Post by wafflerevolution on Sept 8, 2013 21:19:09 GMT
by Paully3433
Power Stone
Released: Japan Feb. 1999
North America September 1999
Europe October 1999
Consoles: Arcade & Sega Dreamcast
Publisher: Capcom
Ratings: Gamespot 7.6
Game Spy 9/10
Game Pro 4.5/5
IGN 8.7
Game Informer 8/10
Users: 1746 Users own Power Stone on GameSpot
Remember the phrase, "Welcome to Power Stone Wars? With the Dreamcast coming out with a high expectations, I personally didn't buy into it right away. But a friend did, thank goodness, and saved me the money of the launch price. He snagged one and of course got a few games with it. One of the games he got, was Power Stone. We all enjoyed this hidden gem of a game for quite awhile.
To start things off we can talk about gameplay. Power Stone is a 3D fighting game that lets you pick from a list of characters, each with their certain special tactics. Blocking isn't an option and only dodging can save you from a smack from one of the many things you can pick up, throw, kick or shoot. Each person starts with one stone to start the round.If you hit your opponent or you get hit, you will lose your stone and it will land on the screen somewhere.Whoever gets to it first,reclaims that stone. During battle, stones pop up over the arena, when a character snags all three, one red, one yellow, and the final blue, he changes form into a special type of your character. This will usually end the fighting for the other if he is below half health or so. You play best of three rounds and keep progressing until you fight a boss/bigger harder guy after a dozen or so fights.
The graphics and sound are both well done. All the fighters are very smooth and run with little to no flaws. The extras on the screen are also done quite well. Since you can grab and throw most things, they needed to look good, and they did that very well. I have heard gripes about the announcer voice, but I didn't mind it. He kind of added to the game with his urgency of getting the stones.
A sequel, Power Stone 2,was released on the Dreamcast in 2000 with a few new features and items to throw and shoot. Overall the game was released in a smaller quantity here in the US and still fetches a pretty good price on most sites. Also a remake of both games called Power Stone Collection was released in October of 2006. It updated graphics and the game for both to fit on the UMD to play on the PSP.
Power Stone
Released: Japan Feb. 1999
North America September 1999
Europe October 1999
Consoles: Arcade & Sega Dreamcast
Publisher: Capcom
Ratings: Gamespot 7.6
Game Spy 9/10
Game Pro 4.5/5
IGN 8.7
Game Informer 8/10
Users: 1746 Users own Power Stone on GameSpot
Remember the phrase, "Welcome to Power Stone Wars? With the Dreamcast coming out with a high expectations, I personally didn't buy into it right away. But a friend did, thank goodness, and saved me the money of the launch price. He snagged one and of course got a few games with it. One of the games he got, was Power Stone. We all enjoyed this hidden gem of a game for quite awhile.
To start things off we can talk about gameplay. Power Stone is a 3D fighting game that lets you pick from a list of characters, each with their certain special tactics. Blocking isn't an option and only dodging can save you from a smack from one of the many things you can pick up, throw, kick or shoot. Each person starts with one stone to start the round.If you hit your opponent or you get hit, you will lose your stone and it will land on the screen somewhere.Whoever gets to it first,reclaims that stone. During battle, stones pop up over the arena, when a character snags all three, one red, one yellow, and the final blue, he changes form into a special type of your character. This will usually end the fighting for the other if he is below half health or so. You play best of three rounds and keep progressing until you fight a boss/bigger harder guy after a dozen or so fights.
The graphics and sound are both well done. All the fighters are very smooth and run with little to no flaws. The extras on the screen are also done quite well. Since you can grab and throw most things, they needed to look good, and they did that very well. I have heard gripes about the announcer voice, but I didn't mind it. He kind of added to the game with his urgency of getting the stones.
A sequel, Power Stone 2,was released on the Dreamcast in 2000 with a few new features and items to throw and shoot. Overall the game was released in a smaller quantity here in the US and still fetches a pretty good price on most sites. Also a remake of both games called Power Stone Collection was released in October of 2006. It updated graphics and the game for both to fit on the UMD to play on the PSP.