The game also has four player split-screen play. I mean, the graphics aren't the equal of, say Rush 2049, if just because the detail, size, and scale of the environments is a lot smaller, but the framerate is high and absolutely stable at all times, and the environments more than nice enough looking to keep you interested. Indeed, for anyone who says that the N64 can't do racing games that both have great, fairly detailed graphics and a great framerate, this is a great game to show. I love Rush so I actually liked this, Rush-like detonating cars are amusing.Īlso, despite the very nice graphics, high resolution (expansion pak required, this was one of the first games to support it), and many layers of filters, lights, and other graphical effects, the framerate is absolutely rock-solid. Oh, and the cars explode in Rush-like fireballs too, whenever you go off the track or hit something when going too fast. overall, a great, very fun game! It even has EEPROM-based on-cart saving, which is awesome for a third-party N64 game! The other three N64 Top Gear games all require controller paks to save, but not this one. ) a great sense of speed (you really do feel like you're going really fast in the later cars!) pretty good, interesting, and varied track designs great arcade-style skiddy car control where you always feel like despite how you skid everywhere when controlled right you have perfect control over where the car goes, if you enter the turn correctly and perhaps occasionally slow down fun low-gravity physics with the cars' Rush-like ability to fly into the air with the slightest bump and tracks full of shortcuts (they are admittedly much tamer in design than Rush shortcuts, but still, finding and using the shortcuts is a lot of fun, and is an essential part of your quest to get the best time in each track so you can catch up to the leading group and win the race) a nice variety of cars to unlock as you progress five main tracks, each with various weather modes (Day, Night, Rainstorm, Winter), and a mirror mode as well as sixth, final, track at the end of the game and music with vocal audio (Yes, six music tracks, all with full vocal audio, in a cartridge game!). ![]() It has exceptional graphics for the system, with high resolution support (640x240, not the full 640x480 resolution the system could do, but still, a lot better than the standard 320x240!), fantastic, highly detailed textures, lots of filters, and more (it's so shiny looking. You use the money to buy upgrades and boosts for your car, and upgrade your car once you have enough money for the next vehicle. You can also earn bonus cash by driving over money points. The tracks all have shortcuts to find, and along the way you can use boosts which you either buy between races or collect on boost-collection points on the tracks. The game has fifteen cars, ten that you unlock as you progress through the game, each slightly better than the last and BLATANTLY copied off of real-world cars (seriously, if these weren't licensed, it sort of seems amazing that they could get away with copying the designs so closely.) and five more amusing secret ones that you receive upon finishing the game, or with a cheat code if you're impatient. You don't race track six until the very last race of the game in the later seasons they fill in the schedule with mirror mode versions of the main five courses. The single player mode is broken up into seasons, and you play through six seasons, the first three races long and each subsequent one one race longer than the last. ![]() ![]() Top Gear Overdrive is a racing game with six tracks. It's quite good, probably better than I was expecting, or at least at least as good I had been hoping that I'd like it, and I do. While I got the game last November, I just finished it today, after playing through half of the game.
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