This is a so called "racing game" that was developed by the same people that gave us the "masterpiece" that is Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing. This game isn't as bad as that game but it's still shit. This isn't even a fuckin' racing game. All you do in the game is pick up pedestrians and bring them wherever they tell you to go.
The driving physics are simply broken and turning is pretty much impossible to do. Not only is turning a pain in the ass to do, but almost every time you make a turn, you hit a wall. And when you hold down the acceleration, the car goes faster and faster to the point that it's like it has a jet engine on the back of it, it's faster than a Ferrari 275 for god sake.
And colliding with a building just sends it to an instant complete stop. Also, when you pull the handbrake, the car can also come to an instantaneous complete stop. I guess the developers didn't really understand how cars fucking work.
Also, when you hit street lights or trees, they just disappear from existence rather than just falling over, and your car is completely undamaged. It's not actually possible to destroy the car, you can drive through as many street lights and trees as you want to and not damage the car. Slamming 250 MPH into a building does nothing either, and there is no sound effect for hitting anything other than a street light or a tree. What is that logic?? And sometimes when you crash into a building, it also either crashes the game, or softlocks you.
The hit detection is also broken as well. Even if you are nowhere near the street lights or trees, you will still hit them, meaning you will be hearing that crashing sound for them over and over and over again, it will drive you fucking mad.
This is one of the ugliest games I have ever seen. This is a PC game from 2001 but it looks worse than 3D games that have come out on the Atari Jaguar. It looks like the developers just took a bunch of low quality JPEGs from 1995 Internet Explorer and slapped them into the game.
The building textures, the sky box, the water, and the cars you drive, they all look like JPEGs. The water looks especially awful. The clouds and the water also do not move. Also, when you drive off-road, you can actually see that some of the water doesn't even connect to the land, it's embarrassing.
The city is also completely empty. There are no pedestrians aside from the one pedestrian you have to pick up, which also looks like shit, and there are almost no other cars driving around. It's like that one episode of The Twilight Zone where this guy is the last man walking around on Earth. It's like a game where your character is suffering from chronic loneliness and he is trying to find humanity in himself by being a taxi driver, and all of the pedestrians that he picks up are just illusions in his mind.
This is one of the worst games ever, but it must have been a sick sense of foreshadowing, because the games this developer studio made later on were even worse than this. And I get a kick out of this because Big Rigs would probably not have existed without this game. So thank you. Game is still shit by the way.
1/10
The driving physics are simply broken and turning is pretty much impossible to do. Not only is turning a pain in the ass to do, but almost every time you make a turn, you hit a wall. And when you hold down the acceleration, the car goes faster and faster to the point that it's like it has a jet engine on the back of it, it's faster than a Ferrari 275 for god sake.
And colliding with a building just sends it to an instant complete stop. Also, when you pull the handbrake, the car can also come to an instantaneous complete stop. I guess the developers didn't really understand how cars fucking work.
Also, when you hit street lights or trees, they just disappear from existence rather than just falling over, and your car is completely undamaged. It's not actually possible to destroy the car, you can drive through as many street lights and trees as you want to and not damage the car. Slamming 250 MPH into a building does nothing either, and there is no sound effect for hitting anything other than a street light or a tree. What is that logic?? And sometimes when you crash into a building, it also either crashes the game, or softlocks you.
The hit detection is also broken as well. Even if you are nowhere near the street lights or trees, you will still hit them, meaning you will be hearing that crashing sound for them over and over and over again, it will drive you fucking mad.
This is one of the ugliest games I have ever seen. This is a PC game from 2001 but it looks worse than 3D games that have come out on the Atari Jaguar. It looks like the developers just took a bunch of low quality JPEGs from 1995 Internet Explorer and slapped them into the game.
The building textures, the sky box, the water, and the cars you drive, they all look like JPEGs. The water looks especially awful. The clouds and the water also do not move. Also, when you drive off-road, you can actually see that some of the water doesn't even connect to the land, it's embarrassing.
The city is also completely empty. There are no pedestrians aside from the one pedestrian you have to pick up, which also looks like shit, and there are almost no other cars driving around. It's like that one episode of The Twilight Zone where this guy is the last man walking around on Earth. It's like a game where your character is suffering from chronic loneliness and he is trying to find humanity in himself by being a taxi driver, and all of the pedestrians that he picks up are just illusions in his mind.
This is one of the worst games ever, but it must have been a sick sense of foreshadowing, because the games this developer studio made later on were even worse than this. And I get a kick out of this because Big Rigs would probably not have existed without this game. So thank you. Game is still shit by the way.
1/10