Classic Game Room - NOVASTORM Panasonic 3DO review

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NOVASTORM video review for Panasonic 3DO. Classic Game Room reviews NOVASTORM ffor Panasonic 3DO from Psygnosis released in 1994, a FMV style space ship shooter like Space Harrier meets Z-Buffered digital images and 90's techno.

[@kingstonlj]

This is probably the best fmv game you'll find, as it's fast paced and very enjoyable. I really like the atmosphere and visuals. It's very similar to Total Eclipse, which uses polygons, and is better in some ways. Both games show that the 3DO was a cool machine for its time. I will be playing this game again.

[@jaynukem1929]

I like how the art style of this game looks. I don't think I've ever seen a game that looks like this.

[@retrostansolo]

I remember seeing this for the first time on Gamesmaster in the uk and my jaw hit the floor. Then soon after I brought a 3DO FZ1 and still have it to this day. Under rated console.

[@davetownersville]

I love that you do 3DO reviews.

[@BaarBear]

Thanks for reminding me about this forgotten classic. I dug out my Psone copy and went a couple rounds with it recently. Very nice.

[@ironchef3500]

Love me some 3D0 reviews, keep em coming!

[@supermahmoud]

OMG ! best quote ever : "...the game is held together with a scotch tape !" Mark awesome as always !

[@spiderjerusalem100]

A full motion video game that actually looks very badass.

[@pedaleou]

I had it for PC and have played it a lot! Great classic for 1994!... ty!

[@treksterjsc]

Great review as always. It wold great to see you review Super Wing Commander for the 3DO.

[@klarekante3363]

great game! i have it on pc and play it since the mid-90s from time to time :-)

[@bignorm77]

Another awesome review, for an awesome game,

[@tomacco3k]

Wow. I absolutely forgot about this game! I owned it for PC and I remember me and 5 friends taking turns playing it. At that time, we thought graphics could never get more realistic than that.I miss the time...

[@MrHiu2]

The shooting sound effect sounds very similar to the sound that plays for the Daily Double on Jeopardy.

[@swishpronoob]

I remember playing this game on PC and loving it.

[@uselessDM]

I can imagine this was mindblowing back in 1994, it even looks pretty good by todays standards.

[@FlorisDVijfde]

It sounded and looked as cool as inconsistent...some parts were great but not everything was convincingly integrated...back then they started experimented with integrating live action filmed scenes with animation and it didn't work very well. See games like 7th Guest (enjoyable puzzle game though). A much tighter art direction would have helped but these guys were clearly going for a simple shooter game in an ultra cool package. You felt a bit cheated with the background camera on rails, not having much control and just shooting at stuff with a pre-rendered backdrop. The Rebel Assault games from the wonderful Lucasarts were probably the best in this genre.

[@sglider]

I seriously don't miss the FMV obsessed early 90s and don't care to revisit them either.

[@GlenTindal]

This game was epic! I think it was one of the BEST shooters for the 3DO. The music and the gameplay was totally awesome despite the slow ups. This game I think was ahead of its time. *sigh* I miss my 3DO.

[@gbrendel]

"I think the spreadshot is the most effective." This applies in so many games.

[@jwaffe]

I have this for the PC, it's more advanced (you get "credits" from enemies which you can collect and use to buy powerups). The music isn't CD quality, but it's still very good. I never knew this was made for 3DO, but it makes sense, considering the cutscenes and gameplay style. On the PC, the cutscenes don't even work, they are jerky.

[@pet0023]

i love these videos

[@clouds5]

Ah this is exactly the kind of game that i played back in the day :D Reminds me alot of Descent and those Fury games!

[@Owlpunk]

Damn, that spaceship looks cool! It's like some sort of futuristic F4 Phantom - which, as everybody knows, is the coolest-looking jetfighter of all times.

[@8bvg300]

I had this for the mega CD. Not too bad on there... Though the usual murky dithered graphics did leave you scratching your head sometimes, as to quite what you were looking at. 3do looks way clearer

[@santisven]

Star Wars Rebel Assault II on the PS One, remember taht one? I actually had fun with it!!!

[@J.Crooner]

WOW HOW DID I OVERLOOK THIS GAME CLEARLY IT DESERVES A SEAT @THE PANASONIC 3DO TABLE👍😁💪😎💪😉

[@Tool0GT92]

Man, the 3DO was awesome.

[@1shoryuken]

gotta love that IDM music.

[@kevin12567]

What's amazing is that today's consoles can generate realtime-rendered 3D graphics that look more realistic than the CGI in this game. But these graphics were awesome for the time it came out.

[@entity8019]

From the same guys that made Microcosm - and it's VERY similar. Microcosm didn't have the z-buffer though.

[@spiff2268]

I had this on PS1. I don't think it had those cut scenes but it was a great game none the less.

[@GunshipHero]

The visuals on the 3do version are really slick, but the soundtrack of the PC version (by Rik Ede) is epic and gives the music of this version a run for the money. You have to search it up on youtube. The PC soundtrack of this game is legend.

[@admtm24]

3DO. So awesome.

[@ScootsNBhistorybehindthegaming]

Awesome

[@xx1simon1xx]

@vittau I LOVED that game!!! flying trough space for 5 minutes just to get youre ass kicked when you arive never was more fun^^

[@vittau]

This is just like Rebel Assault. Btw, Lucas Arts should do an X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter sequel. Just imagine how awesome it could be with today's hardware...

[@sundiata17]

hey that music was pretty kick-ass

[@Streecer151]

@jopeteus I concur.

[@skymonkeyGTFO]

i swear to god for a minute i thought the spaceship was gonna crash into that pillar in the opening cutscene... :P

[@TboneTenEighties]

Looks like a cool game.

[@TheMarcodiator]

This game was EPIC.

[@marcusmalone]

FMV 'actors' FTW!!

[@DeSardet46]

This game looks awesome, great graphics, and anybody else thought at 0:57 " Obi Wan! NOOO"

[@LargeRedRizla]

Why did I spend all my time getting the Deus Ex Machina trophy when I could of been playing this masterpiece!

[@grimmah1978]

When will you review the 3DO hardware Mark? Im still waiting on that one!

[@vittau]

@girochin007 I kinda feel your pain. I actually don't have X-Wing, but I do have X-Wing Alliance and it doesn't work anymore either. =( You might wanna try DOSBox though. And X-Wing Alliance might work on VMWare (in a Win98 machine w/ HW acceleration), but I'm too lazy to try it.

[@KetwunsGamingPad]

@wolfmap Actually I thought it could be more realistic, since Doom and many FPS games came out in the 90s. I always told myself that some day, we will have facial recognition to completely mimic human and creature movements in video games, that we couldn't tell the difference between movie and video game quality.

[@centipede167]

Looks so 90's!

[@KetwunsGamingPad]

3DO is very underated, and is unfairly associated with the CDi. It actually had a decent library for its time. Definitely better video quality than the Sega Mega CD and CDi. I would say it was the first to get the best ports of arcade or PC games. It's too bad the expensive price made it lose to other systems. It also has a Mega Drive like gamepad, which I guess is good, but I still would prefer SNES styled like today's controllers.

[@dave4shmups]

I own this for my 3DO and it's fantastic! Does anyone know if the PS1 version has different stages??

[@FastTquick]

Hey, Mark! How about reviewing Star Wars Rebel Assault for the 3DO?

[@MrZedKay]

tht guys a legend!!!!!!! we need to find out his account

[@funkophone]

@shaurz More like how badass.

[@roboconker]

I played it on the PSONE, and it was awesome and it looks a lot better, but the first disc stopped working and i couldn't play it anymore :(

[@Seko1231]

they shuld make a psp or 3ds port to this game, that would be awesone!

[@Deathdealer208]

Anyone else thought the logo at first said Nounstorm? FMV + spelling games would be great.

[@TheTrueGoatWizard]

This would've been an aswesome sight back in '94.

[@qmto]

Reminds me of MicroCosm on the Sega CD, a game which you should review. I could donate my copy if you want it.

[@jwaffe]

I want to correct part of what I said: "The music isn't CD quality, but it's still very good. " The PC music is not SAMPLED music, like an MP3 (I guess that it uses a tracker format, xm or .it), but it is excellent anyway, much better than the 3DO's soundtrack.

[@alexgameroom]

aka Scavenger 4 on the FM Towns Marty

[@baconbrain234]

I think this is related to Microcosm on the sega CD.

[@lisamariefan]

Man, the 3DO version feels so much different than the DOS version, especially the soundtrack. I'll take the DOS soundtrack any day, please.

[@Silanda]

So would I, but the 3DO version is interesting in its own right. Weirdly, although the 3DO version is a tweaked port of the original Fm Towns version, it has a different soundtrack, while the Sega CD port has a conversion of the FM Towns soundtrack but plays differently.

[@undergrounduprising]

I have the Dos version of this game and it seems quite different from this version. While the level design appears the same, the HUD looks completely different, the soundtrack is different and there's not as many cutscenes

[@omarcortes88]

For great justice. Review Zero Wing!

[@vittau]

@mspeter97 Unfortunately not, but it's not much like the X-Wing series though.

[@Synathidy]

Did anyone else get the reference to the Scorpions "Rhythm of Love" music video? I did. And I wasn't even alive when it came out.

[@gtasa2004]

Damn it!

[@lastvaquero]

For some reason..this game makes me think of Sewer Shark for the Sega CD *lol*

[@kaitsobato]

MY EARS ARE BEING POUNDED SO HARD, DAMNIT

[@Wampaa]

@gtvnetwork I was wondering that too.

[@Nextro09]

Reminds me of Total Eclipse

[@TopolinoPipulino]

this is why i like mark, someone like spoony or avgn would just be angry and not taking it seriously because its FMV game. but i bet mark would hate a game like make my video.

[@Wol1427]

got this on the playstation

[@xenoranger79]

This game's sound track sounds like CyberWar (a quazi-sequel to The Lawnmower Man)

[@mspeter97]

@vittau already tried Star Wars trilogy Arcade?

[@girochin007]

@vittau I would be happy if they just re-released X-Wing so it was playable on a current platform... Mostly because I paid $50 for the strategy guide, and the 3.5" floppies the game came on died, so I'm $100+ into that game already, and can't play it now.

[@mechanoid2k]

i believe this game was also released on sega cd

[@TenshiCat]

This game seems similar to Iridion 3D on the GBA

[@temujin1234]

3DO games are intriguing to me, probably because I couldn't afford one.

[@xXE4GLEyEXx]

@vittau yeah but nowadays everyone wants FPS COD type games ....... i WANT QUALITY

[@chacrawarrior]

3:20 use the force

[@roningarrison]

5:41, it's bane!

[@GodzillaXAbudAwwal]

what does this data grid think he is? edit station 1?!!?

[@Rhino-n-Chips]

'Mohammed from Quatar' is a really vauge if you consider it's the most common name there, It's like saying this game was given by 'John from America'

[@DrPhibes10]

Dam it it's not on the app store

[@linuxviking]

@vittau We need a new Rouge Squadron

[@e11aguru]

I had this for PC. Really hard. I didn't get very far.

[@BitchFunky317]

Remember guys, this was supposed to be the FUTURE of gaming at the time!! LOL!!

[@QwertyGirl789]

The font kinda makes it look like "NOUNSTORM".

[@khhnator]

the games form that time are weird, becouse all the cgs they seemed to be so beyond what we had at the time, but when actualy they were the same or worse and nowdays when we actualy have games that go beyond, we play retrogames :PPP

[@KetwunsGamingPad]

@TheChubbybird haha, no.

[@TherealHaaku]

whats that blue flying crap ?

[@BrooksterMax]

Had the MegaCD version and man it looked ugly compared to this much more colourful version. Might just dig it out and give it a spin again :)

[@vittau]

@eyesofnova Nah, Rogue Squadron is arcade-ish. It's still a pretty good game though. But the X-Wing games are kinda like a "simulation", if that makes any sense...

[@JackTheDeergal]

Microcosm?

[@Maofish666]

Mohammed from quatar is freaking loaded

[@SoHailusive]

How did I get here?

[@synthem9389]

i think it's safe to say that it's probably Mohammad who sent it to you

[@johnnysmith6918]

scorpions rhythm of love lol totally?

[@GlibSweaterVest]

@PioloAskal2009 Someone... make a call to Moosejaw.