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 Space Channel 5 Huy Nguyen  

Aliens known as the “Morolians” invade the year 2499. These creatures that look like a cross between teletubbies and Microsoft’s mascots have hypnotized citizens with their uncontrollably funny dance moves. Who can save them from this horrible disaster? The space diva herself, Ulala. 

The game play itself is very easy. You have to follow the rhythm a la bust-a-groove. Watch the alien’s moves and mimic what they say.  Once you’ve got that down there is a shooting  part as well. Again it is fairly simple, A, to shoot the aliens and, B, to save the hostages. When saving the hostages they will join you, building a giant dance posse! Sometimes you can get up to 20 people or more following right behind you following your moves, without a hint of slowdown.  Keeping your T. ratings up is an important factor as well. Each level is required for you to get a specific rating, if you don’t reach that rating, you will have to restart the level. Another factor are the hearts you have. They only give a limited amount of them and each time you screw up they take one away, and if all are gone, your show is canceled! So that means if you are on the last or longest level and accidentally lose all your hearts you will start the level at the very beginning. Other gamers have argued that sometimes they put in the exact command but they count as if it was wrong, though you may have this problem the first time you play it, you just have to adapt to the timing to get it right. It may sound a little easy but it gets highly difficult on the later levels. The game play will pump up the speed and add more complicated commands.  

The graphics are superb. The bright flashy colors really make this game shine out. The environment seems as if it came right out of “The Jetsons”. It’s a new and refreshing look. The characters are highly detailed and so are the backgrounds, though Sega used MPEGS for use of them, they still look amazingly detailed. The sound is awesome! Some of Sega’s best work yet. 

The music is probably the highlight of this game. It’s a cross between 60’s groove and techno. You’ll be dancing in your chair all the way through the game and humming or even singing to its incredible music. But sometimes the alien’s sounds are too loud and therefore you can’t here the music to well. The work done on the voices is sheer perfection! Apollo Smile, who is the voice of Ulala, has done a fantastic job;  The other characters are extremely well done too.  

You’ve probably heard this a million times about this game but if you didn’t, the game is extremely short, about four levels. An above average gamer can beat this in less than an hour; it’s sad but true. But there is still life once you have completed the game entirely. There are special routes you find once you’ve beaten the game. But still it doesn’t add too much to the replay value. Also the game is just screaming out for a multi-player, sadly there isn’t. But you can always play the game over and over again which is still great. 

Space Channel 5 is a great game that anyone can enjoy. It dominates its genre and though it may have some rough edges along the way, you’ll find the game addictive and a blast to play again and again.

Game Faqs
Sega
1 Player
Music/ Dance
Dreamcast
 
Scoring
Graphics 9.5
Gameplay 9.5
Sound 10.0
Replay Value 7.5
9.1
 
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