Dead Ball Zone [U] ISO
Description :
Dead Ball Zone is a Futuristic
Sports game, developed by Rage Software and published by GT Interactive,
which was released in 1998.
When originality is a factor, sports games definitely stand alone as
being quite possibly the single most inflexible genre. Developers of
sports games are obsessed about recreating the realism of the sport, and
that really doesn't leave a lot of room for new ideas to be tried out.
Someone at Rage Software was rather gutsy when they handed over an idea
for a new sports game based on a completely fictional sport. Dead Ball
Zone may not have been a major success, but if it had actually been
marketed properly there's no reason why it couldn't have been.
Dead Ball Zone, as mentioned above, is based on a fictional sport. This sport has similarities to handball, but with one major exception - it is exceptionally violent and bloody. Players on the field are regularly knocked out or even killed while playing the game. The backstory to the game is that prisons are pitting prisoners against each other in this sport, and local, national, even international leagues have been set up for it. The game sees you taking a team from their local league through the ranks until they can come top of the international league.
The game is fast-paced and frantic. Throw the flaming ball quickly or your player will be challenged and will almost certainly be dispossessed and taken to the ground. As far as the violence goes, there are seemingly no rules. Players can (and will) punch or headbutt their opponents to get the ball. They can even kick their opponent in the nether regions or pick them up and smash their head into the ground with a devastating piledriver. But the full-contact physical abuse doesn't end there - you can optionally bring in weapons; guns, chainsaws and bombs are at your disposal. If players take too much damage they'll start to vomit - this is an indication that they're in trouble and need to be substituted. If a vomiting player takes some more damage there's a good chance that he'll be knocked out. If he takes enough damage he won't just be knocked out - he'll be killed. When this happens, the announcer will call out "Fatality", and (if you've chosen it in the options) you can see a replay of the fatal blow.
The graphics are very eye-catching - the dull and drab arena floor is a great contrast to the bright colours of the players' uniforms and all the flashy electronic stuff around the arena (there's some sort of electric field around the arena presumably there to speed up play and to keep the prisoners from getting too far away).
For the most part the sounds are bone-crunchingly brilliant. The only ones I think could have been better are the sounds for the gun and bomb, which are both slightly poor.
Gameplay: 10/10
I'm not usually a fan of fast-paced games, but Dead Ball Zone's bloody violence mixed with the sport is a fantastic combination put together very well.
Story: 7/10
The backstory to the game was really in place more for the purposes of giving the player an idea of how the sport came into being rather than actually having an active hand in the game, but it's still done quite well. It's original, at the very least.
Graphics: 9/10
Sharp, crisp, clean...watch the character models bend over as they spew their guts out figuratively then watch their blood splattered all over the arena as their guts are sliced to pieces with a chainsaw, literally. The ball, doused in flames, has a trail of flames which you can see as the ball is thrown. Everything is well-drawn, well-animated. There's not much wrong with the graphics.
Sound: 8/10
Punch your opponent in the face and hear them grunt in pain. You hear everything from the revving of the chainsaw to the explosion as the ball hits the screen that marks the goal, and it's all very crisp. The only downsides are that the music can sometimes be a little annoying, and guns and bombs sound rather weak in relation to the devastation that you cause with them.
Playtime: 9/10
Each game may only last a matter of minutes (each quarter can last between 30 seconds and 2 minutes 30 seconds, meaning that matches can be between 2 minutes and 10 minutes), but there are lots of teams to play against in each league. Once you've completed the league phase, you've still got to win the playoffs in order to earn promotion to the league above. You can also take your team from the league and use them in single matches, like using your Master League team in Exhibition Mode in Pro Evolution Soccer.
Replayability: 10/10
It's a sports game; do you really need to hear more than that? OK, there are dozens of teams to use in the league. Completed the league with Voodoo? Try to do it with Full Kontakt...there are also teams to unlock, including the near-unstoppable Marines and Cyborgs.
Overall Rating: 53/60 = 8.8/10 = 9/10
Dead Ball Zone is a fantastic game, but it failed in the market because of fear. DBZ was a new idea, and publishers associate new ideas with risk, and GT Interactive must have reckoned that DBZ had too much risk associated with it. This is a prime example showing that new ideas and unique, original games can work.
Dead Ball Zone, as mentioned above, is based on a fictional sport. This sport has similarities to handball, but with one major exception - it is exceptionally violent and bloody. Players on the field are regularly knocked out or even killed while playing the game. The backstory to the game is that prisons are pitting prisoners against each other in this sport, and local, national, even international leagues have been set up for it. The game sees you taking a team from their local league through the ranks until they can come top of the international league.
The game is fast-paced and frantic. Throw the flaming ball quickly or your player will be challenged and will almost certainly be dispossessed and taken to the ground. As far as the violence goes, there are seemingly no rules. Players can (and will) punch or headbutt their opponents to get the ball. They can even kick their opponent in the nether regions or pick them up and smash their head into the ground with a devastating piledriver. But the full-contact physical abuse doesn't end there - you can optionally bring in weapons; guns, chainsaws and bombs are at your disposal. If players take too much damage they'll start to vomit - this is an indication that they're in trouble and need to be substituted. If a vomiting player takes some more damage there's a good chance that he'll be knocked out. If he takes enough damage he won't just be knocked out - he'll be killed. When this happens, the announcer will call out "Fatality", and (if you've chosen it in the options) you can see a replay of the fatal blow.
The graphics are very eye-catching - the dull and drab arena floor is a great contrast to the bright colours of the players' uniforms and all the flashy electronic stuff around the arena (there's some sort of electric field around the arena presumably there to speed up play and to keep the prisoners from getting too far away).
For the most part the sounds are bone-crunchingly brilliant. The only ones I think could have been better are the sounds for the gun and bomb, which are both slightly poor.
Gameplay: 10/10
I'm not usually a fan of fast-paced games, but Dead Ball Zone's bloody violence mixed with the sport is a fantastic combination put together very well.
Story: 7/10
The backstory to the game was really in place more for the purposes of giving the player an idea of how the sport came into being rather than actually having an active hand in the game, but it's still done quite well. It's original, at the very least.
Graphics: 9/10
Sharp, crisp, clean...watch the character models bend over as they spew their guts out figuratively then watch their blood splattered all over the arena as their guts are sliced to pieces with a chainsaw, literally. The ball, doused in flames, has a trail of flames which you can see as the ball is thrown. Everything is well-drawn, well-animated. There's not much wrong with the graphics.
Sound: 8/10
Punch your opponent in the face and hear them grunt in pain. You hear everything from the revving of the chainsaw to the explosion as the ball hits the screen that marks the goal, and it's all very crisp. The only downsides are that the music can sometimes be a little annoying, and guns and bombs sound rather weak in relation to the devastation that you cause with them.
Playtime: 9/10
Each game may only last a matter of minutes (each quarter can last between 30 seconds and 2 minutes 30 seconds, meaning that matches can be between 2 minutes and 10 minutes), but there are lots of teams to play against in each league. Once you've completed the league phase, you've still got to win the playoffs in order to earn promotion to the league above. You can also take your team from the league and use them in single matches, like using your Master League team in Exhibition Mode in Pro Evolution Soccer.
Replayability: 10/10
It's a sports game; do you really need to hear more than that? OK, there are dozens of teams to use in the league. Completed the league with Voodoo? Try to do it with Full Kontakt...there are also teams to unlock, including the near-unstoppable Marines and Cyborgs.
Overall Rating: 53/60 = 8.8/10 = 9/10
Dead Ball Zone is a fantastic game, but it failed in the market because of fear. DBZ was a new idea, and publishers associate new ideas with risk, and GT Interactive must have reckoned that DBZ had too much risk associated with it. This is a prime example showing that new ideas and unique, original games can work.
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