Videogame Review, NFL 2K1 for the Sega Dreamcast
It says on the packaging NFL 2K1 is realistic. But after getting into this football game and being a witness of players without hands and feet at various camera angles, I’m beginning to think Sega got ahead of themselves. You’ll get some false statements on the screen which tell you someone is injured; in fact, you probably won’t know what team the guy gets injured in. And there’s actually a commercialized headline for Shenmue. Does anybody think the NFL cares about Shenmue? There also in real life wouldn’t be NFL headlines highlighting Dreamcast sports games in plain text without pictures. Just saying. Not to mention the season section on the game’s menu fails to put in honest, real-life football with the difficulty expected from watching college football on TV, let alone from a fanbase for NFL. Some players really are missing hands and feet in the game at various camera angles and I believe Sega in their Dreamcast era damaged the imaginations of videogame players in general. Well, except for critics who had the guts to criticize the Dreamcast console whatsoever on the right call. A rainy field off and on has inexplicable square images built into the atmosphere even if some guys near the quarterback are hunching down like immature babies. Look, Sega. You should’ve never told people this football game was “realistic” unless of course you meant it in a metaphorical sense. Because there is a lot of time we can put into this game without regarding much on reality at all. Our status screens, which give us overlays on player attributes and histories, become helpful on both manual and TV. Yet there’s still unreality floating here that Sega claims to be realistic. Lots of football fans are Christians, right? It says in the Bible that “the eye is the lamp of the body”. So, when you’re taking athletes without hands and feet at various camera angles and calling them “realistic” that’s bound to get some faithful people upset. When I create something that isn’t real, I tell people it isn’t real or, if I tell them it’s “real”, it’s in a figurative or metaphorical sense. My Dreamcast console is brand new off of eBay, too. The difference between me and Sega is that I’m appealing to creativity whereas the blue company is misrepresenting incompetent work. Fans of the Dreamcast have mistakenly approved of NFL 2K1: it’s chunky, it’s brittle, and it’s unreal at excessive levels. We need to be honest about graphics in a program. If there’s no hands or feet on a football player, there’s no hands or feet on a football player. NFL 2K1 wasn’t intended to be abstract art; it was intended to be real, of which we can see in this review that such intention was misleading and inaccurate. I might as well play Sarge’s Heroes!
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