Catalogue No. -  T-10307G

Nextech have sure brought some treasure to the Saturn with this title. Originally known as Project DDD running on unknown hardware, co developer and publisher, Takara showed of a 3D 1 on 1 Beat'em up running in Hi-rez with transparent 3D fighting arenas, multi parallax scrolling backgrounds, light sourcing and shading. It came as a shock to everyone that the game was in fact running on a standard Saturn !! D-Xhird (pronounced D-Third) is a technical achievement on the Saturn since it does everything that people said the Saturn couldn't do. The polygons are pretty solid looking too with no bending or brake up.

So is D-Xhird the best fighter for the Saturn? Well, sadly not. The game has amazing graphics for a Saturn and has some pretty cool 3D play mechanics but everything seems a bit stiff. After playing this for a good 2 hours I started to get into it by trying out every one of the 10 selectable characters plus the 2 hidden characters. I'd say that this game is more of a "look what the Saturn CAN do" game than an actual sit down and play for a few hours game. Saying that, if you want a new fighter for a few quick games every now and then, get D-Xhird. It's far better than all of the other non Sega 3D fighters out there on the Saturn.