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Anyone Played The Video Game?

posted 16 years ago by evildan2
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Has anyone ever played the Universal Soldier video game that was released for the Sega Megadrive many moons ago? It was a game that I always wanted when I was younger, but could never find it anywhere. Now, some sixteen years later, I have finally gotten to play the game and I must say that it is simply one of the worst games I have ever played.

The game has little or no relation to the movie once you get beyond the title screen. You will soon know something is wrong once you are leading your mini-Van Damme sprite into battle against fire-breathing dragons. And just wait until you have to fight the game's recurring boss of a giant-sized Dolph Lundgren that thakes up half the screen! I couldn't believe what I was seeing. A quick internet search on the game however informed me that what this Universal Soldier game is just a rebranded version of a game called Turrican II. Numerous little changes were made to the game at the last minute to try and cash in on the Uni-Sol licence that the game's creators had acquired. This game simply has to be seen to be believed. It is also, without doubt, the single most difficult game I have ever played in my entire life. I defy anyone to complete it without using a cheat code. It does have some really great music though.

So, has anyone else played it?

"I want Tong Po! Give me Tong Po!"

[–] speed_2 16 years ago

no i havent played the game i always wanted to but i dont think it did very well and wasnt well recieved

[–] johnmorghen 16 years ago

I've never had the pleasure of playing the game, but based on that review, I absolutely have to track it down! Luc Devereaux fights fire-breathing dragons?! Where do I sign-up?! Perhaps, Bill Goldberg's performance in "Universal Soldier: The Return" was inspired by such villainy!

[–] At_The_Drive_In 16 years ago

This game is actually Turrican 2 (with differences) re-badged as Universal Soldier. This explains the weirdness and non relation to the movie.

[–] iamthehollow 15 years ago

Yeah Accolade thought it would be funny and cheap to hack the masterful Turrican 2 with this barely coherent mishmash of PD quality sprites, and then because of that we couldnt have Turrican 2 for the MD or SNES, still Super Turrican was a consolation, but its still not Turrican 2 which as I said is a glorious game.
I own the MD cart but I only own it to sneer at it from the other side of the room. Its got giant flying dolph in it!!!! Its sh*t.

[–] chillipalmer_10 15 years ago

i owned it when i was a kid, it was absolute crap lol !!!!

[–] avortac 11 years ago

Yes, I played it, and rage made my eyes figuratively red.

"This is a friggin' Turrican-rip-off!", was my first thought, after playing the game for mere seconds.

I couldn't believe it - someone took an iconic Amiga game, Turrican II, with the best music I have ever heard (as far as I can recall - at least the 7-channel intro music that halves the tempo at one point and yet retains the 'flow' in an ingenius way), and in any case, absolutely wonderful and inspired musics, sounds, graphics, animations, and copper effects and sub-pixel scrolling..

.. and reduced it into a cheap, ugly and unplayable piece of crap on the pretense of blatantly cashing in on a silly action movie (do other kinds also exist?)!

What a greedy and unreasonable, inhuman and cheap, lazy and exploitative thing to do! Anyone, who paid for that mess, is a clueless moron.