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Life's no beach for Ecco. Thankfully, Ecco has his usual skills to make life easier. Sonar enables him to communicate with other dolphins in cryptic, hard-to-fathom messages. He can also access a Sonar Map that shows him locations of food, air, and enemies.

Finally, Ecco moves and responds to controls well. Ecco's games have always been wonderful to look at, and this one doesn't disappoint. Lavish colors and details fill every screen, making every level worth reaching just for the graphics alone. Eventually, the levels become redundant and start to look the same as you'd expect, since there's only so much you can see underwater.

However, when Ecco leaps into the air and does a quick, graceful somersault, it's a moment of pure Dolphin delight. The sounds approach what's been done before, but they don't reach those previous lofty heights. The same dreamy, astral music you've come to know and love tends to drone on tinnily after awhile.

The special effects are as good as ever, with lots of boings and splashes creating a realistic undersea environment. Despite all its attributes and political correctness, Ecco the Dolphin is not for everyone. Gamers who like lots of variety and intense action will be disenchanted with Ecco's slow and repetitive game play. What's intellectually stimulating to some players will be boring to others.

For fans of Ecco, though, he's still the king of the sea. Ecco The Dolphin was released to major critical acclaim. Some of the gaudier console mags you know the type Ecco, they said, was a ground-breaking departure from the console gaming norm. And it was brilliant fun to boot. Well, that's what they said. What I say is this: Ecco The Dolphin was, is, and ever shall be The dolphin animation is very pretty, I grant you, but as for the game itself - Christ, what a chore it is. Swim over here.

Swim over there. Push that rock under that thing. Push it the other way. Find that crystal. WhatsApp Messenger. Talking Tom Cat. Clash of Clans. Subway Surfers. TubeMate 3. Google Play. Navient student loan settlement. GameStop in-store PS5 restock. N95, KN95, KF94 masks. Windows Windows. Most Popular. New Releases. Desktop Enhancements. Networking Software. Trending from CNET. Download Now. Remember, dolphins are mammals, too! For months rumors have floated through the industry in regards to a mysterious Genesis game called Dolphin.

It's official -- Dolphin's breaking the surface and Sega's set to make quite a splash with this innovative product! In this highly original game, you play Echo, a young Bottlenose Dolphin.

In what begins as a normal day, you're frolicking in the ocean with a school of your family and friends. Suddenly, a tremendous storm whips the waves into a froth. Echo resurfaces to discover his family missing. Dolphin takes you on a level adventure quest that spans oceans past and present, frozen seas beneath the Artie circle, a mythical ocean, and even one on another planet. As Echo, you must swim to search for your missing family. Along the way, you'll encounter a myriad of sea creatures, some friendly and some not.

Using video tape of real dolphins swimming, Sega's animated Echo in a way that's very realistic. Echo can swim, leap out of the water, flip in the air, catch fish to eat, fight unfriendly creatures with a Head Charge, and use Echo Location, also known as sonar.

Echo's sonar plays a major role in the game. He can use it to increase the strength of his Head Charge, talk to other dolphins or sea creatures, see a map of the area surrounding him, or read strange crystal-like glyphs for clues to his family's whereabouts.

If you think Dolphin sounds highly original and like nothing you've ever seen on a video game screen before, you're right. This game, developed by Sega in the U. This is one game that will be quite a catch. The dolphin is controlled through a side-scrolling aquatic level progression.

The game is known for its high difficulty level and according to the Official Nintendo Magazine, the Dolphin series is the only Sega game series to have sold more copies than the huge hit Sonic the Hedgehog series. The gameplay is the simple one of a side-scrolling game, with horizontal, diagonal and vertical movement. Ecco can attack enemies by running into them at high speeds and he can swim faster by tapping a certain button.

The speed can be maintained by holding the button down. The players can perform a spin in the air, but this is purely aesthetic and does not help the player achieve something. Ecco the Dolphin can also speak with other characters and interact with objects, and can also use echolocation, by holding down a specific button which generates a map of the area. Ecco is not able to touch any enemies in the game, unless he attacks them.

Otherwise he will sustain damage from any character, such as seahorses or giant octopodes. Even jumps out of the water were difficult to do. The game starts with Ecco swimming in his home bay, but he gets a challenge from a podmate to see how high into the air he can jump.

While in the air, a waterspout storm forms and sucks up all the life in the bay, but Ecco remains alive while also alone. Ecco then leaves the bay to search for his pod and contacts several dolphins that help him. The story ends with Ecco finding his pod again.

The version for Genesis was fairly popular and was voted with higher scores by the critics, than by the players on GameSpot. While the critics offered the game an average of 9. Browse games Game Portals. Install Game. Game review Downloads Screenshots 15 Cheats 2. Oh, You Beautiful Dolphin Porpoise with a Purpose As Ecco searches the deep blue sea, he picks up clues to his pod's whereabouts by talking to other sea creatures and by bouncing sonar off the 'Glyphs, crystallike remainders of Atlantis that act as undersea switchboards.

ProTips: Jump from the Jurassic pool and use your sonar to reach the Pteranadon to give you a much needed lift. To break certain rock obstacles in the Lagoon area, you must first find these stone-eating stars.

Push them along with your sonar.