 was a pure arcade game designed to pumps money outta you. It got exposed at home IMHO. Unless you fans can convince me of some undiscovered levels of depth I failed to grasp?

[Asura]

Yeah, there are those among us for whom we prefer our football and ice hockey games to be a slightly more involved version of Pinball.

I guess Pro Evo is Virtua Fighter and Virtua Striker 2 is Smash Bros.

[dave heats]

Virtua Striker 2 was diabolical. You didn't even have full control of your players.
Utterly ridiculous to suggest it was better than any PES game of the time.

I have to agree with this. This thread sent me on a huge nostalgia YouTube dreamcast gameplay video smash, and watching some Virtua Striker gameplay reminded me what an absolute state of a game it was to play. Always felt like you could only run on rails, ball never felt under your control, and the animation was shocking even back then.

I distinctly remember the official DC magazine, and DC-UK blindly arguing we didn't need FIFA or PES, as we had VS.... Christ....

[nakamura]

There are a couple of half decent arcade football games on DC. SWWS Euro Edition is really fun. Bit pinball like, very accessible too.

[dataDave]

Virtua Striker 2 has had some of the most intense games of footy going on between me and my mates, besides Winning Eleven 8.

FIFA is just bumballs.

[nakamura]

Fifa was bumballs back then, no doubt. Virtua Striker 2 is still terrible no matter how many of you bang on about it. It fails fundamentally as a videogame. You have so little direct control. I would go as far as to say it's one of the worst games I have ever played.

[parkinho]

I guess Pro Evo is Virtua Fighter and Virtua Striker 2 is Smash Bros.

Precisely! Virtua Striker 2 v2000.1 is superior in every way.
Well done son, your place in the Virtua Striker 2 v2000.1 appreciation society is confirmed

[Kit]

Parkinho, I do like your profile pic as it reminds me of hunting down games in dreamcast bins after its demise, but you are mad if you think it's a good game. Yeh it looked incredible at the time but it was a cluster**** of chance playing - no skill just mad luck.

[parkinho]

I cannot believe it is just me, Eddie and Asura who love this game! Two things to consider for the naysayers;
1. Where else can you find Carlos Valderrama's perm so perfectly recreated?
2. Where else can you hear the crowd belt out a passionate rendition of the iconic football chant 'potato, potato, potato'?

I rest my case.

[Team Andromeda]

Really was the golden age of sega development. So many fantastic in house titles in a relative short console life. Loved that console. Just can't believe it's been 15 years already, I remember the launch so sell.

I would say that would be the Saturn - when SOJ was at their height of console development .

Precisely! Virtua Striker 2 v2000.1 is superior in every way

Virtual Striker was a arcade game and it played as such and I loved it - At the time it was handdown not only one of the best looking games but also the best looking Football game ever made . I wouldn't even begin to class it as the best footy game around at the time though . For me you could forget Pro Evo or Fifa and the like the best footy game made for the PS2/DC gen would be This Is Football 2002/3

[Stoppy2000]

Haven't logged in here for ages but just wanted to state that Virtual Striker is indeed an abomination of a football game. Bloody awful.

[dvdx2]

Remember importing my Jpn DC in late 98 from, next-gen.

Happy days......

[Howiee]

I pre-orderd mine from Woolies and got a free inflatable chair.

[huxley]

I was late to the DC party, If it wasn't for a friend who showed me PSOv2 I would never have taken the plunge. I`m glad I did.
I loooooved PSO. I sunk 100s of hours into it.