Caltrops - Gamerasutra





	[quote name="Jerry Whorebach"]Skillfully weaving through traffic at ludicrous speed = fun. Hamfistedly ploughing slower cars from behind while the game ejaculates dollar values and complimentary adjectives all over my screen = fun for about one minute. The problem with traffic checking is they didn't commit to the mechanic. If it were the only way to earn boost, encouraging you to leapfrog between hapless commuters chaining fiery wrecks like ghosts in Pac-Man, that could be ~~wonderful~~. But everything you do in this game gives you boost, there is literally nowhere on any lane you can't drive besides directly into the front grill of an oncoming semi that isn't constantly charging your meter. There is no strategy, no decision making involved; gameplay is entirely reactive, like a fucking Tiger LCD racecar game. It doesn't help that they lump every type of event into a single world tour. I gold all the race and crash events on my first try, then spend thirty minutes trying to shave a tenth of a second off my time in those incessant hot laps (does anybody like time trials outside of rally games? anybody? you do? go jump off a bridge) only to finally beat the posted time but, ha ha, my stupid performance rating when I did it was "GREAT" instead of "AWESOME" for god knows what reason, so it's only worth four stars instead of a perfect five. Why don't I just try it again? Without the benefit of a ghost car showing my last lap, because unlike Super Mario Kart on the SNES this game doesn't have those. Revenge isn't quite as bad as Forza 3 but it's damn close, which is frankly amazing for a driving game that actually lets you steer your own car. Also the tracks are all dirty and ugly and someone smeared a bloomy, desaturated filter all over the screen. Hate. Hate hate hate. Wah.[/quote]