CYBERSPORT : LIFE IS BUT A DREAMCAST, BUT IS THAT ALTOGETHER BEST?Byline: - Tom Hoffarth We've got it on good information that if Mike Shanahan Michael Edward Shanahan (born August 24, 1952) is an American football coach of the Denver Broncos in the National Football League. He led the Broncos to back-to-back Super Bowl victories in 1998 and 1999. He is also a member of the Delta Sigma Phi fraternity. allows Brian Griese Brian David Griese (born March 18 1975 in Miami, Florida) is an American football quarterback for the Chicago Bears of the NFL. He is the son of former NFL great Bob Griese of the Miami Dolphins. to play the whole game tonight against Miami, then Denver will pull out a 29-24 victory with 42 seconds left - only because of a dropped pass in the end zone on the Dolphins' final play. Our source: Sega Dreamcast's new ``NFL NFL abbr. National Football League NFL (US) n abbr (= National Football League) → Fußball-Nationalliga 2K'' ($49.95) video game, which is about as close to reality as something like this can get. We appreciate the realism that video games See video game console. have been able to offer over the last several years. But Sega's amazing Dreamcast system ($199) with 128 bit graphics - twice as many as Nintendo 64, for those who can do the math - brings us to the not-so-virtual line in the sand. When is it get too real? It might be too real when you let the computer take its information, set up a ``Monday Night'' matchup between Denver and Miami, and watch something that lacks only Al Michaels Alan Richard Michaels (born November 12, 1944) is an American television sportscaster. Currently employed by NBC Sports after nearly three decades (1977 – 2006) with ABC Sports, Michaels is one of the most prominent and respected members of his profession. and Boomer Esiason's comments between plays. It can be downright spooky. But in a pretty neat way, the game lives up to its hype. Stacked up against the other current NFL video games - Sony PlayStation's ``NFL GameDay 2000'' and ``Madden NFL Madden NFL is an American football video game series developed by Electronic Arts Tiburon for EA Sports. The game is named after Pro Football Hall of Famer John Madden, a well-known color commentator for NBC Sports and formerly a successful Super Bowl-winning coach during 2000'' and Nintendo 64's ``NFL Quarterback Club NFL Quarterback Club is a Super Nintendo Entertainment System game to feature quarterbacks from the NFL. Troy Aikman and Warren Moon are two examples of what players can use during the game. 2000'' - the Sega entry stands far above. It not only mirrors each team's style of play and play-calling tendencies, it has added features such as all 31 NFL stadiums in accurate 3D models, college alumni teams, more realistic audio, high-level-player detailing and a performance-equalization option that allows mismatched teams to have equal abilities that none of the others have. A 56k modem is included to let game players hook into a PC and play others. One reason it looks so impressive is that runs at 60 frames a second. A regular TV only runs at 30. It has 1,600 motion-captured moves. Most others have about 400. About the only way this can be more realistic is if they'd add the instant-replay system and allow the virtual coaches to contest calls. It didn't go that far, for which we're thankful. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO no caption (Sega Dreamcast NFL 2K video game) |
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