Classic Game Room - AFTER BURNER III Sega CD review
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Published 2011-09-13
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After Burner III review. Classic Game Room reviews AFTER BURNER 3 for Sega CD. Pilot the F-14 Tomcat against waves of enemies in the third installment of Sega's popular After Burner series. While the game benefits from some of the enhanced audio and visuals offered by the Sega-CD add-on it suffers from some clunky game play that prevent it from being better than the first two games.
All Comments (21)
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The reason the gameplay is so different is because of the weird history behind the game. Its actually a port of an arcade game called Strike Fighter, which was a sequel the arcade game G-LOC: Air Battle, which itself was a spiritual successor to After Burner II. The reason it's called After Burner III is just for brand recognition, even though its more of a port of the sequel to the spiritual successor of After Burner than it is a true sequel. IMO, I would say that Climax is the true AB3.
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I like how the intro mentions the 'million dollar missiles', and then lets you never stop shooting them. It's a dream come true!
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I am very gratefull that you find the time to do all this video reviews
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This game has great music. If i ever would get a Sega CD i am gonna get this game for sure!
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You should make a video showing where you have all of your games and stuff
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Yup, this is basically the sequel to G-Loc Air Battle, but with the After Burner name because G-Loc didn't exactly do well (and was a spiritual successor to After Burner as well). They REALLY did do an excellent job of producing the music, though. It's super hard to reproduce the overall feel of the crunchy synth the arcade cabinet had while tossing real instruments into the mix.
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Must have been -so- cool to play this back in '92 =D
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Best part of this game is the music, its so damn good!
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The voice over of Afterburner II is Ron David, the same narrator of the TV Program of Discovery Channel: WINGS
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This video brought to you by "Mark has fun wit the sound test menu!"
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Love the music
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Yeah, I remember a friend having this game long ago; we expected it to be 90% as good as the arcade original; the music is 200% of the arcade, but the game play is less then 50%, CGR got it right on the money with this review.
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This game is actually a home port of the arcade game G-LOC but not many knew about that game. More people knew the name "After Burner". There is even a fully rotatable arcade version called R-360.
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that was the most awesome intro I heard in ages I suggest some hardstyle instead of DnB.
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PUMP UP THE JAM,PUMP IT UP WHILST YOUR FEET ARE STOMPIN'!
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OMG LARRY FROM FINLAND!! Opr is it Lauri...?
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@S0ryiu Yup, figured as much. :p
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@jopeteus It's Lauri.
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AFTERBURNER CLIMAX FTW
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I would watch a CGR After Burner 3 sound test megamix for about three hours before I clicked away.
