Posted on: May 5, 2020
wilkan
Verified ownerGames: 509 Reviews: 157
A Proper Sequel and An Engine Demo
RECOMMENDED, though prepare for the plethora of repeated tracks, racing positions as the sole progress qualifier and dodgy track design with e.g. objects blocking the vision of the road and collision hazards. Generally it is an improved over the prequel, where one bad collision could break your car to the point of losing you the race and generally you were heavily punished for risky i.e. fun driving. Here, the cars are much more durable and it is much easier to beneficially collide with other cars. Content-wise, it has the same problems such as tracks that feel the same and the cryptic bonus modes where you mostly waste time earning nothing while trying to figure out what and how little exactly the devs were thinking when they implemented those segments. Unless you time your actions in a very specific way or play keep-away in derbies while making specific types of collisions, you are not going to gain anything for your efforts. Graphics: pretty solid and generally runs without choking. Sound: the soft rock is slightly better than in the prequel, though still something you probably want to mute. The car sounds, likewise. Put some music or sth on the background if you want to listen to sth. Gameplay: driving is okay, though it has the same annoying wobbliness (the side-to-side thing) and crash-happy jumping physics as most Codemasters driving games. In an arcade-y one where you are absolutely forced to drive very fast i.e. constantly over 100 km per hour, it is not fun to constantly wrestle with the car, trying to keep it close to the road, with bush-hidden rocks and make-shift ramps to mess you up. Messing up is really annoying, as generally two collisions in a row is enough to drop you from the first place to the last. Even with all handling upgrades, the problem still persists. You cannot really take in possible road hazards because a slight slack in handling focus is enough to crash you to the side of the road.
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