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Jaguar Cartridge Reviews:
Alien vs Predator
Breakout 2000
Brutal Sports Football
Bubsy
Checkered Flag
Club Drive
Cybermorph
Dino Dudes
Doom
Double Dragon
Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
Fight For Life
Flip Out
Hover Strike
I-War
Iron Soldier
Kasumi Ninja
Memory Track
Power Drive Rally
Raiden
Sensible Soccer
Skiing and Snowboarding

Jaguar Cartridge Reviews



Alien vs Predator


Summary- Aliens have taken over a human owned space station. Not just aliens, but the Aliens from the movies. The Predators have decided to join the frey, and that makes the basic idea of the game. You can play as the Alien, who is fast and deadly, the Human, who has a vast assortment of weapons and abilities, or the Predator, who can be invisible and has to earn his weapons. Playing the game as each character is like playing a whole new game!

Rating-
A great game with lots of replay value, but the somtimes low frame-rate brings it down a star. It can be really scary though!

Hints-Dont get to close to an Alien when it dies! Its acid will hurt you, and it stays on the ground. When you are the human, use ammo wisely, because there isnt much laying around!

Codes!-Cool ALL CHEAT code. Press PAUSE and OPTION at the same time anytime during gameplay and HOLD them down. Now press 1+3 and 2+5+7+9 while holding PAUSE and OPTION. You should hear a laugh. Now you can do the following during UNPAUSED gameplay:


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Breakout 2000


Summary- No Info except that this is an upgraded version of the original Breakout with multiple play modes. I do have codes though!

Rating-No rating yet.

Codes!-Enter one of these codes after the formation of the bricks, and before the ball is released:


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Brutal sports football


Summary- A football game based in the future, and where no rules apply. Kill opponents by beheading them in a variety of ways, and even kick their head around. Fast gameplay with lots of action, and some interesting options, including different modes of play.

Rating-
A good game with some minor flaws. Can be fun, but the fast moving screen and the slightly jumpy graphics can tire out your eyes. Some good fun, but not bound to realism, so a football buff might not enjoy it as much.

Hints-Press 1, 2, or 3 to send your team to different possitions during one player game. 1=Defense, 2=Normal, 3=Offense.

Codes!-Looking for one. Send any codes to me!

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Bubsy


Summary- Somone has messed up all the fairytales, and Bubsy has to fix them. What can I say? Its a Bubsy. Its actually a Bubsy 3, because 1 and 2 were out on other systems, and this one is totally different than any of the others. Its your basic jump and bop the enemy game.

Rating-
This can be a fun game, except for the control. At times, he seems to be doing the exact opposite of what you want him to do! His momentum during a jump makes small jumps a pain. The only thing that keeps this game from being a 2 star game is the great music and graphics.

Hints-The Bee's are very deadly (as are the sharks in the water levels). Jump and bop them quickly and avoid their stingers!

Codes!-Level Codes! Enter in Password screen:


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Checkered Flag


Summary- A fast-paced polygon racing game. Interesting options and tracks. Race against computer opponents, or against your own time, change the weather, the color of your car, the tires, and much more. Some strange things like space-ship flyby's.

Rating-
Not a bad game. Should have more tracks, but the ones it has are good, tough but good. Lots of options to keep you busy for a while. Only problem is the flat polygons. They should have had more detail.

Hints-Get used to the way the car turns. It is difficult to master at first, but once you are used to it, you can use it to your advantage.

Codes!-Race at night time!

On main screen, select "Weather" and press 8,4,7,3 in that order. The icon should turn to a night icon.>

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Club Drive


Summary- You are in a giant theme park in the future, and this theme park is made for cars! You take your car and drive it around in a variety of courses, including a very big house. The courses are large and fun with lots of secrets. Two player split screen action in a large amount of play options- change your cars color, speed, play car-tag, race, and much more.

Rating-
Very fun. The secrets and jokes keep you hooked. For example, you can ride around in a large house where a cat is chasing a mouse, you can flush the toilets (by running into them!), go under couches, watch T.V., and even go to a secret castle-island (drive thru one of the fireplaces!). The city course is huge, with whole blocks to ride in, and the Golden Gate bridge. Try to climb the mountain at the end of the city course, it can be done, and you can get to a flat section very high up!

Hints-Use the cool turn control! That means that there is more than one way to turn. If you press diagonal up-left or up-right, you will do a quick turn, while just left or right makes you turn normal, and diagonal down-left and down-right makes you turn slowly in that direction.

Codes!-Secret levels, secret camera angles, and cool little secrets.

Secret Levels!: Planet Todd- at world selection screen, press 4+2 at the same time, then press B. Now you have a cool race level for the 2 modes of play!

Drop and Fixed Camera Views on the normal races!: During gameplay press 8+6 together. Now fool around with the keypad to find the two new camera angles.

Secrets just for fun!: In the Big House level, drive thru the first fireplace (near the start line). You must go FAST! And on the western level, look in the two mineshafts. There is a grey wall in one corner, and in another shaft, there is a flashing wall. Touch these walls to be zaped to a little shortcut. One leads to the Atari building, and the other to a wierd scene. When you exit one of these, it puts you to the beginning or end of the race track, depending on which one you entered!

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Cybermorph


Summary- Cybermorph is an interesting flying/shooting game. It takes place in the future, and lets you roam large 3D landscapes in your transforming ship. You have lasers, bombs, mines, missiles, and flame throwers for your use. Many types of enemy's attack constantly, and some are very hard to track down and kill. You must save a certain amount of "pods", small diamond shaped things, in each world to complete a stage. Each stage has about 8 worlds, and one end boss world.

Rating-
Fun and entertaining, Cybermorph is an enjoyable game. But the graphics suffer from flat textureless polygons, and some slowdown at times. And the passwords only begin you at the very start of a stage, so you need to do all the worlds on a stage in one sitting (and survive the boss!).

Hints-Shoot all transport ships (green skulls on radar) to get power-ups. Save full-power item (the blue 6 sided thing sitting in some levels) until you really need it, because there is only one in a level!

Codes!-Level codes and unlimited ammo code:

Level Codes given to me by Dave thru my guestbook. Thanks Dave! Enter these codes at the "Planet (level) select" screen.

Unlimited Ammo- Press OPTION at title screen. When in the options screen, press 1+3+5+7+8+9, firebutton.

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Dino Dudes


Summary- Guide a group of Cavemen through there evolution. Solve twisted puzzles by navigating each caveman to do specific tasks. You must use all of the cavemen given to you as a team to help lift each other up, get things, and fight dino's. Large game with lots of (hard) puzzles and some nice 2D graphics.

Rating-
A good game with a bunch of flaws that drag it down. One thing is the anoying running around you do in the game. You do alot of walking and annoying things way to often. Another thing is the puzzle hardness. Some of the puzzles are a real pain, and do somthing one second late and you have to begin the puzzle again.

Hints-Keep track of your Humans! They are easy to lose, and you more than likely need ALL of them to complete a level!

Codes!-Unlimited Time, and Unlimited Lives.

Both codes are done in the Password screen


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Doom


Summary- You are a space marine called for duty on one of the moons of Mars. You stay outside the complex while all your army-buddies go in to fight a strange group of biengs that attacked the scientists inside. All the other marines are dead, the things killed them within hours, and only you are left. You, a bunch of weapons, and a huge amount of enemy monsters.

Rating-
This is THE Jaguar game. This game is a port of a very popular PC game, and there is enough first-person perspective action and pure fear in this game to keep you playing again and again! I was addicted to this game for years, and I still love it, even though its graphics are a bit dated as compared to id-software's (the people that made the game) latest stuff. A must buy for anyone who owns the Jaguar!

Hints-Use different weapons for different enemy's! Use the Chaingun or Plasma Rifle on Cacodemons and Barons Of Hell, use the Shotgun on Zombies and Imps, and try to use the Chainsaw on Demons. Try all the weapons. I love the Shotgun, and I use it most of the time, but its not a good weapon to use for long range (or BIG enemy's. I have been chewed up a few times by walking into a room full of Barons with only a Shotgun...). Use the BFG9000 to wipe out large amounts of enemys at once!

Codes!-Level Select, All Weapons, Ammo + Key's, and God Mode.

All codes done WHILE PLAYING THE GAME.


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Double Dragon


Summary- Use the Double Dragon characters to battle against each other in different locations. Street Fighter style moves and special attacks make the bulk of this game.

Rating-
A crappy game, mabey the worst on the Jaguar. Bad control, bad graphics, and worse play mechanics make this game very poor. The characters look like stubby cartoon rejects with flickering shaddows. Yicky.

Hints-Get used to the loose controls and the cheapness of the computer. That is the only way you can beat anybody in the game.

Codes!-Anyone have one??? Send it to me!

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Dragon: The Bruce Lee story


Summary- Guide Bruce Lee through all his famous fights. Runs along the same course as the movie of the same name. Use real moves, kicks, and punches, not fireballs or anything that cant really be done. Fight 1 or 2 player, or even 2 player against 1 computer opponent for a free for all battle.

Rating-
Very fun game with lots of differences from other fighting games. Some battles take place against two opponents at once! Great backgrounds and well done graphics make this one an eye pleaser as well.

Hints-Use the slanted kick move alot. It is hard to block and does good damage.

Codes!-???

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Fight For Life


Summary- Take control of a person who has died, and is now fighting in a tournament to win their life back and return to their normal lives. Fight using 3D polygon characters on 3D battlefields with a variety of moves.

Rating-
An interesting idea, but not carried out well enough. Nice graphics and backgrounds, but very loose control. You seem to jump when you dont want to, and moves are very hard to pull off. Some interesting stuff, like the ability to steal 2 moves off of every character you beat, and a password function.

Hints-Stay far away from the end of the arenas! One good punch can send you flying into the electric walls!

Codes!-To play as a secret character- Press OPTION on the character select screen, enter in GIVEMEPOWn as the code. Notice the SMALL "n" at the end, enter it just that way!

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Flip Out


Summary- Take part in a strange contest made by aliens, and solve puzzles where you have to flip colored "tiles" and place them in their right positions. Kooky graphics and sounds add to the strangeness of this game. Many puzzles and backgrounds with other tile flippers getting in your way.

Rating-
Very strange. An all new experiance with quite a few laughs. Great 3D-ish graphics and well animated characters are a riot (just watch the spectators! They dance, jump, cheer, knock there own eye's out, etc.). Enjoyable, if not a little short, and well worth playing.

Hints-Dont put too many tiles in the air at once! You will lose track and end up crashing one of them! And, in the levels where an enemy holds on to a piece, get him off before you swap other pieces around.

Codes!-Win Current Match, All Levels Activated, and Programmers' Heads:


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Hover Strike


NOTE-There are two Hover Strike games! A cartridge version, and an enhanced CD version. This review is on the cart version, so if you want to see the CD version, goto the CD section!

Summary- Use a hover-tank to make raids on overrun enemy planets. Save the colonists from the Terrakian Pirates and fight through snow, darkness, and many other battlegrounds. Use many weapons to destroy tons of enemy's!

Rating-
A cool game. 3D polygon graphics with large worlds and lots of weapons. Nice graphics with textures (in other words, its not just multicolored triangles like in Cybermorph, but they have designs and detail on them). A little on the choppy side though, and hardly any lighting effects. And it can be a pain because if you hit a solid object (a wall or steep slope) you get hurt, so you have to go slow. Well worth the money if you dont have a Jaguar CD, but if you do have a Jag CD, buy the cd version instead.

Hints- Be carefull about the walls. If you hit a wall, you will get hurt. And use morters to destroy enemy's on the other side of mountains, walls, etc.

Codes!- All sorts of stuff (all codes done at mission select screen screen, unless otherwise noted):

Secret Missions!- Type in the following codes on the mission screen (one code per level, so to activate the first secret mission, you have to be on the first level, etc.).

  1. U+2+3+6
  2. D+2+6+7+8
  3. R+3+5+6
  4. U+2+5+8
  5. R+2+4+5+6

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I-War


Summary- In the future the world uses a souped up version of the Internet. The whole world runs off of it, buisnesses need it, and it the backbone of the world. Someone puts a virus into the main computer, and thats where you come in. It will be world disaster is you cand pilot one of three tanks thru the I-net and destroy all virus pods and enemy's. Quite a few weapons and tons of different enemy's swarm this place.

Rating-
The enemy's and weapons make this game good. Lots of them all over the place. A two player Deathmatch mode is fun, but there is only 1 battle field for this. A little choppy, and the flat polygon graphics could have used some tweaking, but overall its a good game.

Hints-Try shooting enemy's from far away. Shoot a bunch of times in the same place so you kill the enemy before it can fire back.

Codes!- ????? Anyone know one? I have looked all over the place for a code for this game!

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Iron Soldier


Summary-Use a 40 foot tall robot to do major damage to the evil Iron Fist. Use a decent amount of weapons and attacks from a "1st person view" (in the drivers seat) to survive quite a few hasd missions. Protect convoy's, attack buildings, level entire city's, and lots of other very cool stuff.

Rating
A good game, not without its flaws. The main flaw is the save feature. You have to play a complete section of 4 or 5 levels before you can even save. This can be hard. The graphics are a little flat, with only very little texturing. But other than that, its a well made game with lots of weapons, enemy's, missions, and options that is fun to play.
Hints-When you are protecting a building or vehicle, try not to shoot them. You CAN destroy the thing you are trying to keep safe.
Codes!-All sorts of stuff (ALL are done at the option screen, unless it say's otherwise!)


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Kasumi Ninja


Summary- A two dimensional fighting game similar to Mortal Kombat. Control different characters in fight to the death battles complete with fatalities. The different characters range from masked ninja's to kick boxers and even an indian chief. All have their own attacks and backrounds.

Rating-
A fun game with some minor annoying traits. The large characters make for good detail but also slows down the controls. It has an interesting way of selecting characters, although it is a bit extravegant. Lots of blood and gore make this a very violent game that may appeal to some, but put parents off. The good thing is this violence and blood can be turned off and guarded with a code so young people can't turn it back on.

Hints- Use uppercuts alot. They are powerful moves that cause your opponent to fly too far away to do a counter attack. Also, while it may be cheesy, trapping the computer oponent in the corner using upper cuts is a very good tactic. Although I wouldn't use this against a human opponent unless you want to be beat up in real life.

Codes!- Character versus same character mode and tiny first player:


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Memory Track


Summary- This is the memory save cartridge for saving on Jaguar CD games. Simple to use (just plug it in the cartridge slot and turn on the Jaguar with a CD in it), and it has a huge memory. Unlike the Playstation memory cards, this has enough room for literally hundreds of saves.

Rating-
This is the best memory cartridge out there. While the Playstation can save only 15 games at most (some games use more than one slot), the memory track can save almost an unlimited amount of games. Therefore you only need one cartridge to save all the games you'd ever want.

Hints- When you start up the Jaguar hold the option button on the controller to access the memory track manager. Here you can delete and generally futz around with the game saves.

Codes! - Here's a list of commands that you can use in the memory track manager (some of these commands aren't listed in the instructions for the memory track).


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Power Drive Rally


Summary- Overhead view racing game. Speed along large twisting tracks in various weather conditions across the world. Use money earned by winning races to repair your car and ultimately buy brand new better cars.

Rating-
Large attention to detail, including everything from the white back-up lights to the honking horns, make this a very eye pleasing game. Nicely done graphics and speedy movement combined with the psycho tracks (try hitting a log at full speed...) make this a worthwhile game as well as being good looking. One of the only things that keeps this game from five stars is how tough some of the tracks are. There have been times where a track has aggravated me so much that I wanted to strangle the announcer who talks thoughout the whole race.

Hints- Avoid smashing into things, because it impedes the handling of your vehicle, and you also have to pay to have the damage fixed. Also, hitting jumps at fast speeds damages your shocks alot.

Codes!- Freeze you opponent in his tracks, and change you car color:


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Raiden


Summary- Top view shot-em-up game. Fly though large levels in a space ship while being constantly bombarded by too many enemies to count. Use a variety of weapons, including missiles and lasers to generally wreak havoc on anything that moves. Some interesting locations and odd enemies make this a decent shooting game.

Rating-
A pretty tough game that can sometimes overload your senses trying to kill all of the enemies before they kill you. Slightly cartoonish, but nice graphics and OK sound make this a decently fun game. I personally like this shot-em-up better than I like Trevor McFur. Real hard bosses will scare away some of the less patient game players, but any shoot-em-up fan should give it a try.

Hints- When you drop a bomb, hide inside of the explosion, because all the enemies fire will be blocked by the bomb. Use the wide scatter shot (the red squares that you pick up give you this gun) in heavily populated sections to take out as many enemies at once as possible.

Codes!- Infinite lives and bombs:


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Sensible Soccer


Summary-You're basic soccer sim. Use a bunch of tiny characters to kick a tiny ball into a tiny goal.

Rating-
Well, I have never been a really big soccer fan in the first place so I could be wrong about this. But I dont think so. Sorry less-than-8-BIT graphics sap the joy out of this one. The characters are so (so so so) small that they are hard to control. The timer moves to fast, even when it is set to the slowest setting at the options screen, and the computer is just too good. On the bright side (if there is one) is the game itself is down-to-the-detail with real soccer. From the crowd noises to the many teams and the ability to customize everything. It can be fun for a soccer buff, but for me, its more fun to watch the computer play against itself than to actually play it.

Hints-Kick the ball into the correct goal (or you may get shot) ;-)

Codes!(?)-There is a mysterious lack of codes for this game (or mabye they are so small that you cant see them...)

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Skiing and Snowboarding


Summary- Pick snowboards or skiies and shoot you're way down twisting slopes at almost blinding speeds. Avoid rocks, tree's, people, and other obsticles in order to get to the finnish line in time. Quite a few modes of play and Ski slopes to play.

Rating-
A good solid game, and one of the fastest on the Jaguar. A good amount of tracks and other goodies keep the fun going. But the speed can be bad. At times I found that I had no idea what was going on until I hit a tree at full speed (ouch). The graphics for the tracks are quite good, but the people are kind of jagged and flat. All around good gameplay make this a fun, and fast, game.

Hints- Avoid passing outside the finnish line or checkpoints! If you do not go through them, it will not count!

Codes!- Infinite Chances, and Secret Menu:


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