Squeal piggy, squeal:
The sounds are right in this one with the
huge deep sounding engines you would expect to hear. The music is a typical microsoft
affair, alright for 5 minutes and then it gets turned off. You would have thought that a
company with their cash flow could afford some decent musicians. Anyway the sounds are
sampled fine and fit the origin well enough, tires screech when they should mud actually
squealches on some tracks, going underwater makes the sound go all bubbley but I wish they
would get rid of the stupid commentator or at least tone him down a little like feed him
full of depressants before recording him, he is ever so slightly hyper. Thankfully he can
be turned off just the the repeative music so all is ok I guess then.
Rolling, rolling, rolling into the
river:
Gameplay is unusual due to it being very
torn up between itself. This  game has the
same annoying error as Dominion which is singleplayer is boring and multiplayer is the fun
part. Your car is very slippery, you would have thought having wheels this big would
provide you with huge amounts of grip but nope, it handles like a hovercraft except as the
title suggests they don’t float. "Like a rock" is an appropriate term, it
handles like one and sinks like one. The computer is useless, it’s too easy to come
first on all of the tracks and you never get that feeling like, "I deserved that
win" as you could be half asleep and still win. In multiplayer though you get this
WCW wrestling arena to ram your friends out of, king of the hill type thing, and that is
lots of fun. Normal racing when in multiplayer is fun also as tyou know that your friend
drives as bad as you do, and it also allows an interesting question, do you follow the
track or risk shortcutting to the next checkpoint. This little element add’s to the
joy factor as you make snap decisions to follow or risk the shortcut, meanwhile your doing
this so are your friends and it can lead to an more random element of racing.
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