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Truly defining the gaming laws this sequel manages to surpass the original in everyway! In MDK2 you play as Kurt Hectic (mild manor janitor), Dr. Fluke Hawkins (egotistic scientist) and Max (robot dog with a taste for fire power). It is with those 3 characters that MDK2 comes to life with a nice variety of game play. The story starts off minutes from the original and on the Jim Dandy (Hawkins home and orbital spaceship) our heroes are relaxing until aliens attack earth. Kurt's off to the mothership, Swizzle Firma, Max fly's off to a near by spaceship and Dr. Hawkins takes care of the aliens aboard the Jim Dandy. Right off the bat MDK2 is a very, very challenging game. In fact I think it was named the 6th hardest game of all time according to IGN. You wonder through ten huge levels, first as Kurt then Dr. Hawkins and then Max and then repeat. For Kurt it all about the sniping and killing. He has a lot of platform jumping as well. For Hawkins its puzzle solving and creating new inventions such as the infamous Atomic Toaster, which uses different types of bread for ammunition. For Max it just kill, kill, kill! He has four arms and each arm can carry a weapon. Now that's a great idea! What's really amazing in MDK2 is the shear size of the levels. From an in game perspective they are huge both in length and atmosphere. The music is very nicely done with each character having there own style. The graphics still manage to look great. Unfortunately this game maybe to hard for some gamers, because you will die a lot. To add to the frustration is the fact that it saves by check points rather than save anywhere feature. Other than that its easily the one of the best games I've ever played.

I remember back in 1995 when this came out, as well as being ported to the Sega Saturn. I purchased and was blown away by what I found. The story is as follows: Its 1997 and in a local area hospital in downtown Los Angeles, a mass murder has taken place. The murder is one Richter Harris. Harris has barricaded himself in the hospital where police can no longer reach him. His daughter Laura Harris is contacted and rushes to the scene of the crime. Laura slow begins to edge toward the hospital to go in and find out what has made this respected doctor, her father, kill.

This game was incredibly cinematic. I'll never forget the opening scene when there are multiple mutilated bodies upon entry of the hospital. It was basically over looked, but the main character Laura went on to star in several other games. A spin off called Enemy Zero and D's sequel D2. All three are on Sega consoles and the last 2 are only on Sega Saturn & Sega Dreamcast. For me it was better than Resident Evil; its not a copy off as it came out before Resident Evil. If you like grotesque horror I would run to the stores and get it! Its still is to this day one of if not my favorite.(Get the Sega Saturn version because it has all the deleted scenes not featured in other versions!)

In 1996 Mario 64 was released a Sega bleed a little, with Saturns inferior 3D graphic hardware and the cancellation of Sonic Xtreme, it left Sega in a state of shock. But with the impressive specs of they're upcoming Dreamcast system, the Sonic Team was full able to utilize its hardware. Considered the be the best, not only in sales, game in the Dreamcast library, it helped set the graphical standard years ahead of its time. This game, sales rivaling that of Halo, was popular enough to spawn a sequel, a TV series (sonicX) and a soundtrack. My friends are still fooled by its graphics, they think this game was made recently.It still is and will always be my favorite game.