"You got 3 things you can do, 1, you can practice on the course
of your choice; 2, you can talk with one of the other members,
and C, you challenge a member to a race. So what's it gonna
be sport?". This intro movie dialogue was the only thing mildly
entertaining about this game. The rest is all downhill from
here. This is a racing game like (I hate to even speak about this
game in the same breath as this) NFS2. You get 1 car to start
with and can practice on the massive number of tracks (5). To
access the other cars, you have to beat the owner of the car
you want.
Does this game look any good? God no. It uses your 3D card,
but beyond accelerating the frame rate the card is only used to
blur the heck out of the already low detail texture maps. It ran
smooth but it was ugly in the process. The trees are just flat
sprites and you can see the black masking around the edges of
each tree. The rocky cliffs that border the track aren't much
better. Even the backdrop is low res, so much so that you can
see each of the square pixels. This is easily one of the ugliest
games this year.
This game has 2 sound effects. The engine and the sound
made when banging into the edges of the track. I heard no
music.
For what you get, this game should be a 2 meg, freeware
download. The "course design" consists of hard left and right
turns in succession. The crazy thing about the control was that
neither the joystick or the keyboard was fast enough to turn in
time. But you could actually use both at the same time and turn
more than if you used just one. So I was forced to push left on
a joystick while holding left on my keyboard, just so that I
could turn properly. I tried to challenge another member but it
kept kicking me back to the main menu. So I couldn't even get
another car to try. However I'm sure each car drives exactly the
same so it's probably a minor element. This game is so far
back from what titles like NFS2se and Test Drive 4 offer to
racing fans. You get fake cars, stupid tracks, and horrible
graphics. Sitting in a cardboard box, and holding a dinner
plate as a steering wheel, would be more realistic, and fun,
than this game.
Good stuff:
NOTHING
Bad stuff:
graphics stink
terrible tracks
fake cars
lousy sound
and on and on......