Zool 2
Jump into the Nth dimension!
By Dan LoosenNovember 8, 2004
There are not a lot of people who truly
like Zool 2 for the Jaguar. They site a variety of problems from
sloppy control to an overly fast-paced speed and on and on. Personally,
I am one of the people that love Zool 2 and I don't understand
where everyone else is coming from.
I've never been drawn into the Sonic series because I don't find it
challenging at all. You have all that speed, but it takes a lot of
stupid moves before you end up dead and having to restart. The speed
didn't appeal without a tough challenge to go with it. Enter Zool 2...
and my idea of a fast-paced game with a serious challenge has arrived.
Zool 2 is
fast.
Everything about this game tells you to move at warp speed throughout
the whole thing... except you need to get a bunch of pieces of candy
before the end boss will come out to challenge you. This means that you
have to manage your speed, and gives you quite the challenge as you
speed along way to face the evil Mental Block.
The graphics are cute, and the game features Chupa Chups. Yes, that is
correct, those awesome suckers have made their way into this game. But
I digress, the graphics... The graphics look great, and the Jaguar
handles them about as good as could be expected. Once in a while, the
game suffers from slowdown when there is stuff flying everywhere but it
doesn't hurt the game at all. In fact, I like the slowdown because it
calms the game down sufficiently so I can figure out what is going on
again.
The music is perfect. Yes, this game has what I consider to be an
absolutely flawless soundtrack. There were times that I would turn on
my Jaguar, throw in Zool 2 and sit down and do something else just to
listen to the tunes. The sounds aren't quite as perfect, and they
actually are almost a little too "cute." They get very repetitive after
a short period, but you are stuck with the same sounds the whole game.
The control... A lot of people complain that this game allows you to
jump with the D-pad, but I don't understand the problem. Yes, once in a
while you accidentally hop from hitting the up arrow on accident, but I
have never had this seriously impact a game. In fact, I like the layout
because I can keep one hand shooting and if I see something about to hit
me, I can hop without having to try to hit two buttons at once to shoot
at my assailants.
Grab this game and jump into the Nth dimension, and join Zool in his
race to save your imagination You won't regret it!
Game Data |
Scores
|
| Title |
Zool 2 |
Graphics |
95% |
| Publisher |
Atari |
Sound/Music |
90% |
| Genre |
Platformer |
Gameplay |
95% |
| System |
Jaguar |
Control |
95% |
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|
Overall |
95% |
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