Sega Bass Fishing 2

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Sega Bass Fishing 2
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Developer(s) WOW Entertainment
Publisher(s) Sega
Series Sega Bass Fishing
Platform(s) Dreamcast
Release
Genre(s) Sports
Mode(s) Single-player video game

Sega Bass Fishing 2, known in Japan as Get Bass 2 [lower-alpha 1] , is a video game developed by WOW Entertainment and published by Sega for the Dreamcast in 2001. It is the sequel to Sega Bass Fishing .

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Gameplay

While the game can be played with the standard Dreamcast controller, it was designed to support the console's Fishing Controller. The game is single-player. [3]

Development

Sega Bass Fishing 2 was developed as a sequel to Sega Bass Fishing . Originally an arcade game, its Dreamcast port in 1999 had been unexpectedly successful. [3] [4]

Reception

Sega Bass Fishing 2 received generally favorable reviews, according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. [5] Edge cited the game's emphasis on simulation over arcade elements as a downside, compared to the arcade style of the first one. [6] Conversely, GameSpot lauded the game as "a model example of what sequels should be." [3] However, Eric Bratcher of NextGen said that the game was "More realistic, but not more fun. This is easily Sega's deepest fishing title, but it's alternately too hard or too easy." [11] In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of 27 out of 40. [7] Four-Eyed Dragon of GamePro said, "The sequel to one of the best fishing games ever unfortunately delivers nothing but a fishy stench instead of a prize catch-of-the-day." [12] [lower-alpha 2]

See also

Notes

  1. Japanese: ゲットバス2, Hepburn: Getto Basu Tsū
  2. GamePro gave the game 4/5 for graphics, 2/5 for sound, 4.5/5 for control, and 2.5/5 for fun factor.

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