Sega Power

The console press joined in later.

Sega Power, Future's Sega magazine, gave the Mega Drive version 3%.

And Edge, the Future magazine, Steve Jarrett, launched in October 1993, gave the PC version 2 out of 10.

Edge giving it 2 is extra spicy because Edge had run an 8-page feature on the game back in December 1993.

Amiga CD, 32, Gamer gave 90, and Amiga Action, 92.

CU Amiga gave 80, the 159, and Amiga Computing, 50.

Amiga Format gave 19, Amiga Power, 5, Sega Power, 3, and Edge 2 out of 10.

For me, the Amiga version gets 3 out of 10.

Now, the reviews, and this is a nice change, because the British Sega mags pretty much all loved it.

Sega Power gave it 93.

Uh, that's Future's Sega mag, which started out as S: The Sega Magazine, and its very first issue, uh, was posted to people who'd sent back their Master System warranty cards.

Posting a, a free magazine to everyone who filled in a warranty card is a clever trick, Lee, and I bet half of them had forgotten doing it.

Sega Power also gave away little paperback novels on the cover, and one of them was a Desert Strike story, so they were clearly fans of the series.

Sega Magazine gave it 90.

That was EMAP's official Sega mag, launched at the end of '93, which meant EMAP, uh, were basically competing with their own independent title, Mean Machines Sega.

I'd love to know if anybody actually finished the Game Boy version on that tiny green screen, though.

It did not.

Come '91, uh, Sega Power gave it two out of five and moaned about the, the jerky scrolling, and when EMAP's Mean Machines Sega, uh, looked back at it in 1992, it gave it 48% and said Game Evolution had selected it for extinction.

48 for my Altered Beast.

Game Evolution selected it for extinction is a brilliant line, and I'm sorry, Lee, but I'm going to be saying that to you all week.

On the Mega Drive, Ace gave it 940 out of 1,000.

Computer and Video Games and the Games Machine, both 87.

Then, uh, later, uh, Sega Power, two out of five.

And Mean Machines, Sega, 48.