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Video obzory igr ToriJ -kh godov. Okay, I'm officially declaring
December, Funcember, because we have a lot of fun games lined up this
month, and we're starting out with San Francisco Rush Extreme
Racing! My first racing game since 2012. That's a long time to
go without a single racing game. Why did I ever stop?
Oh, that's
why.
All right,
after you take a cue tip to dust out the cartridge, and turn the
system on and off a couple of time to get it working, the game will
start right off. From Atari and Midway, remember those guys? Good
times. If you just want to race you can select One Race and go from
there. You have a couple of maps to choose from with a set difficulty
rate, and every map has short cuts you can discover to increase your
chances of winning. There's nothing like a game which encourages
cheating. The cars are separated by difficulty too, and there are
eight cars overall, giving you your choice of color and the usual
automatic and manual setting. Manual is a terrible setting. You put
it on the highest possible setting you can get it, and you'd still
be lagging behind the other cars. Automatic is just an all around
more enjoyable experience.
Except when
this happens. You know what, the next time someone asks me why I
don't drive, I'm just going to show them this picture. I think it
summarizes all the the reasons why I should NEVER be allowed behind
the wheel.
Notice the
number counting down on the top right corner of the screen? That's
your timer. In each course there are several checkpoints you need to
reach in order to get more time. If you run out of time the race
will automatically end and you'll get a game over. Which would be
bad, if you didn't get a game over for finishing the race anyway. I
think someone didn't understand how the game over screen works. The
object of the game is to go fast, only problem is the faster you go,
the most likely you are to crash.
Those
corners are like ninjas, extremely deadly and they'll stealth kill
you. I have to slow down just to turn! You also have places on the
road where you can jump up through the air. It's actually a pretty
cool way to pick up speed, and you can jump over cars. A lot like
this:
Look at that!
How cool is that? That is some Fast and Furious quality stuff right
there.
As the name
would imply, every single course takes place in San Francisco. On the
first track you get to drive across the Golden Gate Bridge which is
probably as close as perfect to an introduction as you can get. Far
as I can tell none of these races are authorized, one course has a
bunch of buses passing you by as obstacles! Where are the police at?
Between demons, and the Tanner family, San Francisco is a dangerous
place to live. Another thing to keep in mind is that your car can be
pretty badly damaged.
Apologies to
all the car lovers out there who are currently weeping at this
picture.
If
you hit the walls, or other cars (and cars will hit back) it damages
the car enough to where it looks like it really did come out of an
action movie. Rush even has action movie car logic that if you so
much as hit something slightly, or flip over, the car will explode.
Was there a gas leak or did somebody put a bomb in the car!? There
are enough explosions in this game to fill up a Michael Bay movie.
Don't believe me? Start the slide show!
Miniature
explosion!
Just add
Megan Fox, remove all originality whatsoever, and you have a Michael
Bay movie.
You all saw
that, right? Unnecessary roughness on the track! That's a red flag if
I ever saw one.
Let's look
at Circuit. Basically, you make a profile, pick your car, and you go
through multiple different tracks and try to earn as many points as
you can each race to get to the top. There isn't much to it than
that. They will however pick all of the hardest tracks they possibly
can, and make you race them over and over again.
This track is
so hard even the computer is crashing!
The only
other mode available is practice where you can try to decrease the
number of times you crash and die. The shortcuts you can find are
pretty neat, also. I managed to find one that was on rooftops and
you had to keep jumping higher and higher to get over them. I didn't
go high enough.
Rush goes up
to two player with a split-screen across the middle, making it
progressively harder to see where you're going. You can see the
things on your sides okay, but everything in front of you is kind
of difficult to grasp, and the map is like barely visible on the
screen. If you so much as look in that direction it's like texting
and driving. If you don't have the skills you're going to end up in
a melodramatic PSA commercial.
Last, but
certainly not least, is the music! This game has a bunch of busting
tracks to listen to while you're racing and/or crashing. Most of all
who could forget the tune that plays after you finish a race?
Rush is
available on the Nintendo 64, and Sony PlayStation. I only played the
N64 version so that the only one I can vouch for as being good. But
if the PlayStation is all you can find it on then go for it. If you
like racing games with challenging tracks, fun beats, and lots of
explosions, this game was tailor made for you!
Get it
By
the way, that person racing with me for the screenshot? My nephew.
He's bad at racing games so I tricked him into playing it with me by
saying whoever crashes the most cars wins. He even let me record it!
I love kids, I really do.
Let
me know what you think about Rush in the comments below, and what
games you'd like to see me play in the future?
Toriy
podpisaniya proch'.
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RUSH!!!!!
You know, I've never actually played the original, but I owned both Rush 2 and 2049 (as well as LA Rush, but the less said there the better), and they were AWESOME games. The shortcuts, and the risk/reward involved with them, made them my some of my preferred racing titles on the N64 and DC. And there were sooooooo many unlockables, too. It was like half racing game, half treasure hunt. Have you played either of the sequels, by chance? :D
Not yet. The first one is the only game I have. My brother played 2049 with our cousins, that was the game he was thinking of when he saw me playing this one. I'll have to go online shopping some day to see if I can find the sequels.
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