City Under Siege is the textbook definition of aggressively mediocre. It's not a bad game, it's not a good game, it's just very... blah. It's an uninteresting sidescrolling shoot-'em-up where you play as the cyber-police officer Blandson McWhocares. I don't remember what his name is... or if he even is named. But I don't care about him so that evens the whole thing out, doesn't it? There's a reason this guy doesn't show up in the SEGA crossover games - because nobody cares about him and nobody cares about ESWAT.

It works and plays perfectly fine, and technically there's nothing egregiously bad about it or anything, but it just isn't interesting enough to hold my attention for any substantial amount of playtime. The mech suit's kind of cool, but that really is about it. The only reason I played this is because there was a trophy in Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection tied to completing a task in it. Safe to say, as soon as I got that trophy, I turned in my badge.

Reviewed on Feb 08, 2023


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