Monday, August 11, 2008
Racing review
I have been slacking throughout the weekends doing nothing productive. Besides eating and sleeping(of course), I have been playing my psp. Lately, there are not much of games to play. Then, a friend of mine, Colin introduced me to play some racing game called Initial D. I have played several racing games myself. The list is:
Outrun 2007 or 2008
Juiced 2
Need For Speed-Own The City
The graphic of Outrun is good but there is no storyline. The challenges there are not quite interesting to me.(Burst Balloons, pass over cars without hitting them) It is a big map with places scattered around and you are looking at the old things normally.
Need for speed’s story is ok and the fun parts are that you can call drivers to do some nice stuff like putting spikes or increasing your speed. The game is relatively too easy at the start but at the end, it is harder. By the time, you played that long. You are sick of its game play. For people who hate drifting, this is for you.
Juiced 2 is good because you feels like you are inside the game. No story again but challenges are relatively fun.(Eliminator, Drifting and one kind of race that if you win, you can get that someone’s car. If you lose, it is the other way round.)
Initial D Street Stage is the hardest compared to all the racing games down here and it is sensitive to the little movements you make in the psp. Just 1.5 seconds of holding the right movement pad would results you in hitting the wall. It also demands a high level of concentration because just hitting the wall once or twice would normally results you losing to the AI. Though there is a story, I cannot tell you how good the story because I do not learn Jap.
Sources:
http://ps2media.gamespy.com/ps2/image/article/708/708791/outrun-2006-coast-2-coast-20060515014418490.jpg
http://pspmedia.ign.com/psp/image/article/649/649758/initial-d-street-stage-20050909105113221.jpg