Classic Game Room reviews FERRARI F355 on Dreamcast

Classic Game Room season 1, 10/6/2000. Long before Gran Turismo 5 vs. Forza 2 there was Ferrari F355 Challenge on the Sega Dreamcast. This game was a direct port from the Arcade version of F-355 and made for a brilliant driving game on the DC.

This isn't the Magnum PI Ferrari 308, this is Ferrari 355.

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[kingstonlj]

The Dreamcast has hi-res texture compression, which meant that a dev had 64mbs to play with. This compression was a really big positive.

The actual image quality of the DCs best games is better than PS2. The PS2 has 32mbs to play with and low-res textures etc.. It has to use tricks to make environments - which leads to that gritty blocky look.

Overall, the DC was never pushed, so there could have been even better visuals on the system. The PS2 had DVD - and that's what people wanted.

[rustyshackleferd22]

wish people would have listened and bout a dreamcast. still sad didnt get to see its full potential and not just 2 years worth of games. still play mine. DO SHENMUE. think ive asked about 15 times now

[GonoManiax]

bleh, there's no point comparing a console that had less than 3 years of strong support (and got mostly crappy PsOne ports from lazy programmers) with another one that had like 8 years of exclusive games.

[MrWLangers]

A skies of arcadia review would be cool

[MrNazreen92]

i ever hear about this video! but by the way ferrari f355 my friend have this car in real life i not joke is true my friend buy this car? hmm man today mark voice over 13 year now mark sound same?? love that

[Yijral]

BASTARDO!!!!

[Celsus1984]

355 F1 My favorite car (after F40 of course =))

[solidskirk]

@rustyshackleferd22 Agreed please do a shenmue review damn i love my Dreamcast CGR FOREVER WoooooooooooooooooHooooooooooo­oooooo!!!!

[InstinctualJealousy]

@Caparzoshow This pisses people off because the PS2's spec difference isn't near as large as the difference seen on screen. The Dreamcast wasn't pushed like the PS2 was- and that's obvious. Numbers and visuals aren't enough. The Dreamcast could only be compared properly if it lived as it should have.

[InstinctualJealousy]

@SuperSZ Multiple SKUs is a confusing thing- and also- for Sega to maintain compatibility with older systems- games would have to remain on GD-ROM. No game storage benefit. Most importantly- Sega simply didn't have the money to do it. Even when the DC came out- a DVD drive would be expensive as hell to get off of another vendor. Sony were lucky because it was a year later- and they could get their drives from themselves! Cutting the middleman price out almost totally I'm sure.

[rodsk8dude]

I was wanting to know what's the song at the end of the video, that starts at 7:51, though I don't have a name, it apparently is song number 4 in the game soundtrack.

[Carsonj13]

Well goddamn, mark. If only people had YOUR mindset: Go with the console that's the cheapest and has the best GAMES, NOT FEATURES, GRAPHICS, etc.! I'm proud to say I got my Dreamcast Christmas '99. Fact is, the Dreamcast did not fail those who thought it would flop eventually. THEY failed the Dreamcast.