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Power Stone 2

5 star:		(21)
4 star:		(10)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

Four stars is pretty good when I rate a video game, but low and behold, this game is great. This series started off with the silent Power Stone which was a free roaming fighting game with interactive boards. This aint' no classical way to fight like 2D games like Street Fighter or Marvel vs. Capcom, this is the first of its kind, and its pretty [darn] good.

Everything I hated about Power Stone has been fixed and Iam pleased to say they did a bang up job. To start with the characters would be silly since the selection is sparse and is not relevant to the whole gaming experiance. This game soley relies on using your environment to your advantage. For example, there is a gun turret on the boat, to rid of your enemies best, hop on the turret and blast them out of the water. Fun and a great alternative to fighting. In the game, Capcom added a new feature wich allowed you to buy wepons and items in the Item Shop, just like Marvel vs. Capcom with Secret Factor. The levals have been touched up with a new twist, the environments change. Yes, hard to believe but if your boat is off course, there is a possibility that it can hit and iceberg and the boat could sink and you would be forced to climb onto the iceberg. This all happens and you are still fighting.

This sequal has new characters, new [changing] environments, four-player mayhem, and new wepons and items that will make this a worthy game to buy for fans of the original. For those of you who have never tried the orginal, give it a whirl. I have two knocks on this game, one is no network play and two is its confusing with four players. These knocks are minor and so small, it dosent affect the game. Check it out, this is one not to pass up.

Say what you will about Capcom's sequal making past (Look! Street Fighter 2 Alpha Plus Omega Edition 16 Squared!), they got just about everything right with Power Stone 2.

Taking a cue from the possibly over-hyped Dead or Alive 2, Power Stone 2 brings level-interactivity in a fighting game to new heights. Using a 3/4 perspective view, one can do more than strafe around an enemy or hop over them. One can do A LOT more. Such as what, you ask? Well, how about hopping into gun turrets on submarines, before they submerge, and blasting away? Or how about uprooting a pole from the ground and making a home run with the nearest enemy? Anyway, a whole new level of interactivity.

Power Stone 2 also has something for the unlocking crowd out there- an item buying and mixing mode. By playing through the game in "adventure" mode, you accumulate items, which can be then sold at the item shop. More importantly, however, is the fact that you can mix them together, and create new, never-before-seen items! You could do this for days! Weeks!

Dishing out the damage against three opponents is entertaining, and leads to some good strategy in what is otherwise a very simplistic combat engine. And it's a good thing that the combat is simple- sometimes it's hard enough just trying to figure out where your damn character is after they've been swatted with a tennis racquet.

And that is my only real problem with the game- sometimes it's hard to figure out what the heck is going on. Well, that and the occasional cheap shot from one of the bosses. Certainly nothing to cry about.

However, with entertaining characters, great gameplay, and an item costing 20,000,000 credits,which you will NEVER have, this game will stay in the Dreamcast for a long time. Certainly a great purchase.

Basicly if u havnt played the first it was a 1v1 3d battle where u can kick, punch, hurtle chairs and tables and do just about everything you want. The reason its called powerstone was that there where 3 stones which would gradually apear as the fight went on. If a player got all 3 they could use speacial attacks at thier opponent. The first thing about Power Stone 2 (i dont write PS2 for a reason) is it supports 4 guys at once. If you think of a 3d super smash brothers you have a good idea how the fighting works, but you can still use whatevers lying around the level and any guns or weapons which apear. Finally even in the 4 player if you aquire 3 stones you get your special moves. As you can imagine the 4 player is a total mayham and gives players very little time to think what there doing. The team battle was a little more organized, but the only stradegy which works is to try to isolate 1 enemy and then double team him. The 3v1 and 2v1 modes where crazy. One pore guy get kicked around with no chance for victory. The game not only has these features but about 2 weeks after it comes out you can play online. About the levels and fighters there are plenty of diverse levels which all have unique aspects (in 1 you are sky diving and another theres a huge boulder roling around. There are also two new guys which i didnt recognize from power stone 1. Well overall it was about 4.6 out of 5 stars and anyone who likes alot of fighting will love this game.

There's a ton of great Dreamcast games worth owning.. here's another one. After Street Fighter 2, Capcom languished in unoriginality for quite some time, but it's clear the company has been experiencing a creative rebirth. Power Stone 2 pours on the innovation.

Basically its a 3-D game where you run your character around and try to beat up everybody else. The stages in this game are amazing and usually feature many hazards, like cliffs to throw your opponents off of and wild power-ups. Unlike traditional fighting games, this game is more about keeping an eye on the big picture of the battle and not letting your opponent get an advantage on you through the use of items or the stage itself. There are all sorts of wicked special effects (lots of ranged attacks), and some stages seem to stretch for miles as the battle rages into different areas.

With 4 players this game is tremendous fun, with most participants constantly yelling and screaming about what's going on, but there's even a lot of crazy stuff to do in the 1-player game, trying to unlock more secrets using an in-depth item system which I like a lot.

First, let me tell you about the gameplay of Power Stone 2. Controls are very good and easy to pick up, great graphics, you can combine items together to make new ones, and the levels are HUGE!!!! You can unlock hidden levels, and get new items from single-player. This game makes a great party game. But it has it's problems. On single player, you don't have a lot of fun. You just fight people and it is very easy. In one week, I have unlocked all the hidden characters, and got all the weapons. NOW WHAT DO I DO? I play this game when my friends come over, but when they leave, I usually turn it off right away. In this game, they have the camera view from far above the level, and the camera never zooms in like in Power Stone 1, making the characters very small. What happened to the internet play??? They said it would have internet play, but they decided not to at the last minute. Too bad. I was looking forward to the internet play. Plus, there are only a few levels. They should have had a lot more.

While Power Stone 2 is a great game, I think that if Power Stone 1 went up to four players, it would be BETTER than Power Stone 2. If they ever make a Power Stone 3, I hope it is more like Power Stone 1, when in that game, you can actually see the level and the characters up close. Definitely rent or buy this game. Even with it's problems, it is a good fighting game.

I would recommend that you GO GET a Dreamcast JUST for POWERSTONE 2!! This game recently destroyed a party with friends because of its simplicity and appeal. Er..I mean destroyed in a good way. If you have the friends or family (and yes unlike PS1, you can play this one with Mom or little Jimmy around) then GO GET IT. The multi player is beyond description!! The single player mode is kinda flat and leaves you feeling short changed but to make up for that to can play a mayhem match with the CPU controlling the other 3 characters or collect rare weapons while you try to fight in Adventure mode.

The basic rundown:

Pros
1) MULTI PLAYER ROCKS!!!
2) Even on a rainy day with no friends around you can still enjoy a mayhem match.
3) The graphics are awesome
4) The backrounds are even bigger and badder
5) The sheer amount of weapons to find or create by mixing existing weapons is awesome
6) Two players can team up to go through the game
7) Rogue is seriously toned down to family friendly standards (good move)
8) NO MORE ONE TRICK PONY VICTORIES, you gotta fight for a win here
9) Fighting engine was reworked to make the game MORE FUN and IT WORKED
10) Adventure mode adds replay value to the single player experience
11) New characters (especially Accel) are a welcome addition.
12) Japenese voices are left intact

So why not 5 stars with so many pros? Read on

Cons
1) No character personality or good story or character endings.
2) Small number of stages (less than PS1) and stages do not reflect any character in particular.
3) Single player mode LIMITED except for Adventure Mode
4) The final boss is a waste of game memory and resources. The final boss is pathetic and demonically ugly!! The other short-comings could be over looked but this freak is sickening. My spirit is disturbed every time I see him. We could have seen a better final boss one with style and a rad multi level backround. This brought down the score more than anything else!
5) No Powerstone 3 for Dreamcast

Overall
GET THIS GAME AND A SECOND HAND DREAMCAST IT IS WORTH IT!! Buy a Dreamcast at Amazon now... games this fun that are not sports titles aren't made anymore.

this game is awesome. it's the best fighting game i've ever played. it has a so many weapons you can make. health items, guns, poles, and even stuff you can ride on. it has one player and multiplayer. they have great characters. and of course, like the first, collect three power stones to transform into a more powerful form, where you have special attacks. some characters are strong but slow, some are fast but kinda weak, and some are balanced. the stages are also awesome. every stage moves, meaning, something happens to it and it requires you to move to a different arena. and you can pick up stuff, like vases, and throw them at your enemy. the stages are very interactive. the controls are awesome and easy to use. the camera views are awesome too. i definently recommend getting this game. a lot better than the first one. this one has the same characters as the first one and four new ones. it's an awesome game. highly recommended!

This game is better than part one in some ways and part one is better than part two in some ways but the best part is the four player mayham. All the characters from part one are in Power Stone 2: Falcon, Wangtang, Galuda, Gunrock, Jack, Ryoma, Ayama, and that one lady. And they have extras like: Accel, Julia, Pete, Garmond. And the two secret characters: Pride, and Mel. And all new weapons like Gigantic Hammer, Unbrella, Spear, Beam Gun, 5-way Shotgun, Fireworks, and Magical Staffs. And you can put on New Cloths like Cat tail, Rabbit legs, Crown, and Straw hat. The bosses are bigger that Final Valgus from part one. I reccomend this game for the best.

If you have never found a good game to play here is what to do:
1)play Power stone 2 / 2)play Power Stone 2
3)repeat steps one and two.
I gave this game 7 out of 5 stars because it is crazy and enjoyable, plus there really are no cons to it. If you get a dreamcast, this is the first game you should get.

OH Wow another fighting game...not! This is the fastest paced,funnest,fighting game i have ever played.If you played the first one and felt it was good but lacked something the makers found it too and filled it in when they made the sequel.up to 4 players for top action.I also think one of the coolest features on this game is that you can set up teams for you and the computer! One time i was a pilot fighter on my own team(falcon for those that know the names) fighting three really strong and buff guys on their own team(gunrocks). I won once out of the 20 times i tried.they were all running around only after me. teams is an awesome move by the makers of this game.another cool thing is being able to jump off of stuff like walls and poles to make high powerful slams on to your opponent. it can get really fun when there is a pole just a few feet from the wall-you get jump so high off of them.PLus being able to throw just about anything that isn't attatched to the scene is good.while were on the subject of the scenes it is awesome that they change over the 5 to 10 minute fights.It is cool that the arenas are places with mass destruction areas like on water warcraft(artillary submarines)so you can use the machine guns and helicopters and bombs.plus the submarines eventually crash on to an iceburg where there are ice blocks all around to throw at opponents.there are several other arenas however- don't get me wrong.that wasn't the only one.up in the manufacturer's review or whatever it states 1 player isn't nearly as fun as multiplayer. Well i think that is wrong. while i can see where it is coming from i think it just offers a different version of the game. plus it isn't cool that you don't have to go through all the levels to get to the boss. that, however, could have been just the makers trying to let you set the game up for your preferance.this game is the best in the world.
-about the title "i don't even own this game" it goes back to the summer of 2002. my friend came over for a week over the summer and we rented this game.A great choice-in fact we rented the ame because the first one was so good.i had 21 games and none were as good as power stone 2. I sold it all after that summer but missed power stone 2's action that i always wanted to buy.I then longed for a power stone 2 game.but now i am going to buy just a dreamcast,two controllers,a memory card, and the powerstone two game because i miss it so much and just for old times sake.those were the good days. this is the game probably that i remember the most about even though i only rented it from blockbuster for 5 days.that is how much i like that game.