December, 2002
Right now I'm going to talk about some of the games that made the console great. Some of the games that will go down, in my opinion, as classics.
Sonic Adventure (Sega) - Arguably the best game on the Dreamcast. Definitely the best game in the Sonic series. In this game, you played as Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Amy, Big the Cat, and others (I think). Each character has their own part of the game. Big the Cat's was pretty annoying because it involved 5 or 6 stages of fishing for Big's friend, but that was a small part of the game. Overall, an excellent game, worthy of the low prce you can find it at now.
NFL2K (Sega) - The greatest football franchise of all time's grand debut! Yes, to this day, we see NFL2K3 kicking the holy shit out of Madden 2003, being superior in nearly every way, and this was the game that started it all. The only flaw there was in it was that the Rookie difficulty was way too fucking easy, and the Pro difficulty was way too fucking hard (something they have yet to fix). There was no happy medium. Also, the computer got extremely cheap on the Pro difficulty. Another problem yet to be fixed.
Soul Calibur (Namco) - Possibly the best fighting game on the Dreamcast, but then again, it didn't have a whole lot of competition in the 3D-Fighter arena. It had all of your favorite characters from Soul Blade (Most of them anyway), and some new ones. And, it had a cool little secret character, too: Yoshimitsu! He fit right in, being the only Tekken character with a weapon. The big flaw in this one was the endings: text and pictures. Whoopty-fucking-doo.
Dynamite Cop (Sega) - Everyone else in the world hated this game, because it was so shallow, and took about 45 minutes to beat (Which is a really retarded reason, I think), but I really loved it. I played it over and over again. But nothing could compare to the 2-player game. Great multiplayer beat em' up action that couldn't be topped.
Power Stone (Capcom) - The closest thing to a fully interactive fighting game so far. It's LIKE other fighting games, only you can throw shit at people! It's completely revolutionary! I jest, I jest. It was an excellent game, with a decent replay value. Mainly because the last boss was so fucking tough.
And that's not even all, there are so many other excellent games for the Dreamcast: Jet Grind Radio, Ready 2 Rumble Boxing, and Skies of Arcadia, just to name a few. If you haven't picked up a Dremcast yet, I strongly suggest you do so, since you can find one for $50 or less now, and they're still relatively easy to find.
