Worst Ever: HyperScan by Mattel - Rerez

Hello, do you like video games? Do you like collectible cards? Well, I have something amazing for you way back in 2006. Mattel, the makers of Barbie and Hot Wheels, entered the video game market with a revolutionary console known as the Hyper Scan. Hyper Scan isn't technically Mattel's first dip into console gaming. They released a system called Intellivision back in the late '70s. People fondly remember Intellivision for its game library graphics and innovative add-ons, but somehow Hyper Scan has been left behind. of time forgotten and unloved surely this must have been a mistake Mattel is a huge company and they couldn't do any harm well people keep your toys very close because we are about to enter a world of red lights, trading cards and misery ,

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ning. a CD based system with some interesting features when you unfold it's book type design you will notice a few things, it feels super cheap and flimsy and when you place it on a table it doesn't lay flat, good job the team notices that strange ruby ​​red platform next to it the top loading disc tray which is the

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radio frequency identification or RFID scanner, this gives the console the ability to read and write trading cards, that's right, traditional trading cards, oh no kids.

I like telecommunications and now just introduce it. and telecard in the card scanner and you can activate saved data and unlock amazing new game features. Now we said at the beginning that this console came out in 2006, but let's put it in context, the Xbox 360 had already been available for a full year. and the PlayStation 3 was a month away from release since the release of Hyper Scan, both the Xbox 360 and PS3 were known for establishing high definition gaming for gamers around the world where they used online gaming with Blu-ray discs or They featured big media and were really the next big thing in console gaming, but the Hyper Scan was standard definition, couldn't connect to the Internet, didn't have any built-in storage, used regular old CDs, a format long abandoned by home consoles, now it's fine, of course.

It wasn't the same caliber as the Xbox 360 or PS3, but that doesn't matter as long as playing on it is responsive and fun, so let's turn it on and take a look, we're all ready to go. play with the hyperscan, we've got a copy of a whole. another hyper skin ready to go and finally the system turned on and the game is loading. This is taking a while, but it shouldn't take much longer. How has it been a minute and the system is still not on? How much longer could it take? almost at the end it's still hanging but we're almost there your caboose there is the Hyper Scan logo and there is the Marvel logo and there is the logo of the company that made this game and 2 minutes of loading for the intro logos not even Al start the game, it took for

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to load this disc and friends, I'm not making this up right after the loading screen, this system started making this weird noise, it sounded like this and then the console shut down, it refused to read the discs Well, there are two. dead consoles before we've even introduced the first game that has the

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, it turns out that hyperscans are very prone to failure and not just optical drives which are really bad, even composite AV cables can ruin your day If they break down now, why?

Could I ask? Isn't it easy to replace them? No, because in hyperscan the AV cables are permanently connected to the body of the system. If for some reason your AV cables fail like ours did, you're out of luck unless you have the technician knows how to open this thing and Risa cures working AV cables. If you have a broken hyperskin, it becomes a hyperghor. Stop all hyperscanning systems. Fox originally came with a console, a game, some of those fancy scannable cards, and a controller. I've used many drivers over the years on the rear Eze, but none have been more questionable than this one.

The Hyper Scan console has a USB port. I've seen it, it's here, but they didn't choose to use that port for the drivers. No no. They used an old style six pin keyboard and mouse input. I haven't seen one of these in a long time. Let's do some calculations. This console was released in 2006. This port was designed in 1987. Why would they use a nineteen year old primitive? entries like this, if they were trying to save money I could understand it, but the USB port is in the system anyway, so why not use it? But maybe no matter what kind of input you have, it's not a big deal.

Because the controller itself is nightmarish rocket fuel, it has an array of bumper buttons that are more crushing than wet moss, triggers that are awkwardly placed, and the selection of face buttons that feel like stale jelly beans and with a discount and the son of the d-pad is there. Instead you have a d-pad, you have a joystick and that will cause problems later. The only thing I can't explain is what the USB port does, it is never used for anything at all and now having seen all the hardware. problem we have encountered and knowing how poor this controller is, I would have to assume that the main function of reading cards outside the system, the only unique feature of this console, would at least be in a usable state, well, here it tells me if it works well , we finally found a properly working console yippee, let's get into our first game, the original game pack for Hyper Scan the good For your sanity, we will remove the many loading screens you have to go through before starting the actual game.

You're welcome, just keep in mind that you spend more than half your time playing this game waiting for things to load anyway, yes this is a traditional, basic one on one fighting game from start to finish and yes Well it's nice to see several characters from the like being a character, this game does not have that to enter the cards that are packed in telecard, we have everything fresh with the system, well, these cards are not useless, in fact. They are essential to play this game. If you lose these cards, the games won't work because you don't have a character select screen.

What you do have is a character card. It turns out we only have two characters in the box. That means that we will only be able to play with these two characters, Wolverine and Lady Deathstrike. Oh okay, we've scanned our fighter, now let's get into the game and, well, these graphics are horrible. I mean, look at this, they're selling mediocre 2D. graphics from three full generations on 3D consoles, this is shocking and what the hell is all that loading? Technically, hyperscanning is more powerful than the original arcade hardware used for x-men: sons of the atom, which was over a decade before hyperscanning arrived.

Look at the difference, what possible excuse could they have for making something so shoddy that it looks bad? Everything is locked behind the cards and you can spend forever waiting to play, but once you're in the game, it must surely work fine, right? Go figure. if you will, a fighting game that suffers from input lag measured in seconds, move sets that make no logical sense. An AI that is just as scared and confused as the player is X-Men in the hyperscan, but that's only half the story. What you do in this game grants you experience after each round you complete, you scan your card into the system and increase your character's stats and level, which makes character cards also kind of cool memory cards and for increase the fun every time you want to access a training level change a character modify a fight or attempt a finishing move you have to get up from your seat you walk over the console you find your card and clumsily scan it as fast as you can because in some cases This can be when the hyperscan is too busy to wait while you play with his scanner, if you are too slow you will miss the opportunity and the game continues.

They could have easily put a card scanner on the controller, but instead they designed it that way. What a dumb choice, but at least you have this stupid slot in the controller to put your card in that doesn't even hold the card well and ends up falling out incredibly easily. This whole experience with this game is discouraging. an epic force of poor ideas and concepts rolled into one, but this was just the game that was included in the box. They sold other games with their own booster packs and if I may, I'd like to take a few seconds to rip it apart. in this money grabbing mechanic, let me make this totally clear: the game disc, this CD here has all the game data, the intellicus or to unlock these features, so for a fighting game like x-men the cards serve as a kind of physical block that prevents you from exploring the full game it's basically physical DLC my nightmare in card form if you want to play with more characters and explore more of the game and you need to buy booster packs, random collections of cards that maybe Whether you have it or not, racking up tons of useless doubles, triples, and quadruples just for the chance to get something you really want, hey, that sounds familiar, hyperscanning was way behind the curve in a lot of ways, but when it came to loot boxes, were you ahead of the curve?

You could buy pack after pack hoping to find a specific fighter or a move for a fighter you already have, but you might never get that card and end up with a bunch of these annoyingly silly training levels, look at this, what's that supposed to? what is this? That was ten dollars well spent and of course the cards are not compatible with other games. Each title requires its own set. The x-men game alone has over 100 cards. A booster pack contains only six cards. Do you know how many packages you would have? buy for a chance to get everything you need to play the game completely, it's an endless rabbit hole that you keep spiraling down because you've already invested, so you might as well buy one more pack to upgrade the game, another and another and with another and more, you can spend hundreds of dollars on a single full game, even if you were able to collect all the cards and therefore get the most complete experience of what the game has to offer. x-men is simply a terrible experience with controls that are on the edge. can't play, input lag is atrocious, feels like you're yelling at a friend in another room which buttons to press, press the B button, boom, well but the developers just make a bad game or it's the fault from the console, well, let's find out with the next one.

Marvel Heroes game, where do I start? The game is a complete disaster, you have cringe-inducing visuals and poorly written, encapsulated and shoehorned dialogue. Lee put together comic book sequences, all of this is done in an attempt to produce some kind of reason for everything to work. It goes on, nothing flows and nothing works unlike x-men, this is not a fighting game, but rather it is a platform and side-scrolling, beat'em up game. The cards are used in a totally different way here, but in some ways it's worse than the Watch the x-men game, you can get Wolverine and x-men and play their entire campaign, all you need is their character card , but in Marvel heroes you may have a character card for Hulk, but you may not have his story card, they look exactly like that.

They look alike, but they don't work the same way. Is that how it works. If you have a story card. Congratulations, you can play any story. You play as a character dictated by the story. It's usually three boring levels with pointless enemies. It attacks you with two smaller bosses until you defeat a main boss. It's boring if you don't have a story card, although you can still play by creating your own story. Break out your paid DLC bump pack. Choose a character. Choose an area. an atmosphere, add some villains or bosses and voilà, your own custom content sounds fun, it's not this random mix of cards that rarely makes sense without the slightest touch of story, it's just a mash-up over bland layouts, the areas always They look boring. and uninspired, we now had a booster pack and luckily got an atmosphere card, but all it did was turn everything on tonight, which looks like someone turned down the brightness on their TV.

Great, the controls are as bad as X-Men, but this game seems to have a lot more bugs jumping fromwindow to window with the Hulk looks bad, it sounds worse no matter what character you play, as nothing ever feels right. Captain America has a section where he needs to climb trees and, honestly, he looks at this, this is ridiculous, the trees. They seem like they're part of the background, but honestly, it's all that random scene building that's inexcusable. We used an area card with the Fantastic Four thing and were instantly loaded into a level that was broken.

I tried for half an hour to find some solution to overcome this hole in the ground, but nothing I tried worked, there seemed to be no way to overcome this stage. Soulless and broken random quest generators are one thing, but when you're charging for cards that make this random system work when it really doesn't, that's when you're ripping people off. Seriously, it has to be one of the

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games I've ever seen sold with a legitimate license from a major company like Marvel, so of course when I saw our next game, a seemingly new IP produced exclusively for the folks at Hyper Scan .

I was immediately scared. Witness as we venture into the interstellar fighting league. Another one-on-one fighter. This seems a little confusing, so let's have the game tell us what. the plot is about greetings and greetings to everyone. I'm Idaho Jones.emcee and commentator for the interstellar wrestling league ha ha I've sent a message to all the fighters in the galaxy who's the greatest who's the baddest who's the baddest who bakes the tastiest cakes no there is a strike that last one there can only be one king of the Ring, who will it be? Join me for some fantastic iwl action.

A beautiful introduction, isn't it? just a bad photo shop but this title is special meat the only game not made by the company that developed the other games on this console interstellar fighting league was made by digital eclipse now if that name sounds familiar it's because they were responsible of some really great titles and game collections, but how did the company fare in its only hyperscan release? It's not that good. You have to hand it to Digital Eclipse. In fact, this may be the best game on the console, but don't think for a moment what that means.

That interstellar fighting league is really good, it just proves something I suspected about hyperscanning all along. The console is capable of offering a halfway decent experience. This title has less input lag, making it much easier to control than its cursed siblings. Frankly, it's not perfect, it's terrible, but at least when you press a button, the character on the screen reacts appropriately and as for loading, yes, it still has a lot of loading screens, but they seem much faster than anything else I've seen. You play in the hyperscan, so it's sure I did some things right, but where it fails, it fails a lot.

The game is practically identical to X-Men. You'll need several cards and booster packs to get more characters and basically complete the game, but this game falls a bit below X-. Men are on their skill cards during a game. A referee will appear and stop the game. This happens randomly during an active fight. You will have to take out a car that gives your character some ability and place it on the ground. If you dont do it. This results in your opponent gaining an ability that he can use against you, leaving you with nothing, so you better have a card nearby.

Oh, it looks like I don't think I need to bring up any more reinforcements to get angry. space fighter fight better how about we move on? Let's step back into the world of licensed properties and marvel at playing a game called Spider-Man. This one was exclusive to Toys R Us so it has to be good, no the titles are exclusive to Toys R Us. I meant that you have an extra card in the game box, this doesn't mean anything now, unlike the other games you don't actually need to worry about character cards, well I mean yes you should have at least one card character and that card must be a spider. -man, if you lose this card you can't save the game, so don't lose it in general, this is a strange game, it's a kind of platformer, but it has closed missions that take place in levels that are little pieces of New York, there is a variety.

There are many stages to choose from, but you can't play them all because most of these levels are physically locked behind cards, meaning you'll have to go out and buy a bunch of booster packs to find them so you can play the entire game. That's cool, you just bought a game disc, brought it home, and now you need to go out again and collect a bunch of random useless cards to have a chance to play all of these really nasty levels. Mattel is onto something really cool here and confident. For me, none of these levels are worth purchasing additional cards because they consist of mundane and sometimes ridiculous tasks that seem to have no solution.

The best I can tell is that we are missing a specific auto boost so that certain levels can be completed, but for which you can complete. Does delivering pizza sound like fun? How about Spider-Man being a firefighter? Spidey doesn't have water on him, so I guess he'll just shoot his webs at the flames and oh, that really works if a building is collapsing. -man is a junior architect in the city and quickly solves the crumbling problems by shooting cobwebs at the cracks in the walls that actually seem to hold the real building together. If you ask me, it seems like the game designers were really lazy and could only think about the spider. -man shoots guns as a game mechanic but eventually we see other levels like this where there is a blimp in spider man that saves people before they fall so they perfectly animated people holding on to our throwing heroes cobwebs, but they don't.

You're still worried about facing off against Spider-Man's smarter and more ruthless enemies, like Doctor Octopus, whose evil plan for Spider-Man to thwart appears to be to knock over works of art from a museum that Spider-Man needs to carefully catch, It's just that even really All of that is illegal, I mean, wouldn't they give you a fine or a fee or something? Couldn't you? I don't know, dealing with the security guards. Did Spider-Man really need to go out of his way to take care of this museum? By now, folks, I think you can see that hyperscanning is a disaster, but we have one more game to fill out this console's entire library.

Oh, that's right, there are only five games that were publicly released. hyperscanning because this system was canceled and I'm not going to make this up after only a couple of months on store shelves, but I'm rambling on about playing Ben 10, a program turned video game on a console that no one wanted Get ready, this is one. licensed property that, in theory, should be perfect for hyperscanning, the original TV series is about a boy who has the ability to transform into aliens, so you'd think that while playing you'd just pull out an alien card and scan him to convert him. whatever is on the card, it's a simple idea and I think anyone could get behind it, I even think it sounds pretty interesting.

Ben can turn into fun aliens and players can collect the alien cards, but that's not what they did. somehow made it more complex not only there are alien cards but there are also project mods, Maz attack, defense mode, speed mods, power mods, villain defense, help in ultimate cards, are you kidding me, why did you need so many? Somehow they found a way to do it like that. It's frustrating and confusing knowing which cards do what at any given time and you don't want to bother using any of them, but how does the base game work well?

It's a platformer, so what's a platformer to do right? Attack jump move left or else this game somehow fails to do all of these things. Ben Tenn has the longest input lag of any game I've played, we're talking about a good five seconds from when you press the jump button to actually seeing a character jump, but time delays and button presses are not your only problem. Ben Tenn also has the worst loading times, but we're not just talking about loading between levels, here we're talking about the one thing Ben should be able to do by switching on the fly. between alien forms, the console seems to be unable to play by scanning a card at the same time, so when you have the opportunity to switch, which requires you to stand on a platform, the game struggles and crashes for a moment. and that's not even the end of making that frustrating experience even worse.

Once you've found some way to get the console to scan the car, the game immediately freaks out and starts sounding a loud alarm for you to remove the card. All of this, by the way, requires you to find a card in the game before the card can be scanned. Confusing, well because it's going to get worse. It's a totally broken experience from start to finish. The levels are mostly stupid obstacle courses with few enemies placed. and with that horrible input lag, you're going to fall a lot and die, so by now you'd probably think that the only thing saving the game is that you can have free will to change the levels however you want with any character. you have the right for the right in your deck, well no, we got to a level where any card we scanned always turned into the same alien and they explained it with this ridiculous exposition of his grandfather Max saying that the machine was a little spoiled, you know? like hyperscanning so the games seem to really think we had to be this blue and black alien but he had no special abilities that we could see that made the level easier when he turns back into Ben you can finish the tasks no problem What's the point of collecting all these cards when they don't even do what they're supposed to do when you scan them?

What's the point of all this console? It is not like this? I've seen a lot of crappy system games. made to scam and steal money from people, scams that trick customers into buying something that is not what is written on the box, but with hyperscanning you are looking at Mattel, a huge company that actually made a console in the past that people enjoyed. Intellivision, most of the games on hyperscan are lazy cash, a total slap in the face to anyone who has dared to buy this piece of crap if they aren't messing up by scanning the cards incorrectly or struggling to play the discs, it's controlling poorly and putting you in a constant state of rage like no other console before, so heed my warning friends, that bright red ring appears to be cozy and charming, but hidden under all that plastic is a cruel part from gaming history that's best forgotten: it's hyperscanning.