Death Track: Resurrection (Review)
Last month I was pleasantly surprised with Gaijin Entertainment’s effort to tackle Burnout with Anarchy: Rush Hour. Well they’re off starting fights with the big boys again, stepping into Blur’s and Split/Second’s territory. Admittedly this game started off life on the PC and predates the newcomers.
So it’s a car-combat racing game with destructible environments set in the future. The tracks tear through the crumbling remains of (our modern day) versions of London, Bangkok, New York, Moscow, Prague and so on. The first thing you notice is how good the game looks for a PSN title. Although a little rough, there’s a lot of detail built into each track. They bristle with colour and run at a smooth frame-rate. It’s certainly a better looker than Anarchy. There are lots of branching routes and even short-cuts to unlock. Pretty impressive design overall.
Many buildings can be shot down as you race. To be honest I never saw one do any damage to another racer as they were supposed to. It would seem they’re only worth your precious ammo if you want the points bonus that goes with the debris. A good idea poorly executed.
Weapons come preloaded with your car instead of kart-racer-style pickups. The four face buttons attack with defensive (mines), light (gatling gun), heavy (rockets) and missile trap weapons. You can unlock more weapons to swap around and they do the job relatively well, with opposition cars not taking forever to explode.
The problems arise from the stingy amounts of ammo you get. Sure you can grab more as pickups on the track, but the bastards are constantly moving and the twitchy car handling does its best to make sure you miss them. The auto-targeting seems to think it’s a great idea to change to a different car just as your about to finish another one off too. You can manually flick through them on a loop, but someone else usually bags them while you’re trying to do this with the d-pad and steer with the left stick at the same time.
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