This is a game that brings back the feel goods for me.  When I bought a 3DO it was after I joined the Marines. I shipped to boot camp the day after this game was released. I liked this one a lot for some reason, it was just so different than what I was used to on Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis. BattleSport was obviously more fun in multiplayer but it still offered a decent challenge in single player mode. Critics of the time raked it over the coals. For those of us that were just playing games to have fun, it did not get much better than this. While I understand it is quite a flawed game by today’s standards, for the time, this was pretty cool.

Don’t call Battlesport futuristic soccer

BattleSport was like 3D one on one soccer. Except you are in a hovercraft and can blow your opponent up. Scoring worked the same but that goal could be in some devious locations. When playing with a friend is where the true fun of Battlesport comes to light. It is almost more fun to ignore the scoring and simply blow each up as much as possible. Great times. Also a great way to end a friendship- almost as bad as Super Mario Kart on Super Nintendo was.

Battle of the ports

BattleSport hit the PlayStation console, and Windows on the same day, in June 1997. The Sega Saturn release hit one year after the 3DO release. The PlayStation version saw reviewers panning it for not being needed or or all that interesting. I beg to differ. BattleSport was a great little game to just sit down with. Add in a friend to burn an hour or two vegging out with some anger inducing gaming. Without a second player the game does lose something.

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