You can perform a lean, a fast steer, and slow steer, and use three ways to attack fellow riders and cops: kick, punch, and swing. And you will need to learn those attacks quickly, because things get nasty in a violent-but-so-much-fun Carmageddon kind of way. The premise of the game is that you take part in a series of illegal races on roads across the USA.
This means it's a free for all once you hit the road. If you don't have a weapon, you can even grab one off the other racers if you are quick enough. Naturally, since the races are illegal, you will have to avoid or fight cops who will show up on your tail. Another feature of illegal races is that nobody cordons off the streets to block traffic for the racers, so you will have to avoid hitting pedestrians or run into cars along the way.
While I will always have a soft spot for the original Sega Genesis version of the game, it was ported to other consoles eventually such as the 3DO and the original PlayStation with better graphics, presentation, and sound so they are also worth checking out. Bikes and violence tend to go together, thanks to Hell's Angels and those weird people from the Saturn car commercials.
Putting them together deliberately has long been the job of Electronic Arts, with its bestselling series of Road Rash games. The original Genesis game caused a huge stir when it was released several years ago.
This latest Saturn conversion of the game is no disappointment. The graphics, although not quite as silky as in the previous PlayStation incarnation, are certainly a lot better than the 3DO game's visuals. Smooth-scrolling road terrain flashes past as you attempt to dismount competing racers with maximum force. Race game though it certainly is at heart, Road Rash could never be described as a sport, since none of your activities are particularly sportsmanlike.
The wealth of options is useful, but the handiest of all is the inclusion of a simultaneous two-player, split-screen game. In two-player mode, Road Rash is elevated from an interesting diversion to an all-out road-war. The strategy involved in arcing and fighting your way through the various tracks is super- snse. You can also block out your opponent by trapping him behind you. In short, the possibilities are limitless. One of the coolest things about Road Rash is the soundtrack.
This extra musical dimension was obviously missing from the Genesis game, but the CD consoles have music by the bucketful, as well as some totally bitchin' sound effects. The Saturn version in particular sounds very crisp and clear. Trying to spot the difference between this and the PlayStation version is not an easy task. Electronic Arts is really starting to come through with the goods for Saturn owners, and after a fairly quiet year thanks to the long delay of Madden for' PlayStation it finally looks like the boys are back in town.
Fighting may be cool, but it's not always the smartest thing to do. If you're concentrating on trying to beat an opponent, you could well lose your place in the overall race.
A far smarter strategy is to concentrate on racing first and fighting second. If someone's getting in your way, attack 'em with any force necessary, by all means; otherwise, avoid them. Also, like any racing game, try to find the racing line through corners. Fans who are still itching for the radical Road Rash action they found on the Genesis will welcome this one-meg Game Boy cart.
Riding high-performance bikes and brandishing clubs and chains, gamers take on 15 other competitors in one-player races.
Your behind-the-bike view shows you five rough-and-tumble Western locations such as the Palm Desert, Sierra Nevada mountains, and Pacific Coast. I figured it'd be another watered-down kid's game. I was wrong. While Road Rash on the Game Boy isn't quite as robust as recent installments on home systems which is to be expected to a degree , it does a great job at providing the experience in handheld form.
In fact, it reminds me of the Genesis version of Road Rash. The title has a ton of bikes to buy once you work your way up the ranks of the money winners, and plenty of racers and cops to knock around with different types of weapons it's hard to see the difference in the weapons though. The scaling effect on tracks is the game's most impressive feature--you have to see it to believe it.
Also the control is surprisingly solid for being digital. Thankfully, the game is quite challenging too, so you're kept on your toes most of the time. The courses aren't terribly different however, so the races do get boring after awhile. Of course you can always bust out a Link Cable and go for some two-player fun. It's a lazy Saturday afternoon, and little Johnny and his friends are sitting around trying to think up something to do.
Bobby and Suzy don brass knuckles and Ricky snags a Louisville Slugger from the toy box as the sound of revving dirt bikes roars across the neighborhood. Just some kids out for a nice afternoon of beating the living hell out of each other, or something more sinister?
If you have any shred of political correctness in you, you should NOT buy this game Finally, if you are the parent of a young Johnny or Suzy who already owns a dirt bike and a bad attitude, you may wish to purchase something a little less inciting than Road Rash.
The opening screen for the game even goes so far as to feature a lengthy disclaimer, similar to what MTV added to episodes of Beavis and Butt-head following the, ah, excesses of some of their viewers.
This first joint project from Electronic Arts and Papyrus -- the kings of racing games -- scores some points for audio achievement and gameplay, but has some noticeable weak points, the adolescent-toned overkill throughout definitely being one of them. Well, I've got to start here, because in a word, they're ridiculous! Yes, even Grandma has a Pentium in her Packard Bell these days, but on my P Road Rash jerked and hopped and choked in x full screen mode and the videos never ran no matter what settings I tried to coax from my nearly brand new ATI Xpression.
Simply inexcusable given the talents of EA and Papyrus We are looking into these problems with EA and will let you know what we find out.
This went fairly smoothly until the game installed the DirectX drivers; then everything went black On rebooting it popped Windows 95 into safe mode and it took me a good 20 minutes to resolve all the conflicts and get back to almost normal. And I work with Windows 95 everyday, so let the less technologically savvy out there install at their own risk.
Pretty standard fare: joystick or keyboard. My SideWinder did fine, but has to be recalibrated each time before entering the game or the game options screen has a seizure and I can just about forget about playing. Keyboard controls are straightforward, but pretty inadequate for driving a motorcycle.
Guess that's why they build 'em with throttles and not ALT keys It's no secret that EA and Papyrus are the forces to be reckoned with in racing games, and they nearly come through again here -- the racing model is almost entirely taken from The Need for Speed , with the nice additions of crossroads, merging traffic, stop lights and hapless pedestrians. Another nice touch is, of course, the weapons at your disposal. While there are no double-barreled shotguns or heat-seeking missiles, there are baseball bats, chains and nightsticks.
At the outset, you're unarmed and must kick and punch your way past better-armed opponents, but, you quickly figure out that if you swing at a fellow thug at the right time, you can grab his weapon and use it against him -- including the cops and their nightsticks.
It makes for an interesting battle to be traveling at MPH beating on a cop with a chain while he beats at you with his nightstick, and some other punk is trying to kick your bike out from under you. Clearly this aspect of the game was given the most attention in the development cycle as I'll explain below. It's odd that EA and company didn't call this game Awesome Music You've got Soundgarden, Hammerbox, Swervedriver, Therapy? The music sets a dark, driving, totally appropriate tone for the game, but is actually a bit too mature for the ridiculous illustrations and otherwise childish tones elsewhere in the game.
SVGA x mode is really nice to look at, but I guess it takes a P or better to get it to run smoothly enough to play decently. In x mode it runs very nicely, but it looks kind of like an impressionist version of motorcycle racing at that resolution.
Maybe I'll go computer shopping and see what I can get This is a very cool feature in Road Rash It doesn't let you do much beyond that, but the variety in bike style and performance makes this an interesting feature and makes each race take on more significance, as you are not only often learning how to tweak a new bike for maximum performance, you're also trying to rack up wins to get enough money for that really sleek red machine back in the bike shop.
Nothing to write home about. In the first few races each race course gets longer as you progress through the classes, from road-rat to accomplished thug the other racers are easy to beat as long as you stay upright and the cross-traffic doesn't pick you off. As you progress, though, they get better -- not in knocking you off your bike so much as they get faster and more able until, like other EA and Papyrus racers, they can basically beat you just by showing up I'd tell you about playing against human opponents, but I could never even get the modem interface to recognize my modem, much less dial out, so maybe it's cool.
The interface sure isn't. Road Rash is a great concept carried to an extreme, both in hardware requirements and juvenile attitude. With the likes of EA and Papyrus behind this title, it should have had the best of both companies' impressive qualities; instead it seems to have carried over the worst mistakes of their past racing titles -- Papyrus' blocky graphics and EA's recurring hardware-compatibility difficulties.
Still, even with its drawbacks, I did find myself playing it for quite a few hours and having quite a bit of fun.
Overall I rate it a So much promise We've received a lot of feedback about this review, mostly from people who haven't had any problems with the game and wonder why it was only rated a Most of those who wrote in suggested we get a different video card to test the game on.
In fact, the game was tested on three separate machines, all of which had trouble with the graphics. We have subsequently tested the game on a machine running a Matrox Millennium and it ran fine. These cards all perform admirably with almost every other title we have tested on them, but not with Road Rash.
It is fine for our readership to suggest to us that we test a game on numerous video cards, processors, etc. Surprise, surprise, surprise--Road Rash on the PlayStation. This game has all of the spills and thrills of the other Road Rash titles.
If you love fast-action motorcycle racing, then this game is for you. It will be available for the Sony PlayStation when the system is launched Sept. The game has all of your favorite bikes and some new weapons five of them in fact that will help you get back at the guy who just knocked you off your bike or rudely cut you off.
If you're a Road Rash fan, you'll want to kick start your PlayStation library with this game. Road signs and trees also act as obstacles. If you fall off the bike, the protagonist himself will get on the bike and continue the race. But it will lose the time it takes to win. Vehicles have a strength scale that cannot be lowered to zero. Heroes fight with fists, feet, clubs, tire iron, etc.
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