Was anyone here genuinely fooled by the Rise of the Robots hype?

[kyletherobot]

My brother and I had a copy on Mega Drive and hated it, we managed to con the kid next door into swapping it for his copy of Sonic 2 but he wasn't happy with the deal after he played it and we had to swap back

[Phantoon]

On 24/12/2022 at 21:40, Unofficial Who said:

I'm still amazed that Rise 2:Resurrection was released. I have no idea how it plays but who'd risk it after the first game?

 

 

Especially when other games had entered the field like the decent (at the time) Zero Divide.

 

 

Oh....I remember it looking better than this. This has not dated well....

I believe Rise 2 was a lot better than the first. Admittedly it'd struggle to be much worse.

[Festoon]

Whatever about Rise Of The Robots, was anyone fooled by Microcosm?

 

 

[phillv85]

I think I have that on both Mega CD and CD32 but have never played it, guessing it’s regarded as a stinker?

[Unofficial Who]

I knew someone who was fooled and so got to borrow the CD32 version.

 

Weird thing, the demo on CD32 gamer had full screen video cut scenes. The full game? Quarter screen cutscenes. I assume for reasons of disc space.

[Anne Summers]

I seem to remember that the reason Rise 2 plays ok is that it's basically a Mortal Kombat rip-off, just with robot sprites and no gore (obviously). I only played a coverdisk demo but that was the impression I got.  

[Protocol Penguin]

19 hours ago, Festoon said:

Whatever about Rise Of The Robots, was anyone fooled by Microcosm?

 

 

Nah, I was too cynical by then. Still remember the Amiga Format review, openly stating that it doesn’t play great, but at least its graphics shows off the CD32 and will make people want to buy one – seriously.

 

(That particular publication re-reviewed the game a few years later and actually gave it an accurate and honest review.)

[Festoon]

34 minutes ago, Protocol Penguin said:

Nah, I was too cynical by then. Still remember the Amiga Format review, blatantly just saying it doesn’t play great but at least it shows off the CD32 and will make people want to buy one (seriously).

 

Amiga Format, the living spirit of compromised press for The Greater Good.

 

And, of course, this:

[Anne Summers]

3 hours ago, Festoon said:

 

Amiga Format, the living spirit of compromised press for The Greater Good.

 

And, of course, this:

Haha, I had that issue. I remember ther was a grovelling apology in the next issue. It was also the reason that years later when I worked in newspapers I made sure I never used anything as placeholder text that could cause a problem if it ended up being printed. 

[Festoon]

20 minutes ago, Anne Summers said:

Haha, I had that issue. I remember ther was a grovelling apology in the next issue. It was also the reason that years later when I worked in newspapers I made sure I never used anything as placeholder text that could cause a problem if it ended up being printed. 

 

It was an apology with a 'cut out and stick over' section wasn't it?

[Anne Summers]

6 minutes ago, Festoon said:

 

It was an apology with a 'cut out and stick over' section wasn't it?

Yes, think so!

[merrychan]

On 14/01/2023 at 19:26, Festoon said:

Whatever about Rise Of The Robots, was anyone fooled by Microcosm?

 

 

Absolutely!

 

That big box version looking at me in the Virgin Megastore back in the day was irresistible

 

True story : I later worked with a programmer who starred in the intro cutscene

 

[Rex Grossman]

1 hour ago, Anne Summers said:

Haha, I had that issue. I remember ther was a grovelling apology in the next issue. It was also the reason that years later when I worked in newspapers I made sure I never used anything as placeholder text that could cause a problem if it ended up being printed. 

 

It’s one of the golden rules. Anyone who does it deserves to get caught out.