No, you race against the clock and pull of some absolutely sweet tricks along the way.
It’s a racing game, but you don’t race against other players or even AI characters. I’m a pretty big snowboarding fan, and to this date, I can’t think of many snowboarding games I have enjoyed more than Steep Slope Sliders. Back in the day, SEGA even released SEGA Rally Championship Plus: NetLink Edition – which featured online gameplay and leaderboards, something that is now expected of games these days. It’s not such a stretch to see SEGA Rally Championship coming to modern digital platforms. And the game is just so well made, that it is still genuinely enjoyable to play today. When set to one lap races the game can, theoretically, be completed in about 10 minutes – but to this date it’s still one of the best 10 minutes of gaming ever.
It’s easy to pick up and play, but much harder to master and complete. Sure it only had four tracks (three main and one unlockable) and three cars (two main, one unlockable), but it’s still one of the most enjoyable, pure racing games of its kind. The realism came from being the first driving game to feature different driving surfaces (such as asphalt, sand and mud), to which the cars’ handling abilities changed accordingly.
SEGA Rally was one of the first racing games to feature real vehicle licenses, with realistic car designs and was as close to a real driving experience as possible at the time. No gimmicks or fancy features – just pure racing brilliance. But, in my opinion at least, the original SEGA Rally is still the best in the franchise. I know that SEGA has released other SEGA Rally titles on XBLA and PSN, such as SEGA Rally Online Arcade. So with that in mind, here’s a list of five games I want to see on digital platforms:
But games like NiGHTS have just so much more to them, so many hidden pieces, different aspects to them that keep you playing for months, even years after that first weekend. Just like NiGHTS into Dreams, it’s possible to finish the game (from level one to the final boss) in a weekend. Generally, the digital platforms tend to have smaller, shorter titles – games that can be played over and over but completed in a shorter space of time than disc-based titles. But really, what games would actually work on platforms such as XBLA and PSN? If I had it my way, about 80 to 90 percent of Saturn games would be updated and re-released on modern systems and my first thoughts for this list were games like Shining Force III, Dark Savior and Enemy Zero. Now it’s actually a tougher question to answer than one might think. What with the release of NiGHTS into Dreams on PSN and XBLA, we were wondering: “What other Saturn games would be great on modern digital platforms?”
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