... it would be this toxic waste ! Grip is everything made EA/CM racing games bad ! Devs and artists made globally a great job, game had potential, but designer(s) ruined it with a snap of a finger ! - difficulty is just a word, "easy" have a different meaning from them and us, game designer(s) obviously don't know what "easy" mean, you're barely allowed some tiny mistakes in "easy" races, - we never see how much XP we've got, - opponents are +/- on rail, they know where tracks limits are, we don't, there is not enough hints to see this, no recon, no map (if devs even know what the track looks like), - the "radar" is pretty pointless, it's stay fixed, only dist relative to opponents, what the point ? Distance to "finish" sometime increase, most of the time stay the same. - garage's stuff are purely cosmetic, no improvement to vehicle stats, - UI is poorly designed as sometime mouse is not needed and sometime abolutely mandatory ! This is a BIG mistake, - you can't get off the game while competing in a "championship", so if there are 10 very long races... you have to complete them all in a row, - you can't browse championship standings, - the campaign menu is also very badly designed, first option = new campaign ! "Continue campaign" comes second, - when we're put back on the track, it's always far behind others (1st => 8/9 at slow speed so we end up last quickly) opponents are put back right in front of us ! - championship completion count isn't accurate, it always miss one (doing one champ => completed: 0 !! sync issue ?) - car behave like crap and bounce all around too easily This game was maybe one tiny month away to be a success, did they ran out of money before ? Were they just dumb as hell ? Who knows ? So much work wasted for nothing. Conclusion => DO NOT buy it, even on sales, even for one little penny, maybe even if they pay you back to get it !
This game is fully packed of action with unlimited enemies coming at you for who knows reason ? All those nine guys, the characters we can play, have seriously annoyed someone very powerful and even more very crazy, far more than General Hux at his best ! The game is great, as usual you've got random powerups and weapons and you have to get the best of them to succeed. There is so many weapons you can define you're very own style, considering investing on a very few powerups can give a huge return on investment later in game, especially cooldown powerups combined with explosions & projectiles, even with "enemy spawn bullets on death" powerup, it create quite a self sustained nuclear fission style reactions among big packs of enemies, especially combined with "kill % of enemies with boss" powerup. It also remind me old Conway's Game of Life programs which was always amazing to watch. Lasers seems to be the least effective weapons but I didn't use them so much yet. The big enemies packs are like zombies pack and dodging them put you in the flesh of some The Walking Dead characters except we can't push them at all ! I give only 4 stars cause I'm not sure how long players would like to play it after unlocking everything and gather all achievements on GOG. But that's a typical issue with roguelite I guess, if there are not hard enough like Nuclear Throne (for me at least, I'm not very good at it but I like it a lot ! I played more than 200 hours), there is nothing more to do and to get so why keep playing ? Except if game is still fun to play just for the enjoyment of playing without expecting anything more.
- still as fun as it was 20 years ago, games like this (Quake2 for instance) were more focus on game-play than just visuals and sounds, - car designs and skin are great, - missions are the weak spot, not very fun, even boring, no actual briefing ( we often don't know where is what and the best course to be in time to reach the target), need to improve and do them multiple times to be on time, - map is pretty useless, as all cars have the same icon, genius idea ! - for a racing game, it's weird this is not about racing at all ! Who care to finish 1st, just destroy everything and everyone around you is enough, that's unfortunate, you could race for fun but there is not enough carrot to push you to do it, better to grab the stick and punish the others, who doesn't care much too, as they always go for you wherever you are. - physics are very... approximate and some cars are barely drivable like the wheel, rough terrain doesn't help, I guess it was ok back then, but now, a little bit of smoothing would have been welcome, as cars usually spin for no good reason, especially when we're short on time, on some joint between parts of terrain, - there are a few stability issues (one crash pretty clean, another one nasty game window stay opened and mouse cursor did not respond at all on window, impossible to kill trd2k process and have to reboot !) - after completing the game, and as there is no actual racing, game become a lot less fun despite having all the vehicles for free including police cars and non drivable ones like the tank
Un des seuls jeux que j'ai acheté sur GOG (hormis les cadeaux offerts de temps à autre) et je suis très très déçu. Je n'y ai quasiment pas joué depuis l'achat car les développeurs ont vraiment commis une bourde incroyable avec le tutorial et les contrôles. Dans le texte, il est indiqué d'appuyer sur la touche , avec CTRL_ID l'identifiant interne utilisé par le jeu pour faire le lien entre conrôle et touche physique. Quand je vois ce genre de bourde monumentale, marque évidente de finition baclée, absence de tests poussés et mépris des futurs joueurs/ses, j'ai tendance à balancer le jeu direct à la poubelle, figurativement parlant. Qand j'aurai un peu de temps à perdre, je verrais pour le problème de contrôles (il y a des infos sur un forum Steam). Incompréhensible autant que honteux de voir des idioties de ce genre pour des jeux "modernes" et ce genre de pratiques devraient être d'avantage sanctionnée par des notes très basses afin de s'assurer que les coup d'pieds et les baffes ne loupent pas leurs cibles.
