Desert Strike: Return to the Gulf

The Good
What don't I like about this game?! This is completely AWESOME! I enjoyed the music greatfully! The mixture of Heavy Metal, Punk, Grunge, and Battle music sets the attitude for this game in such an award winning way! The characters very much resemble the famous and infamous people of the Gulf War! The plot and story were very brilliant mixing in real life world events!

The Bad
"Saddam hussien's"(or The Madmans) beard. Saddam only had a mustache during this time.

The Bottom Line
The greatest shooter of all time. It's so compelling. The gameplay will have you feeling a challenge coming on! The thing they say in the credits about making it a big movie and actually joking about it, I'd say they should make the movie anyways! Universal Pictures please!

The Good
It is a good old classic game that should exist forever. With games like this the good old 16 bit generation will live forever.

The game is packed with much action and details. The thing where you fly nearly free around in an Apache is cool. But when you can see little people running on the screen and small cars driving on streets, the game is more interesting. And you're not only flying around, you must blast your way free with Hellfires, Hydras and your machinegun.

The Bad
I played this game in all versions. This game also exists on: Amiga, SNES, MegaDrive (Genesis), LYNX and I think on Jaguar too.

The BEST version is the AMIGA one.

I really like this game and compared them all. The Amiga version has the best sound and the most speech-effects. Also, the best thing, the explosions are really cool made. The entire screen is for a millisecond white and a strong explosion comes through your TV speakers. On other versions like the SNES or GBA, the explosions are lame and not so spectacular. Also the people don´t scream or speak too much.

The graphics themselves are not so different.

The Bottom Line
A great game. But not the best version! If you like this game, play the Amiga-version, it is great.

The GBA version is lame, when you look on the amiga, but playable. For every GBA user a must-have!

The Good
Desert Strike has always been one of my favorite all time games and just within the last 2 years I've been playing it on other platforms beyond the Genesis Realm, from which I came. The version for SNES in almost all ways the same as the Genesis. Graphics are a little bit improved to normal SNES standards, mostly on color, making it almost hard to see the difference if not looked at closely. The music has much been reworked. The controls are a little tough to get used to if you've played on Genesis. But you get it along the way. The cool cinemas like Hollywood inside are just as good as Genesis.

The Bad
What didn't seem to match up good was the music. Now I've always known Desert Strike for having such excellent music scores that gave you a blend of rock, patriotic, hip hop, techno, and orchestra all put together to create something so spectacular that Hollywood could never get any closer! Here on the SNES, it somewhat lost it. It's given a more simple drum beat that sounds only patriotic. The only music that meets the expectations of the Genesis are from the Cinemas. That's where it's more original. Some of the new music is a little better over a few times but not all. And another annoying item is the couple second wait to "load" up the map.

The Bottom Line
What you are looking at is a game from the Genesis that's in a way ported to the SNES with some minor and major changes. Don't get me wrong the gameplay is the same great gaming I love but if the music was still faithful, which has always provided a sense of power, attitude, I think Desert Strike for the SNES would have been a little bit more better.