Dig and Spike Volleyball

Hudson Soft serves up a mediocre game of volleyball in its latest SNES release, Dig & Spike.

Court-ing the Beach

Dig & Spike brings home the two most popular volleyball styles: Beach and Court. The Court Mode is a semi-realistic six-man game with international teams and a Tournament Option. The Beach Mode is a two-on-two women- only game that's a little faster-paced and more free-form than the Court game.

The controls for both modes are inconsistent. Setting up plays and maneuvering your players can be aggravating. You get a variety of spikes, bumps, and sets, but this doesn't overcome the slow, sandlot-caliber game play.

The graphics and sounds add little to the package. You get a 3/4 angled view of the court or beach, along with some nice ground tex- turing but boring player animations. The crowd noises and ocean waves go in one ear and out the other.

Spiked

Even when playing with a friend, Dig & Spike Volleyball is average rental material. After a while, you may want to bury this one in the sand, and not dig it up again.

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The options alone are enough to give pause. You can play four different types of games including Pennant, All-Star, Match and Home Run. In the Home Run Mode, you can compete for the most home runs within a certain amount of pitches. In All-Star, you get to play as the cream of the baseball crop. Pennant is a race for the title as you play a round of games.

The game play is very good with the players being easy to control. The computer is tough to beat, so you'll never really run out of a good challenge. As for the graphics, they're the best we've seen in a baseball cart in a long time!

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If you ever played beach volleyball, team volleyball or even if you just love watching volleyball, you'll go nuts for Dig and Spike Volleyball.

You can play on two surfaces: court and beach. Each of these has four variations including: player vs. computer, player vs. player, training and World Cup. Each of these offers something unique!

Beach volleyball is played with two players on each side. Each team has its own set of various abilities. Court volleyball can be played like regulation volley-ball, depending on which options you choose.

Go for the spike and attack the net with Dig and Spike Volleyball from the folks at Hudson Soft. Side out!

Play on a six-man international team that plays on the hardwood courts around the world, or play two-man Beach Volleyball mode for thrills and spills in the sand.