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Having bought RBR for a special price of 4 pounds, I decided to see if it deserved being at a high number in the 100 best PC games. Sadly it didnt. Anyway, lets review this like a meal. For starters there is an absurdly hard tutorial which you have to complete if you want to do the season. You also need to complete the tutorial to unlock new tracks. Now for the main course, the races; now that I think about it, this is the most frustrating game EVER, especially if you are using the keyboard controls! Hitting a fence at 100mph doesnt destroy it, it makes you stop and more often than not, you just spin around. The same thing happens when you hit a tree or sign. If you think the game has a brilliant physics engine, your wrong. The races do get easier the more you play them, and if you go slowly and dont crash you can still do pretty well (even with a keyboard). And finally, we get to the dessert, a season which is around 40 races put together with a basic points system and quite good damage system (which new players should turn off) thrown in. Next time I eat, I think I'll pick Need For Speed.
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Having bought RBR for a special price of 4 pounds, I decided to see if it deserved being at a high number in the 100 best PC games. Sadly it didnt. Anyway, lets review this like a meal. For starters there is an absurdly hard tutorial which you have to complete if you want to do the season. You also need to complete the tutorial to unlock new tracks. Now for the main course, the races; now that I think about it, this is the most frustrating game EVER, especially if you are using the keyboard controls! Hitting a fence at 100mph doesnt destroy it, it makes you stop and more often than not, you just spin around. The same thing happens when you hit a tree or sign. If you think the game has a brilliant physics engine, your wrong. The races do get easier the more you play them, and if you go slowly and dont crash you can still do pretty well (even with a keyboard). And finally, we get to the dessert, a season which is around 40 races put together with a basic points system and quite good damage system (which new players should turn off) thrown in. Next time I eat, I think I'll pick Need For Speed.
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