18th August 2014, 1:36 AM
Playstation
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Extreme Go-Kart Racing - Bad, low budget, but I stuck with it to the end anyway... this is more Ridge Racer or something than it is Mario Kart. It's bad, but at least it's not just a straight clone. I'll write a more full review of this one quite soon. The game is interesting, as bad games can be. I haven't done everything in the game -- there are four unlockable characters, but beating the game didn't unlock any of them, and I have no idea how to unlock them -- but still, I did finish the championship and see the credits, so that counts as a win! This game was hard; each track took a lot of practice. You basically have to be near-perfect in order to actually finish in the top three, and I never managed to even SEE the person in first. Perfect those perfectly-executed drifts! Oh yeah, and no, the game has absolutely no analog support. The Dual Shock controller appears in the control settings menu, but the analog sticks do nothing; this game is d-pad only, ridiculously shameful for a game developed in 2000. There are also very few options. The graphics look badly dated, too. You can see to the horizon, but with graphics this awful, I can see why... there's a jaggy polygon seam between pretty much every single polygon in the game!
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Extreme Go-Kart Racing - Bad, low budget, but I stuck with it to the end anyway... this is more Ridge Racer or something than it is Mario Kart. It's bad, but at least it's not just a straight clone. I'll write a more full review of this one quite soon. The game is interesting, as bad games can be. I haven't done everything in the game -- there are four unlockable characters, but beating the game didn't unlock any of them, and I have no idea how to unlock them -- but still, I did finish the championship and see the credits, so that counts as a win! This game was hard; each track took a lot of practice. You basically have to be near-perfect in order to actually finish in the top three, and I never managed to even SEE the person in first. Perfect those perfectly-executed drifts! Oh yeah, and no, the game has absolutely no analog support. The Dual Shock controller appears in the control settings menu, but the analog sticks do nothing; this game is d-pad only, ridiculously shameful for a game developed in 2000. There are also very few options. The graphics look badly dated, too. You can see to the horizon, but with graphics this awful, I can see why... there's a jaggy polygon seam between pretty much every single polygon in the game!