It gives you everything you could want from a mindlessly violent and brutal title like this and we applaud the developers for not rocking the boat. It offers a variety of weapons and pickups, a player versus the odds battle with a cavalcade of enemies to contend with, an over the top action-heavy presentation and gameplay that offers a real challenge as you get to the later stages of the game. The gameplay will be familiar to anyone that has played any game in this destruction derby mini-genre of gaming. So we say just stay on the ground and perfect your destructive craft from there. The water mechanic, in particular, being absolutely useless aside from being a neat party trick. Though in practice, these mechanics go from sort of useful to absolutely unworkable. These look great and it’s clear that the developers placed a lot of focus on these being a big selling point for the title. This is the hover mechanics, snow mechanics and water mechanics. The big changes from past outings for the series are the addition of quirky gimmicks to the vehicles. Though it’s easy to look past these small qualms due to the high level of detail and quality as a whole. Small issues with the presentation such as render distance issues and frame rate problems when a lot is happening on the screen do exist.
Culminating in art and sound that is perfect and quite impressive for the time period of release. Plus the musical score is very in tune with the time period. The 70’s environments that you pilot your car of the future are well designed and have enough familiar references and environments to stay authentic. You’d think that one party would clearly have the upper hand but the game does a great job of making it a balanced and fair experience. In a nutshell, it’s gang warfare between futuristic hover cars and 1970’s muscle cars. This titles aesthetic is quite unique due to its simple but effective back story. These two titles add weapons, war and wackiness to vehicle-based titles, all the while maintaining their own unique style and personality. Though the title that this game takes its inspiration from is obviously Twisted Metal. This game plays with driving mechanics similar to Driver or Burnout. Vigilante 8: 2nd Offense became the next game in this time period to offer players this mayhem and carnage for their home system. Games that took racing titles and added a badass and explosive nature to their gameplay.
This was, of course, the destruction derby type games. A genre that would gain a lot of traction in this time period through its library of manic and frantic gameplay. In the fifth generation of gaming, one particular game was born.
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