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Night Racer |
Copyright/Publisher: Mastertronic, Release Year: 1988,
Genre: Racing Sports,
Number Of Players: 1
The Intercontinental Rally Championship is hotting up! Half way through, most of
the competitors are still involved, so the organisers decide to thin the field...
The game is set over the night stage and the drivers are told that
explosives are to be fitted to a timer in their vehicles, a timer that can only
be defused at the official checkpoints.
You must drive your car through the dark pine forests, avoiding the other
cars and attempting to catch the yellow car of the race leader. But the stage
must be completed before the flashing timer runs out or...KER-BOOM!
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P.G. |
As a single player version of Pitstop II, minus the pits section, and set on a
darkened forest racetrack, Night Racer serves its purpose. However, that style
of game is now long outdated, with the Out Run's of this world in vogue.
A basic, follow-the-single-road, complete the stage in a set time style of
game with straightforward graphics is too outdated to generate interest or
excitemnt, especially as all stages are as near identical as makes no difference.
A competent Pole Position game isn't worth the time or money, unless you
don't have that sort of game already (unlikely). Spend your budget cash elsewhere.
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Gordon Houghton |
A person can only stand so many first-person driving games before getting
utterly sick of them and Night Racer pushes you in that direction. The 3D is
quite effective but unfortunelately is let down by poor car graphics and an
ineffective display.
The car is fairly responsive, but the cornering feels particularly sluggish.
This can be extremely annoying when you're trying to stear past another car.
Buggy Boy proved that the genre is not totally dead, but looking at this
game makes you think otherwise
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