Bloody Wolf vs. M.E.R.C.S. - Which is better?

[fragmare]

Happy holidays, galam!  <3  ^_^ <3

[Black Tiger]

Bloody Wolf<X------------------------>Mercs

[nodtveidt]

Talk about your all-time no-brainers here...

[Otaking]

Bloody Wolf is a great game but probably due to nostalgia I'm gonna have to disOBEY and choose Mercs.
 

[Ninja Spirit]

  

Really?

[Tatsujin]

mercs on what?

[ccovell]

Mercs is better produced, executed, has far better graphics, and awesome music.  I'd say it's superior in almost every way -- but then I remembered that Mercs is also brainless and gets boring fast.  BW has more strategy and technique on each stage, and the ridiculous dialogue (esp. in the arcade) endears it more to me.

[Black Tiger]

mercs on what?

SEGA DRIVE

[fragmare]

Personally, I think, all things considered, these games are pretty well equal except for one thing... MERCS HAS DAMN 2 PLAYER MODE!  Yea, I know the TG16 Bloody Wolf has extra stages, but c'mon, a 2p mode could still have been managed.  My vote goes to Mercs on this one.  DisOBEYed, sorry.

[A Black Falcon]

Uh, Genesis Mercs doesn't have a two player mode, it's a one player only game.

That said, I've played a lot of Mercs and it's an absolutely fantastic game, one of the best run & guns of the time.  Bloody Wolf, though, I'm not sure... I haven't played it nearly as much, but what I have played of it doesn't seem nearly as impressive.  So probably Mercs is better.

However, Legend of the Valkyrie... that game is probably in the same genre, and it's every bit as good as Mercs.

[Black Tiger]

Personally, I think, all things considered, these games are pretty well equal except for one thing... MERCS HAS DAMN 2 PLAYER MODE!  Yea, I know the TG16 Bloody Wolf has extra stages, but c'mon, a 2p mode could still have been managed.  My vote goes to Mercs on this one.  DisOBEYed, sorry.

Bloody Wolf is a 2 player game. Mercs is a 2 player game.

Console ports of each are 1 player only.

[Bonknuts]

Personally, I think, all things considered, these games are pretty well equal except for one thing... MERCS HAS DAMN 2 PLAYER MODE!  Yea, I know the TG16 Bloody Wolf has extra stages, but c'mon, a 2p mode could still have been managed.  My vote goes to Mercs on this one.  DisOBEYed, sorry.

Bloody Wolf is a 2 player game. Mercs is a 2 player game.

Console ports of each are 1 player only.

 I hacked the arcade rom of BW to run on the PC-Engine (though with glitches). It's been forever, but doesn't the arcade version of BW support 2 players simultaneously? Can't remember if I hacked the arcade rom to support the TAP or not. That was like.. 6 years ago.

[Arkhan]

I HAVE A BONER.

[ParanoiaDragon]

Personally, I think, all things considered, these games are pretty well equal except for one thing... MERCS HAS DAMN 2 PLAYER MODE!  Yea, I know the TG16 Bloody Wolf has extra stages, but c'mon, a 2p mode could still have been managed.  My vote goes to Mercs on this one.  DisOBEYed, sorry.

Bloody Wolf is a 2 player game. Mercs is a 2 player game.

Console ports of each are 1 player only.

 I hacked the arcade rom of BW to run on the PC-Engine (though with glitches). It's been forever, but doesn't the arcade version of BW support 2 players simultaneously? Can't remember if I hacked the arcade rom to support the TAP or not. That was like.. 6 years ago.

Yeah, I have that somewhere in my archives, though I never checked it for 2 playerability. :/

[awack]

I cant decide so just to close so  im just going to pick Red Alert arguably the best over head military action game on the three 16bit systems.