IG Retro gave The Dreadnaught Factor a 8.0

[8th lutz]

http://retro.ign.com/articles/845/845250p1.html

 

It the Atari 5200 version.

[Atari5200]

it's well deserved, it's the pride of my 5200 and is in the machine as we speak. I love the game. It's fantastic, and the way they did the box and instructions is movie production quality.

 

I would recommend the game to anybody and if it wasn't for the repetitiveness of the game, it would easily be a 10 out of 10, but what game at that time wasn't repetitive?

[Jess Ragan]

Wow, that's quite a contrast from the guy on Video Game Critic, who gave it a D- or some other naff rating. For what it's worth, I think the game is great, especially if you have a joystick with trimmers. Push the vertical trimmer all the way down, and you can wipe out rows of cannons and thrusters with ease!

[jetset]

Wow, that's quite a contrast from the guy on Video Game Critic, who gave it a D- or some other naff rating.

 

Maybe the silly people at IGN actually PLAYED the game before writing a review.

Edited January 18, 2008 by jetset

[Gabriel]

Maybe the silly people at IGN actually PLAYED the game before writing a review.

 

Or, you know, it could just be because Activision is an 800lb advertising gorilla, and it might not be a good idea to associate a bad review with one of their games, even an ancient one like DF.

 

For the record, I think the game is fine. It underwhelms me in this day and age, but if I had ever owned it back in the day, I probably would have really liked it.

[8th lutz]

The reviewer actually owns an Atari 5200 and has the system for a very long time. He got the system before the Sega Master System came out.

Edited January 19, 2008 by 8th lutz

[jboypacman]

I havnt had a chance to play this one yet but i will at somepoint down the line looks like a cool game from the screen shots.

[Gregory DG]

Looks like it got similar scores to the TAT Review. The review score was 90% with an average score of 83%.

[+Cafeman]

A *new* 5200 game review on a major site? Since when did that start! I wasn't even aware of "Ign Retro". Good!

 

This was a game I never owned back in the day, but I have tried it on emulation a few times. This review shows a person who gave the game some real time and found it to be good - I will play it next time I hook up my 5200, w/a RAM cart since I have no cart of D.F.

Edited January 19, 2008 by Cafeman