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Finally, something other than an arcade game for Dreamcast! Something to really get your teeth into - a sprawling arcade adventure that'll hold your interest for more than 10 minutes. Shadow Man, you say? Nah! Raziel is much cooler. He's a dead vampire, see, and he's out for revenge, waving his reaver menacingly through the physical and spectral realms. Soul Reaver was well received when it finally hit PC and PlayStation last year. Its mix of brutal action and puzzle solving kept us busy for weeks, and the moody graphics and visual effects weren't to be sniffed at either, especially on PC. The Dreamcast version offers the best of both worlds - PC-quality graphics with the control and stability of a console game. Buy it, we say, and be quick about it!
Red Dog is a bit of a strange beast. It's very much like all those first-person shooters on PC, but you're in a heavily armoured car, and it works surprisingly well. The game is set in a future where an alien race has invaded Earth. Fortunately, you've got plenty of weapons at your disposal with which to send them packing. The control system feels a little fiddly at first, although the Challenge Missions will familiarise you in no time at all. You've got your basic machine guns, as well as secondary weapons, charge weapons and a rather nifty shield (hold down the button and direct the deflector with the analogue stick). However, Red Dog's real strength lies in its comprehensive multiplayer options - Deathmatch, Knockout, Bomb Tag, Suicide Bomb Tag, Stealth Assassin and Flag Runner - which should keep you and up to three chums busy for quite some time. It's the closest thing to GoldenEye on Dreamcast.
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