14th March 2004, 6:04 PM
Quote:Oh man, that is such a laughable thing to say I'm not sure if you're joking or not. You seriously must not have played a racing game before 1998 if you honestly believe that. Ever played a little game by the name Destruction Derby before? It came out before Rush and featured (among other things), low gravity and big jumps throughout the race course. BAR's level of gravity more closely matches that than the more exaggerated Rush. Rush did not invent high-flying! And as for shortcuts, please don't tell me you think Rush invented shortcuts of any kind! Go back and play the early Mario Kart games, the NFS games, the Ridge Racer games, the Jet Moto games, the V-Rally games, and about a hundred other racing games that came before shitty Rush!
Hmm... I played the PC demo of Destruction Derby. It was really, really, hard. It did have some jumps, yes, but shortcuts like that? Again, they bear a strong resemblance to Rush shortcuts and it's not a cooincidence I'm sure.
I haven't played most of those games you mention but Mario Kart did not have lots of shortcuts... at least not that type... and NFS? You must be joking! That has very few of them, and you stick to the road almost all the time...
I didn't say Rush invented it. It just did that 'lots of really cool shortcuts' thing in a way no game had done before. You can't deny that! It did! And BAR is OBVIOUSLY emulating it! I don't see why it's even a question... BAR is NFS crossed with Rush. And is a solid game with flaws.
Oh, for another great (non-futuristic) racing game, I really liked Speed Busters (pc)... aka Speed Devils (dreamcast). Much better than (its contemporary) NFSIII, IMO...
Quote:The controls are still terribly floaty and the car physics aren't even unreallstic good.
Thank you for helping to prove my point.
Quote:Exactly, Enter the Matrix is also a love/hate thing and we all know how terrible it is. Like Rush.
But it didn't get good reviews from ... just about anywhere! "love" requires good and bad scores. It got almost all bad ones. Rush had a much higher proportion of high scores. Very different.