nkarafo
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The 3DO was the most powerful "cross-gen" console, it gave the CD32, 32X and Jaguar a run for their money... Games like Crash & Burn, Fifa Soccer, Need for Speed and Road Rush were on par with early PS1 games or better. And definitely better than the launch Saturn games... 3D textured graphics with decent frame rates since 1993. I don't doubt it could compete with the Saturn/PSX graphics wise, assuming the console co existed with them and it didn't fade away.
I'm going through some 1994 game magazines and i laugh at the notion that the Jaguar is more powerful, like many suggested back in the day, even in 1994, a year after both consoles were released. Maybe the Jaguar is a 2D powerhouse but it was shit at 3D, it could barely move some flat shaded polygons, let alone textured ones.
Also, check out the unlimited draw distance of the 3D graphics in Crash & Burn. I get the camera is pretty much on rails but the graphics are still fully 3D. Every other racing game later on would have pop-up on every 5th gen platform (except for Kart racers for some reason) but this game had unlimited draw distance in 1993, which is crazy to me.
Graphically speaking, this is probably the most overrated game ever. The 3D engine is barely more advanced than Wolfenstein 3D with it's orthogonal rooms and corridors. Also, unlike Wolf 3D, the view distance is short and the frame rate abysmal, around 10-15 fps or so. The only thing it had going for it was the high-res graphics and sprites. But DOOM on the same platform was far more advance technically, pushing a more "modern" engine. DOOM was also shit on 3DO, which would be a better game to compare in favor of the Jaguar VS 3DO, but the 3DO port was botched badly, it wasn't really the system's fault (the Saturn version was really bad as well for similar reasons).
I'm going through some 1994 game magazines and i laugh at the notion that the Jaguar is more powerful, like many suggested back in the day, even in 1994, a year after both consoles were released. Maybe the Jaguar is a 2D powerhouse but it was shit at 3D, it could barely move some flat shaded polygons, let alone textured ones.
Also, check out the unlimited draw distance of the 3D graphics in Crash & Burn. I get the camera is pretty much on rails but the graphics are still fully 3D. Every other racing game later on would have pop-up on every 5th gen platform (except for Kart racers for some reason) but this game had unlimited draw distance in 1993, which is crazy to me.
Having said that, I never saw anything like AvP on 3DO.
Graphically speaking, this is probably the most overrated game ever. The 3D engine is barely more advanced than Wolfenstein 3D with it's orthogonal rooms and corridors. Also, unlike Wolf 3D, the view distance is short and the frame rate abysmal, around 10-15 fps or so. The only thing it had going for it was the high-res graphics and sprites. But DOOM on the same platform was far more advance technically, pushing a more "modern" engine. DOOM was also shit on 3DO, which would be a better game to compare in favor of the Jaguar VS 3DO, but the 3DO port was botched badly, it wasn't really the system's fault (the Saturn version was really bad as well for similar reasons).
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