Placing in the top three earns you cash and the right to race on another track. The car-versus-car fighting's all right, but maneuvering your racer and jamming the trigger button is definitely a thumb-spraining experience.
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There are no brakes (any decent race driver shouldn't need them anyway), but you can't drive off the road, so there's no danger of crashing to spice up the challenge.
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However, hard-core drivers will crave more sophisticated road racing action.īasically, you just stomp on the accelerator button and go. Mastering the controls and the car's heads-up displays (HUDs) is a breeze for anyone who's ever run a video racer, thanks to the game's simple, intuitive design. Once you make it onto the track, the ride gets a little bumpy. Moreover, the disc's music doesn't rock beyond the ordinary.
C & B doesn't push the effects, outside of some cool weapons fire. The sounds are curiously subdued for a high-powered CD game. At least their rantings are crystal CD clear, and you can plan your strategy by what they say. Radiation levels must really play havoc with the hormones because these ego-maniacal nuts are in a foaming-at-the-mouth frenzy to drive you into the dirt. Actors in bizzare costumes (and off-Broadway makeup) play the digitized competitors with over-the-top performances. The creative character selection screen puts on a mini-show of its own. You pick one and drive against the others. These wacked-out road warriors are straight from the Weirdo School of Driving. At least they make up for your lonesome ride by supplying six weirded-out CPU raceheads. Unfortunately, this is a singleplayer game, and Crystal Dynamics really missed the bus there. For example, on the transparent tracks, you can look right through the road surface! The quick animation makes the roadway race past you, but wait until you hit the banks and loops! You fight centrifugal force and your sense of balance as the view turns 180 or 360 degrees. Also, the expansive outdoor horizons are knockouts, with brilliant colors and beautiful cloud patterns! Hey, nuclear fallout looks good in the atmosphere anyway.Įvery track features a unique look. Keep Your Eyes on this RoadĪs expected, Crash 'N Burn's 3DO graphics will make your eyes bug out. As in most racing games, you take your best shot.but expect someone to shoot back here! Winning strategies require sharp driving skills and a sharpshooter's eye. The blood-and-guts driving burns rubber across six circuits, consisting of 30 tracks. You sit low, right down on the roadway, and with the awesome 3DO graphics, you can practically feel the ground whizzing just a few inches below you. However, put yourself in the driver's seat and you're in for a slick ride. The car movement from this angle is stilted and distracting. Lose the behind-the-car racing as soon as you can. You can use two views to race: behind-the-car and behind-the-wheel.
However, despite an atomic story line cooked by the heat of a thousand suns, the disc and its features run from hot to lukewarm.Ĭrash 'n Burn is the first 3DO game to hit the market.that's because it comes bundled with Panasonic's 3DO REAL Multiplayer! Buckle up to experience the most outrageous racing graphics you've ever seen in a home system! Then the A-bomb's shock wave sends a million jagged shards of glass slicing through the air!Īrmageddon? Nuclear terrorists? Extraterrestrial invaders? No way! It's just the 3DO equivalent of the starter's flag for Crystal Dynamic's radioactive auto racing game, Crash 'n Burn. Scene 2: The streets of a futuristic city sit in antiseptic silence. There's a tremendous roar, and an ominous dark mushroom cloud mars the vista.
Suddenly, a blinding flash of light obliterates the view.