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Post by superfamiking on Mar 25, 2008 22:40:35 GMT
Eternal Champions was one of the few beat-em-up's I actually enjoyed outside of SF2............and someone told me it has a Saturn sequel???
Can't seem to find anything about it.........did it have a different name? as I wouldn't mind tracking it down!
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Post by chizzles on Mar 26, 2008 1:11:50 GMT
I've never heard of a sequel  Although I personally did not enjoy the game at all, all I'm aware of are the MD and MCD versions? |
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Post by blackjackuk on Mar 26, 2008 1:58:54 GMT
there was rumors of a saturn version but it was canned.
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Post by marx on Mar 26, 2008 11:36:30 GMT
On the first Saturn console boxes, on the back there was a picture of it, but the game never came out. It was just a CG image of one of the female characters faces.
I wonder why it was canceled, I was excited for it, but never received it. They were probably going to go 3d with it but couldn't make anything playable enough. The image is definitely a 3d CGI look, like the Cinekills.
Wikipedia has this to say...
"Two years later a sequel Eternal Champions: Challenge From The Dark Side (sometimes known as 'Eternal Champions CD') was released for Sega's ill-fated Genesis 'add-on' the Sega Mega-CD, and a final title Eternal Champions: The Final Chapter was advertised for the Sega Saturn but the game was cancelled shortly after beginning production. The Final Chapter was cancelled in order to push Virtua Fighter in the US."
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Post by neptune on Mar 26, 2008 15:18:45 GMT
Saturn version was never finished because SEGA were concentrating on their 3D fighters by then. I loved Eternal Champions. It had a seperate energy bar for special moves (Simmilar to the one on new release Bleach), and some decent characters. The mega CD sequal was the best version of the game. In truth there wasn't enough new to it to call it a proper sequel, but it played a little better than the original. Both copies come up for sale on Genki every now and again.
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Post by marx on Mar 27, 2008 6:01:54 GMT
I learned yesterday while I visited wiki that EC: CD was a sequel...*while I read it* What? I had no idea, I think the only thing that was added where a bunch of fatalities, other then that it's the same game...SF2 to SF2:CE evolved more.
All in all quality game, if I had a friend that would play it I would say it is easily a good reason to own a Mega CD.
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Post by ShenmueAddict on Apr 2, 2008 14:39:46 GMT
Eternal Champions: Challenge from the darkside is a great game, its got a fantastic intro, Loads of new characters and backgrounds, a brilliant soundtrack and the fatalitys are really cool. It is also one of the few games to break the Mega-CD's 64 colour pallette, with 256 on screen at once apparently. the only problem is the game is very very tough!
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Post by neptune on Apr 2, 2008 14:42:32 GMT
Oh dear, played this last night, think I may have been looking at it through rose tinted specs. Still playable, but no where near as good as I was imagining it to have been. Still think it was better than Mortal Kombat though.
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Post by chizzles on Apr 2, 2008 16:02:32 GMT
I never played it first time around, I just bought it one day from a Cash Converters, took it home, plugged in and thought "lol wut?".
My reaction was pretty much the same with the MK games, although I did play them first time around.
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Post by ShenmueAddict on Apr 3, 2008 7:08:05 GMT
I did play Eternal Champions the first time round and loved it, i still hold a high appreciation for it, i think it was a very underlooked and ignored game at the time because of MK (which is nowhere near as good IMO)
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Post by blackjackuk on Apr 3, 2008 11:37:38 GMT
I enjoyed the original EC but I've not had a chance to play the MCD one. I think I'd like it. Although the MD versions difficulty drove me to frustration at times!
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Post by ShenmueAddict on Apr 4, 2008 21:58:20 GMT
I enjoyed the original EC but I've not had a chance to play the MCD one. I think I'd like it. Although the MD versions difficulty drove me to frustration at times! Compared to The Mega-CD game, the original Eternal Champions is easy!!!!!!!!!! |
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Post by snow-katt on Feb 17, 2009 19:20:26 GMT
I did play Eternal Champions the first time round and loved it, i still hold a high appreciation for it, i think it was a very underlooked and ignored game at the time because of MK (which is nowhere near as good IMO) its not very hard to be better then mortal kombat until deception mk wasnt really much to write home about let alone play i vaugly remember eternal champions as being fucking difficult and i didnt find it much fun no |
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Post by aidanpole on Feb 17, 2009 19:40:33 GMT
Mortal Kombat II was great, then just went down hill after that, the high point for the entire series.
Eternal Champions was hard! Bought that game new with my pocket money back in the day, and I think I broke a Megadrive pad by throwing it to the ground playing that game, think it made me cry!
Fucking hated that game when i was younger!
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Post by snow-katt on Feb 17, 2009 19:47:03 GMT
mortal kombat II was unreasonably hard if thats the high point for the series must bebecause the rest of the series isnt much uptil deception
played eternal champions a lot never got any better at it
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