Hey gamers
Quite possibly the greatest licensed soundtrack ever assembled. So many hits in here - you got Denial by Sevendust, you got Crush by Anthrax, you got Them Bones by Alice in Chains, you got Spoonman by Soundgarden (which is sped up for some reason), you got Click by Ultraspank, and so many others. So so good.
Even putting my nostalgia aside, and after becoming comfortable with the controls, ATV Offroad Fury 1 remains a fun racing game. I usually prefer more arcadey racing games (e.g. Mario Kart) rather than realistic simulators (e.g. Gran Turismo), but this rides that line between the two. There's a fun level of strategy in the races here: deciding to take turns wide or cut them close, preload the suspension or not, etc. At the same time, the game lets you do tricks and ram into your opponents to get them to crash. It's a balance that I think works and, from what I can remember, is improved in the third game. Might play that soon, idk.
I don't care about the enduro races as the track design gets really boring after the first lap. Also, this might sound like blasphemy, but I didn't find the free-roam modes as interesting as the track races. There's a pittance of unique geometry in the open areas to mess around in; fun for a few minutes, but the novelty wears off fast. That being said, the way the game launches your character into the air when you go out of bounds never gets old.
The maxed-out ATV the game awards you with when beating the career mode completely breaks the game.
Quite possibly the greatest licensed soundtrack ever assembled. So many hits in here - you got Denial by Sevendust, you got Crush by Anthrax, you got Them Bones by Alice in Chains, you got Spoonman by Soundgarden (which is sped up for some reason), you got Click by Ultraspank, and so many others. So so good.
Even putting my nostalgia aside, and after becoming comfortable with the controls, ATV Offroad Fury 1 remains a fun racing game. I usually prefer more arcadey racing games (e.g. Mario Kart) rather than realistic simulators (e.g. Gran Turismo), but this rides that line between the two. There's a fun level of strategy in the races here: deciding to take turns wide or cut them close, preload the suspension or not, etc. At the same time, the game lets you do tricks and ram into your opponents to get them to crash. It's a balance that I think works and, from what I can remember, is improved in the third game. Might play that soon, idk.
I don't care about the enduro races as the track design gets really boring after the first lap. Also, this might sound like blasphemy, but I didn't find the free-roam modes as interesting as the track races. There's a pittance of unique geometry in the open areas to mess around in; fun for a few minutes, but the novelty wears off fast. That being said, the way the game launches your character into the air when you go out of bounds never gets old.
The maxed-out ATV the game awards you with when beating the career mode completely breaks the game.
not good
It's okay, would recommend 2 and 3 over this personally.