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Makes sense. The racing and tracks (especially the first one) felt very NFS-ish. And as I said it's not just the lack of gravity! More importantly it's the huge number of big shortcuts all over the place.

Shortcuts weren't invented by Midway!!

All three have a wide variety of cars. 2 has a lot of cars (well if you unlock them) that have widely varied control styles. 2049 has similar cars but a huge amount of customization that matters a lot to how the car handles... 2 does handle worse than 2049, that is true, but one of the cars (I forget which) is pretty close.

2 handles not quite too shitty if you customize the hell out of the controls, but with Rush 1 it is totally impossible to get decent controls.

I've said it many times before, including there, and I'll say it again. Rush is a love or hate game, I suspect. When you look at those scores it's blindingly obvious. No game that everyone sees as good will get both 50% and 99% scores! BAR has consistently high scores. Rush is all over the board. That's a sign that Rush is a game that if you get you get but if you don't you could really dislike... and playing it I can kinda understand that. Now why BAR doesn't have any of those low scores? I'm not sure. Because it uses normal cars? I think that's part of it. And the speed... I'd say that the game design is more something anyone could like while Rush has a very unique physics environment that turns off some people. BAR has nice safe NFS-with-low-gravity.

BAR is a lot of fun, and I'd never say it's bad game (I'd give it a solid B probably, at least), but it's not as good as Rush.

You're so full of shit it's coming out of your ears, ABF. So I suppose Metroid Prime is a "safe" game because it got such great reviews, and Enter the Matrix is just a misunderstood masterpiece.