Just been reading the 3DO/Jaguar thread and soz for this quite anal thread but it got me thinking...
I remember getting Need For Speed on the Saturn back in '96 and found it pretty impressive because I thought it would be jerky shovelware, but on playing it, it seemed like EA took some time over it and it managed to be a good, solid Saturn conversion, pretty impressive. Yes, it handled like iron-coated bricks, but it still had a nice, 'panoramic', real-life feeling, which many racers lacked at that time. I played it for hours on Saturday nights with Jeru's 'Wrath Of The Math' on in the background.
The 3DO version seems to be held up as the best version (possibly because it was the first??), and the PS1 version seemed to be an 'obviously, duh' as the machine was commonly perceived as the bee's knees in terms of 3D output at the time.
Anyway, as this series has proved to be such a phenomenal success over the last decade and a bit, what are your experiences of the various versions, and what's the best one?
I remember getting Need For Speed on the Saturn back in '96 and found it pretty impressive because I thought it would be jerky shovelware, but on playing it, it seemed like EA took some time over it and it managed to be a good, solid Saturn conversion, pretty impressive. Yes, it handled like iron-coated bricks, but it still had a nice, 'panoramic', real-life feeling, which many racers lacked at that time. I played it for hours on Saturday nights with Jeru's 'Wrath Of The Math' on in the background.
The 3DO version seems to be held up as the best version (possibly because it was the first??), and the PS1 version seemed to be an 'obviously, duh' as the machine was commonly perceived as the bee's knees in terms of 3D output at the time.
Anyway, as this series has proved to be such a phenomenal success over the last decade and a bit, what are your experiences of the various versions, and what's the best one?
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