Burning Road is an arcade racing game, heavily influenced by Daytona USA. There are four types of cars to drive: two muscle cars, a drag car and a monster truck, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. There are three different courses to drive on (a wooded area, city streets and snow area) and also have a reverse track variation that can be unlocked. The object is not only to finish ahead of opponents, but also cross checkpoints in order to add more time to the ever depleting timer at the top of the screen.
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Burning Road can best be described as a French version of Daytona USA, it rips off everything from the UI to having someone sing the title of the game during the race.
The original music would sound fine if it weren't for the absolutely laughable singing by some chick that was working at Toka's offices at the time, it's so stupid that no one seems to have even bothered to upload it to Youtube. Thankfully they seemed to have made a new soundtrack which the game starts up with by default. It ditches the corny singing entirely for the better, and it just goes straight up 80s hair metal guitar shredding. It's a drastic improvement, nothing as iconic as Daytona USA obviously, but I'm a massive sucker for any good sounding guitar noise. The announcer also changes from a barely audible heavily-accented guy (French I assume) to some snarky asshole who imitates Jim Carrey by going "alrighty then!" sometimes when selecting a car. One time I finished 6th, and he went "yeah...ya finished sixth" in a sarcastic tone. Jerk.
The game itself is the absolute embodiment of okay, it's so okay that if a country were called "Okay" it'd probably use this game's cover art as it's flag. I would sure hope so, because I actually bothered to go through the trouble of digging my ancient twitch account out of the dumpster to upload it to IGDB. That's right, it took a forgettable Daytona clone on PS1 that I rented from Hollywood Video back then to finally get me to make a worthwhile contribution to IGDB/Backloggd. I even uploaded screenshots and got the actual developer credited on here!
Way too much trouble probably, but I got tired of not seeing cover art for it, may also be a bad thing in the long run, because that means if I'm in the rare mood of being creatively shitty I'll start uploading garbage Jeff the Killer games to IGDB. Look forward to it.
The original music would sound fine if it weren't for the absolutely laughable singing by some chick that was working at Toka's offices at the time, it's so stupid that no one seems to have even bothered to upload it to Youtube. Thankfully they seemed to have made a new soundtrack which the game starts up with by default. It ditches the corny singing entirely for the better, and it just goes straight up 80s hair metal guitar shredding. It's a drastic improvement, nothing as iconic as Daytona USA obviously, but I'm a massive sucker for any good sounding guitar noise. The announcer also changes from a barely audible heavily-accented guy (French I assume) to some snarky asshole who imitates Jim Carrey by going "alrighty then!" sometimes when selecting a car. One time I finished 6th, and he went "yeah...ya finished sixth" in a sarcastic tone. Jerk.
The game itself is the absolute embodiment of okay, it's so okay that if a country were called "Okay" it'd probably use this game's cover art as it's flag. I would sure hope so, because I actually bothered to go through the trouble of digging my ancient twitch account out of the dumpster to upload it to IGDB. That's right, it took a forgettable Daytona clone on PS1 that I rented from Hollywood Video back then to finally get me to make a worthwhile contribution to IGDB/Backloggd. I even uploaded screenshots and got the actual developer credited on here!
Way too much trouble probably, but I got tired of not seeing cover art for it, may also be a bad thing in the long run, because that means if I'm in the rare mood of being creatively shitty I'll start uploading garbage Jeff the Killer games to IGDB. Look forward to it.