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UEFA Striker is a far superior game to Sega WorldWide Soccer 2000, currently the only other football offering for Dreamcast. Well paced, it captures the gritty realism of professional football, where good clearances are often as important as great goals, while also encouraging you to try things - a little through pass here, a first time ball there... The controller system is solidly instinctive and encourages imaginative, varied play, and though goals are initially difficult to come by, a little match practice (and some time spent on the excellent coaching programme) soon sees you involved in classic encounters. Add to all this good graphics, decent commentary, 130 top European teams to play with - club and national - and all the usual options you'd demand of football sim and you have a quality title that is a must buy for football fans. Get in there.
Toy Commander is one of the three games that rarely leaves the office Dreamcast (the others being UEFA Striker and, of course, Soul Calibur). They all have something in common - great multiplayer action. Toy Commander has it in spades. Nothing could be more fun than flying toy planes (or driving toy tanks, jeeps, etc) around beautifully realised 3D environments, ducking between the legs of a walking cat to close in for the kill. It's all toys, you see, and the levels are rooms in your parents' house. The only (minor) disappointment lies in the single-player game - it's hard as nails. Persevere, however, and you'll be rewarded with a vast and varied experience, sprinkled with some truly inspired moments. The Godzilla homage is of particular note. But Toy Commander really comes into its own as a four-player blast fest, and it should do for the Dreamcast what GoldenEye did for the N64... almost. An essential buy.
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