Missile Command 3D

The Good
WOW! This game is incredible. I found the 3D polygon graphics of Virtual Missile Command to be perhaps the best I've seen on the Jaguar. There are lots of detailed polygons - both shaded and textured. The frame rate is decent, even when lots of bombs and explosions are filling the screen. I'm extremely impressed with the graphics of virtual - it compares very well with PS1 or N64 games. If you ever see someone bashing the Jaguar for poor graphics, MC3D would be a good game to show them. I find the 'boss' shoot-outs at the end of each wave particularly impressive. The control input is actually not bad: this kind of a targeting game is really meant for a trackball and not a D-pad, but the Jaguar controller still seems to work okay. Even the music and sound effects are also great.

The Bad
I don't have anything negative to say about MC3D. At first I thought it was a little too difficult, but once I got the feel of this game I found that it was just the right difficulty to be hard but not too frustrating.

The Bottom Line
I'm impressed with MISSILE COMMAND; it has both good shoot-em-up gameplay and shows off the Jaguar's graphics abilities. I would rate it an 8.5 out of 10.