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Onto the artificial intelligence of the computer-controlled road users, then, and it wasn't brilliant.

You know? Like when you're confined to a small lateral area, and the scenery is being shoved at you? Poo!Īnother slightly crap thing about the game engine was that it tended, occasionally, to give you that Cstreamed straight from cd' feeling. It was possible to drive Cthe wrong way', but in doing so you could only access the exterior car view, meaning you were constantly driving towards yourself, your joystick, and your monitor screen, with not a clue as to what bend or road vehicle was coming up next. Okay, due to the design of the game engine the roads could only be viewed from one direction. More: And there was more, but I want to end this paragraph and tell you what was crap about the game. Some of the crashes were stunning, and there was a comprehensive replay mode.įilth: Overtake a cop car at over ssmph and a car chase ensued, with you, obviously, as the chasee. Traffic: The selling point! Two way traffic! Cars to overtake on a blindĬorner at isomph, and, more importantly, oncoming cars to smash into on that same blind corner. (My fave was the Porsche, 'cos the back end was twitchy.)

Vouch for that, but I can add that they certainly differed greatly from one to another. All the cars, incidentally (or so they said), handled in a realistic manner. Six tracks: The Need For Speed contained six tracks, which doesn't sound like a particularly big deal until I tell you that three of these weren't 'closed circuits', but were in fact proper open roads.Įight vehicles: Or eight 'flash motors', of which could be bought - if rich enough - from real-life car showrooms: a Porsche 911, for example: a Ferrari something-or-other a Lamborghini Diablo: and so on. Who never even got to see the original game (even on the pc), maybe a brief outline would be in order. But that's a different story, so back to The Need For Speed, and just for those

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