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- @5Game Preview: XTreme Racing: A1200/ A4000
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- 030 required for enhanced graphics:
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- First there was Virtual Karting which I thought was bloody crap,
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- mainly due to the awkward controls and dark crappy graphics, although
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- I did say that this game could be brilliant if it wasn't for those two
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- glitches.
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- Well, a few weeks ago, a rip off of Virtual Karting came along and
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- before I played it, I thought. Oh Oh more crap.
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- Well, I was in for a surprise, and a pleasant one at that.
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- Upon loading, I found a nice intro screen which looked a bit on the
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- rendered side, followed by some great music, a sort of continuous beat
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- thing with someone shouting "watch this", I think that was #3More>>>
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- the chorus.
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- Xtreme racing has the ability to adapt to the users set up, so I tried
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- both configurations, one with a standard A1200, the other with a
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- 1200, 6Meg and an 030. No prizes for guessing which one I enjoyed the
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- game on the most, but on the standard 020 setting, I found the game
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- a bit of fun to play, but nothing brilliant. The graphics were dull
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- like Virtual Kartings and the game played reasonably well, better than
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- V.K that's for sure. The reason why the graphics are dull is because
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- of the low detail of the graphics and because the games graphics
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- are handled by the blitter.
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- I then tried the 030 configuration and changed the setting to 1x1 pixel
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- mode. The graphics suddenly brightened up to reveal so much detail#3More>>>
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- I wanted to cry and hug my accelerator. All the opponent cars
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- were in amazing detail, the background was extremely clear and the
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- road was a funny purpley, blue, grey colour which changed
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- very nicely as if it was made of marble (like a ray-traced road),
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- it looked very impressive.
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- I had the frame rate at 50 frames per second which is the highest.
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- banana skins!! @5 That made the game run at a perfect
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- throughout the race, honestly, it was
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- brilliant.
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- It's amazing how that extra power
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- made a typical crap game with #3More>>>
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- shite graphics look brilliant, not to
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- mention play slightly better.
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- The game sees you racing around track with several other opponents
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- (7 not including yourself). The idea is to obviously finish first, but
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- along the way you can pick up extra items such as banana skins,
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- explosives, turbo boosts, gizmos which make your car jump high in to the
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- air and a whole load of other things. To pick up these extras you
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- must drive over a question mark and then wait and see what you've got.
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- pressing fire will activate the extras, the downside is that you can
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- only use it once.
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- It has to be said that this game has a Mario Kart feel to it, but
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- not having played Mario Kart I couldn't draw comparisons. #3More>>>@5
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- Xtreme racing is very difficult to get to grips with at first i.e
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- sliding round corners, but in saying that it isn't so difficult it
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- puts you off, quite the opposite, it's so much fun trying to get
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- those tight bends just right, that you want to keep having another go to
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- master it. Don't you just love those, `just one more go' games?
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- Overall, I would say that this game is going to be a cracker, it
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- pees all over Virtual Karting, in fact Xtreme racing is what Virtual
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- Karting should have been. I strongly advise people to buy this
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- game as soon as it hits the shops, I have played the demo and it
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- was brilliant, just imagine what the full game is going to be like!!
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- Preview scores:
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- Graphics: 92% really does set it apart from V.K
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- Sound: 85% not bad at all, could have more variation, but this will
- almost certainly be cleared up on the full game.
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- Addictiveness: 90%
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- Playability: 89%
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- Overall: 89% bound to be very popular, plus the fact that it
- offers something extra for people with accelerators.
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- Price will be between 25 - 29 pounds.
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