No change

for Daytona

Shaun Conlin’s
Video Games of the Week

Daytona USA Champion
Circuit Edition on the Satsrn
A clear case of fixing what
wosn't broken, this tweaked
out, specicl- edition: style road
race is not really an improve-
ment on the original (Daytona
USA). Nor is if a regression.
Just slightly different. A greater
.. array of cars, most sacrificing
r handling or vice-
sa, and more race tracks,
alt a pleasant chall enge. Bot Both
james are some of
ard-nosed, _ pedal- he
metal driving on the market.
_ However, in fnew ‘two-play-
er mode, the Champion Circuit
edition pretty much bites.

rend 6 the Fic the Playstation

sled jh furutatic hos Tae ar/oir
rand prix, Wipeout pro-
videsa fair'decl of eccitetnent
. for the arm-chair _ racer.
tronically, there is much moore
‘bashing an inging
wiping. out in this ome.
Picking up and discharging
Ns as you go, you must
nih ech race in at least
third place before moving to
the next level. Sony's versicn is
“clearer and smoother,. but
‘Sega seems to pve purposely
.. ‘sacrificed looks for speee
Sega's Wipeout ‘i is roticeab y
bister and as we all know, ifs
not the paint jcb that makes a
Perron move like it does. In th
end, however, the desire to
defeat this game lef me.

‘ Donkey Kong Country 3 on
. ae re)

Only the umpteenth spin-
off of the: original, this is ube
another. mission impossible
monkeys, sans plumber
Flaunting ° their stup =; Py
icks, . the fe idl
are-on a rescue mission yet
again. The redundancy o
these games is batfling. Its the
same old: same, old with just

ia. hy new stuff to be intrigu-
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