Anarchy: Rush Hour (PSN Review)
Anarchy: Rush Hour is a plucky little PSN game that has quite simply waltzed up to Burnout in a bar, spilt its drink, snogged its girlfriend then ran outside jumped into a car and sped off. After backing into Burnout’s ride first for good measure.
For £5.49 you won’t find a more interesting racer on the store. It’s really rough around the edges but, there’s a lot of fun in here too.
You’re a street racer in Russia and your girlfriend’s been kidnapped. There’s a couple of lo-res cutscenes but most of the thin story is borne out by text messages. The city has an open feel to it, but thankfully you can select your races from the menu, rather than driving to every start line.
Events are a mixture of Burnout and Midnight Club with lap races, A-Bs, checkpoint pickups, countdown, drag races, elimination, stunts, deathmatches and speed events where you have to maintain ever increasing speeds. Most of these events take place on the city streets that are stuffed with traffic. You can batter traffic out of the way, but while Burnout’s traffic checking was brilliantly clear with only larger vehicles causing you to crash the collisions here are totally unpredictable. This is the biggest problem the game faces, particularly with the huge amounts of traffic it throws at you. You’ll crash either landing on your side with you grinding along at 300KPH or you’ll just be spinning through the air holding L1 to ‘reset to track’.
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