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Ballz 3D: Fighting at Its Ballziest
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| Reviewer: Ovi | Date: Jun 16, 2005 |
| I played Ballz 3-D all the time when I was a kid on my Sega Genesis. Basically, Ballz is a fighting game with characters made of a bunch of colorful, floating balls. You can play as a bunch of different wacky characters with somewhat hillarious attacks, including a clown and a ballerina. It is fun to play and I especially enjoy one-player mode for the special boss characters that you have to fight, and after beating them you get a higher-rank karate belt and your character's colour changes. The SNES version, I haven't played it a whole lot, but it seems a little different than the Genesis version, so I'll try to be fair.
Graphics: 8 The graphics aren't necessarily spectacular, but for a bunch of three-dimensional balls they flow quite nicely on the SNES. When you defeat your enemy, it's awesome watching them burst apart in an explosion of balls! Different pictures pop up in the back of the arena while you fight, to go along with the continual razzing your archenemy gives you, and they look kinda neat, match the whole mood of the game. I will give it another look, but I actually think that the Genesis version had slightly clearer graphics, but I doubt it makes a huge difference. Sound: 7 The music and sounds, like the graphics style, goes well with the game's mood, but it isn't spectacular or anything. The tunes are pretty catchy when they don't get aggravating, and it really helps add to the whole "taunting" feeling the enemies give you. I doubt you'll be able to forget the game's theme music, cuz it is so bizarre. :-P Gameplay: 8 The game is very fun to play, but a lot of stuff will bother you about the controls. Like a Street Fighter game, you gotta press a bunch of buttons and stuff to pull off a lot of the cooler attacks, and your enemy is there doing all of this neat stuff that it would take you a while to figure out. But don't let that discourage you, the gameplay is quite nice and you'll enjoy burying your enemy to their neck like a golf ball and smacking them far away or draining their health like a vampire. One thing that might bother you is the camera, which changes every time you walk around, or the enemies that beg and regenerate their health. Just enjoy the game's oddities for pete's sake. Overall: 8 Ballz 3-D is a very fun fighting game that deserves a look. It may not change your life forever, but it makes a unique fighting game with strange pop-culture thrown into it. This game has additude, and lots of it, and mixing that with the gameplay makes things interesting. A must for fighting game lovers as well as people who like strange games like me. Don't like the Super Nintendo version of Ballz 3-D? Then give the Sega Genesis version a try sometime and see if it makes a difference. |
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