However, all there seem to be are slow, grainy and hopelessly juddery graphics with about all the smoothness of a Channel crossing in a force 10.Įven on the supposedly fast graphic detail settings, it's impossible to get the car's handling right. The programmers boast about the "Fast, detailed and smooth polygon graphics" which grace the game.
If you do actually manage to make it out onto the track then the game doesn't get much more exciting. Unless of course you haven't been given the opportunity to enter a control word (usually I German), in which case the car will crash and you have to go all the way back to the main menu in the vain hope that the game will ask you for that previous word. The garage doors then swing open and with a nudge of the joystick you can accelerate out. Having picked your set of prestige wheels and decided which track you're going to potter around on, the screen display changes to show a fuzzy representation of the particular dashboard of your chosen car. The 'fun' aspects come from the stunt elements to the tracks. The idea is that you can race one of 11 performance cars (including a Ferrari, a Lamborghini Countach and the ubiquitous Porsche) around a series of tracks either against a computer- controlled car or the clock. What we've got here is a very obviously Hard Drivin/ Test Drive- influenced game. If this game's amazingly real then obviously we've all been living in some kind of virtual reality for the last couple of decades. It takes as its premise the idea that the fourth dimension is realism (and there was me thinking it was time) and that this game is 'amazingly' real.
It's not fair to operate on a first impressions basis, but when a game tells you that you've failed the security check when you haven't even been given a chance to enter anything, you know that this is going to be a sloppily programmed effort.ĤD Sports Driving is an interesting game. It doesn't bode very well for a game when its protection system is so abysmal.
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