Highest Rated Consumer Review by the Community
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community Apr 18, 2006
Pros: multiplayer, great action, decent story, challenging
Cons: repetitive gameplay, short, unbalanced races, subpar graphics and voice acting
Summary: Armada was originally intended on being the one of the first multiplayer online games for the Dreamcast. Even more exciting was how it was also going to be a MMORPG or massively multiplayer online roleplaying game like Phantasy Star Online and World of ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 4, 2013
Pros: Great game concept, vast depths of space to explore, fun to play, good voice acting
Cons: Little to no story or character development to speak of at all
Summary: Armada for the Dreamcast is an interesting space shooter in the style of asteroids combined with an RPG which is in the style of Diablo. The idea on paper at least sounds like a recipe for a truly awesome game but ultimately it's all about how all the ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 10, 2001
Pros: Huge, lots of enemies, addicting at times, multiplayer
Cons: Control, repetitive, familiar objectives
Summary: Story: Although Armada tries a little too hard at trying to be a plot driven game, it ultimately lacks substance. It’s your typical human and other types of beings saving civilization. Planets and the final frontier are being attacked ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 5, 2001
Pros: shoot stuff
Cons: repetative
Summary: Man has found company in the Universe, the Armada. Mankind rejoiced untill these new aliens, which technology far surpassing ours, began to destroy cites and kill millions.
The survivors of attack fled to new worlds in variuos space ships and ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 25, 2000
Pros: Great Idea, Plenty of Playtime & Lots of Races to Play As
Cons: Less than inspired gameplay, repetitive mission objectives.
Summary: Overview: No genre goes back as far as the shooter. The first computer game, the 2 player Space War, was a shooter, with subsequent titles, such as the classic Asteroids, being more complete versions of that original concept. In many ways, Armada could ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 22, 2000
Pros: good multiplayer
Cons: decent graphics, shoddy sound
Summary: When you look at the box of this game and see that it is set out in space, you start thinking, "Why in the world would I want buy another cheesy space shooter?" I'll tell you why.
First of all, this is not a cheesy space shooter. If ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 5, 2000
Pros: Graphics, Interesting Idea.
Cons: No online play, Low replay value
Summary: I bought this game the day it came out. Reading the back cover made it look fun and entertaining. I'm not disappointed with the game, but it certainly hasn't been played since the first week i bought it. This is one of those games you either hate it or ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 3, 2000
Pros: It's great to rent
Cons: This game just gets boring!
Summary: This game is a lot of fun at first with some pretty cool graphics and weapons that get better and better, huge bosses with some very creative attacks, but there just isn't something right about this game. I know what it is, almost every level is the ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 24, 2000
Pros: graphics, concept
Cons: boring
Summary: Certainly most people consider this game the sleeper hit of the year for dreamcast, but I disagree, I personally don’t see where all the excitement comes from. I thought this game, while it looked ok, was utterly boring, sure I’ve heard that once you get ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 31, 2000
Pros: the whole game
Cons: nothing
Summary: If you like sci fi or rpgs you'll defiantly like this game. I played for just an hour and couldn't put the controller down. You start off with a choice of races and let mayhem begin. First your a small ship being knocked around, but you slowly gain ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 14, 2000
Pros: somewhat addicting gameplay, good multiplayer
Cons: actual game is too short, then you are stuck gaining levels
Summary: Upon first loading up Armada, the possibilitites of the game intrigued me. A living, breathing universe with endless planets and beings to discover intrigued me. Unfortunately, after a few hours of play, the games limitations shined through. ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 12, 2000
Pros: Long, fast, fun, lots to explore
Cons: Repetitive
Summary: Dreamcasts first space shooter is an addictive game that is just fun to play with some friends or even alone despite some repetitive gameplay...
THE GAME:
From the start you pick your race from six each with different ships. You then ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 11, 2000
Pros: to many to listt
Cons: there are none
Summary: Yup, you heard it one of the best space adventure games
is finally out! This game is truly a classic, one of the
best i ever played no contest. start off by picking a
race of aliens. then go into space and build up your ship.
Buy from ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 10, 2000
Pros: Pros?...well.....umm.......hmm..
Cons: Cons?...well..the whole review is cons...
Summary: I picked this up used. Surprised that a DC game was that easily found at that price at the time. MISTAKE...there was a reason this one was in the reject bin. This is hands down one of the worst I have ever encountered. I was let down from the get go, ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 25, 2000
Pros: Multiplayer
Cons: Single player
Summary: Take the gameplay of Asteroids, add RPG/adventure elements, and make the asteroids sentient and ticked off, and you have Armada. This title, originally set up of a massive networked launch title, was changed at the last moment as Sega's network plans ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 25, 2000
Pros: It's frickin huge.
Cons: It's too frickin huge sometimes.
Summary: The main objective of this game is to follow the instructions of the people in your community. They direct you on what has to be done, and where you need to go to do it.
GRAPHICS: The graphics are quite well, not spectacular, but what do ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 29, 2000
Pros: Really fun as a multiplayer game. RPG feel.
Cons: Boring in single player. Destined to eventually get put aside.
Summary: After buying Armada and playing it for a while, I couldn't see myself playing it very often. Frankly, I just didn't get it. The manual is horrible and I didn't really understand what I was supposed to be doing. I played it for about an hour or two and ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 21, 2000
Pros: 1)Hours of fun 2)Different races 3)Multiplayer 4)Big map 5)Pretty decent sound effects
Cons: 1)Where is the music 2)Should of had better graphics. 3)Unable to split the screen in multiplayer
Summary: Aramada is a good game. Many people at first glance would think of their typical shooter but Armada brings it to a new level. It can get boring after a while but what game isn't. This game will definitely give you hours of fun. It takes a while ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 13, 2000
Pros: multiplayer
Cons: 1 player is boring
Summary: On the package, Armada is marketed as an Action-RPG, but this game is a shooter to the core. Choose from six different races with various craft attributes and head out into space to take out the Armada hordes and eventually unlock the secret behind this ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 9, 2000
Pros: Multiplayer, long
Cons: Repetitive gameplay
Summary: I read reviews for this game that described it as "Gauntlet in space" or "a mixture between Gauntlet and Asteroids." While I have always been a fan of the gauntlet series, I thought this game would be perfect for me. After playing ... read more
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