So, I bought this. It was $20 and even though I own it, I tried to start up from where I was and just couldn't - had no idea what was going on anymore. I remember getting pissed at the game for some reason when I stopped playing (I remember some of the mechanics being a lot less fun once you got into heavy tank battles, but whatever, I could have been going about everything wrong). I figured I'd buy it to A.) Support SEGA doing quality ports of old games and B.) Support SEGA bringing back the franchise. Hell, I bought the game for like $9.99 the first time anyways, so that's $30 for a great game.
The port is good. It doesn't run well on my PC, but it's good. It's strange, because I checked into that and I exceed the minimum requirements by far and also exceed the recommended in everything but CPU (which I miss by about 200 mhz). Everything went fine until the second battle, and the framerate just dropped to about 20fs. Not a big deal BUUUUUUT I think it's still coded so that a drop in the framerate drops the game speed (I don't know what this is called). So the whole game slows down. Still totally playable, but it slows. There are WAAAAAY bigger battles out there and I don't think that would go so well.
I'm going to stick to the PS3. I'm sure newer hardware runs this great, and it could even be a mixture of my specific card and cpu or something, but the experience for me is still better on the console. I was also hoping that I'd be able to play it on my notebook and Steam Cloud my save back to my PC but it doesn't look all that likely.
I looked around right before buying it and people were saying it was running great on lower hardware than mine (Core2duo E6750 @ 2.67 ATI 5770), so this could just be a specific problem for me or they maybe didn't venture past the first battle (which ran buttery smooth). Just buyer beware a bit if you're skirting the specs.
But now I want to play the game again.
