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What a horrible disappointment.
The soundtrack is nothing above poor, and the graphics are vibrant but mostly lack detail. The courses are, on the whole, poorly designed and incredibly short-lapped. There's a distinct lack of options, and battle mode is brought down by the awful arena design and unforgivable lack of bots. The gameplay is generally good, but too slow, especially now F-Zero GX is released.
This seems to mark a worrying trend for the series; this is worse than Mario Kart 64, and that wasn't as good as the original. Even Crash Team Racing, a PSOne game and a blatent rip-off, has better design in some respects. I see no explanation other than the fact that this was rushed out to give sales a boost at Christmas. Oh Nintendo? What have you done?
A shame. But these are first impressions, and I have only played about an hour and a half. Perhaps I'll grow to love it. At present however, it IS good, but only around 6-7/10.
The soundtrack is nothing above poor, and the graphics are vibrant but mostly lack detail. The courses are, on the whole, poorly designed and incredibly short-lapped. There's a distinct lack of options, and battle mode is brought down by the awful arena design and unforgivable lack of bots. The gameplay is generally good, but too slow, especially now F-Zero GX is released.
This seems to mark a worrying trend for the series; this is worse than Mario Kart 64, and that wasn't as good as the original. Even Crash Team Racing, a PSOne game and a blatent rip-off, has better design in some respects. I see no explanation other than the fact that this was rushed out to give sales a boost at Christmas. Oh Nintendo? What have you done?
A shame. But these are first impressions, and I have only played about an hour and a half. Perhaps I'll grow to love it. At present however, it IS good, but only around 6-7/10.
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Mattribute wrote:
> Why don't you just ise the www.mkdd.co.uk time trials?
They have undergone their test period and the new times page wont be up (or the old ones updated) for at least two weeks :(
> Why don't you just ise the www.mkdd.co.uk time trials?
They have undergone their test period and the new times page wont be up (or the old ones updated) for at least two weeks :(
Why don't you just ise the www.mkdd.co.uk time trials?
AliBoy wrote:
> Would imagine single player is going to get pretty dull after
> unlocking everything but as usual think multiplayer could go on and
> on and on.....
The single player is surprisingly long lasting. There's a lot of vehicles, characters and tracks to unlock, and then there's mirror mode which could take time as well.
Time Trials are excellent too. There's an SR compo starting up soon as well - Valentino Rossi is doing it. Which is good.
> Would imagine single player is going to get pretty dull after
> unlocking everything but as usual think multiplayer could go on and
> on and on.....
The single player is surprisingly long lasting. There's a lot of vehicles, characters and tracks to unlock, and then there's mirror mode which could take time as well.
Time Trials are excellent too. There's an SR compo starting up soon as well - Valentino Rossi is doing it. Which is good.
Got it in the post this morning, so me and my brother played for a while to see if it could compete with Mario Kart on the SNES.
Its pretty good, would imagine with 3 mates it could be plenty of fun but did feel the battle levels were a bit poo, no bots and the short levels is a bit disappointing.
Would imagine single player is going to get pretty dull after unlocking everything but as usual think multiplayer could go on and on and on.....
Its pretty good, would imagine with 3 mates it could be plenty of fun but did feel the battle levels were a bit poo, no bots and the short levels is a bit disappointing.
Would imagine single player is going to get pretty dull after unlocking everything but as usual think multiplayer could go on and on and on.....
Imagine what a monkey/cow crossbreed could do...
Not bloody much, that's what.
Not bloody much, that's what.
...lately.
Glad to hear it!
Maverick42 wrote:
> If you've got DK on the back, and he gets knocked off so he drags
> along behind you, it sounds like someone's raping a cow..
Cow Rape, haven't tried that one...
> If you've got DK on the back, and he gets knocked off so he drags
> along behind you, it sounds like someone's raping a cow..
Cow Rape, haven't tried that one...
heh!
Ashman wrote:
> But it really isn't. The only real challenge in this game is unlocking
> the Staff Ghosts. Really, the only thing that has taken me more than
> 3 tries is unlocking staff ghosts.
I suppose. Damn you. I shall bombard your area with hundreds of red shells, I know where you live *sorta*
> But it really isn't. The only real challenge in this game is unlocking
> the Staff Ghosts. Really, the only thing that has taken me more than
> 3 tries is unlocking staff ghosts.
I suppose. Damn you. I shall bombard your area with hundreds of red shells, I know where you live *sorta*
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