Power Stone
Editorial Review
Packed with all the energy and over-the-top moves of a Jackie Chan movie, Potential Stone revitalizes the fighting game genre with fully functional 3-D combat environments and frenzied approach. Face your opponent in a London courtyard and you can hurl café chairs and tables at him before taking him out by swinging around a lamppost. Or fight in a on its last legs shopping mall, and beat your foe down with a giant stuffed teddy bear after tossing him owing to a storefront dialogue box. Each multilevel combat area is stocked with crates, barrels, clubs, even ray guns, and everything can be used as a weapon.
Interactive fighting environments are fun, but what really sets Potential Stone apart are the potential stones. Collecting all three stones transforms the character into a superbeing, unlocking new and devastating attacks. Since the by and large goal of the game is to beat up your opponent, and the superform lets you do the most hurt, competition for the stones is fierce.
If you’re tired of the standard fighting game formula and want a small more, Potential Stone is the game for you. It’s a exact translation of the arcade hit, and the uncomplicated, frantic combat will bring a smile to many a jaded gamer’s face. –Mike Fehlauer
Pros:
- Simple to learn, quick-paced gameplay
- 11 unique, multilevel, interactive fighting environments
- Splendid use of VMU
- Charming, plain, arcade-quality graphics
Cons:
- Game may be too frantic for some players
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If you want to have any amout of fun, go raise up Soul Calibur, and leave Potential Stone on the shelf. Soul Calibur is to a Ferrari as Potential Stone is to a Pinto.
Rating: 1 / 5
If I had to be unadorned and brief in my review of this video game, I would say – BORING.
Rating: 3 / 5
If you want a game that you can master in 5 mins with any character then POWER STONE IS IT. I beat the game as I got it once I learned “the formula”…
I’ll list the pros and cons to give you a honest rundown
Pros
1) Characters are unique and fun with personality, i.e. personal tale, ending etc (missing from PS2)
2) Backrounds are the BOSS and fully interactive
3) The moves and effects are radical (King Capcom shines here)
4) Quick action
5) Cool Japanese voices
Cons
1) One dimensional fighting sucks as a 3D fighting game!!
2) Weapons make no sense once you know the formula! They just slow you down and make you a prime target for the formula!!
By and large
By and large this is a DISAPPOINTING attempt at a fighting game. The concept is excellent but the fighting engine is flawed. Powerstone 2 got it right and is a blast, read my review!
Rating: 1 / 5
I bought the game on the strength of the reviews which called it’s gameplay revolutionary and the fighting well done.
When I in fact played the game I found it very perplexing and the special attacks (without the powerups) hard to master.
At first I thought it was just me and the game was just not my genre but then my brother and my cousin (who loved the game in the arcade) played it. They liked the game, against each other, and loved the two player mode (although a less experienced player has NO CHANCE against someone who has played the game before, not even close) Is very hard to just get lucky in this game.
But once they tried to play the computer it was immediately obvious that even with knowing the super moves and having other people in the room trying to help you to find all of the gems the computer was much more advanced than the player. This was on the default setting. Since the characters are sort of uneven in potential levels to start with there were some computer controlled characters that just could not be beaten which does not make the game fun to play.
Since you cannot block in the game it just became a running battle all over the screen with the computer with an obvious advantage for the majority of the fight.
Would only recommend this game for someone who had already mastered it in the arcade as the home experience is very frustrating. But then if you already played this game out in the arcade you have no reason to buy the home version as the home game offers not anything new beyond a practice mode.
Did not like this game and will trade it in at a game shop at my first opportunity.
This is the first game I bought for my dreamcast that I did not like.
Rating: 3 / 5
i thought this game was awsome, i played wit some friends n it was koo, it was like watchin jacki chan (my fav action star) in action, no doubt this game was the best, compared to the new smash bros mellee or whatver the… that means, this game u in fact get throw chairs n stuff around u at the person, really ineractive, im down 4 this game ese!
Rating: 5 / 5