Firepower 2000

"One of the best action games!!"

One of the best action games!!
Yup, it's true! It's one of the best action games out there! It's got cars, helicopters, boats, airplanes and three names!! It's a top view action view, with loads of weapons and enemies!

Chopper or jeep? That should be one of the first questions to ask yourself. When you start the game, you have to choose between these two vehicles. The chopper can travel over buildings and trees, but the car can shoot and drive in eight directions.

GRAPHICS: 9 - For being a Super Nintendo game, it's wonderful! Detailed sprites and very good backgrounds. We do also have some cutscenes that are pretty cool pictures! The levels are very different and filled with details, we do have a volcano, a desert and a river for example.

SOUNDS: 5 - Well, the best way to describe the sound effects is Booooooom!!! It's not that very good... But the music is pretty good sometimes!

CONTROLS: 9 - The control for the SNES is a rule-maker for all the other developers, and Nintendo themselves use similar controls for all their consoles. This game use these controls really good! They're easy to learn, use and remember, now it's just another thing to worry about...

DIFFICULTY: 10 - Oh man, this is hard! ROCK HARD!! Well, if you're not a perfect action game player, you will not make it to the end. If I do a ''fun game'', not playing with all my senses focused on the game, i can't make it to level two. There are six levels in this game, all of them are pretty hard and this game has not got no easy beginning, no crash course or training facility, just plain and hard action straight from the start!

MULTIPLAYER COMPABILITY: 7 - This game supports two players. It is much easier if you play it with a friend, because you get the double firepower!

LONG LIVING: 8 - Well, if you can stand getting ''Game Over'' all the time, this is very long living. If you are the type that throws the controller on the SNES when you lose; DON'T BUY THIS GAME!!! It's so rock hard, so it'll take most surely a few years before you manage to get to the end...

TOTAL: 8 - The total score would be higher if the developers had focused a little more on long and more levels than on difficulty. But it's at least a good two-player game and it's really long living thanks to it's difficulty (on good and bad). But it's one hell of a good game, so my advice is to buy it if you are still playing on your SNES.

Name note: This is just a pretty important note, in some places, this game is called ''Super SWIV'' or ''Firepower 2000''.

Reviewer's Score: 8/10, Originally Posted: 12/13/02, Updated 12/13/02