As well as the usual gifts of jazzy ties, plentiful piles of socks and sugary treats, this Christmas I got a copy of Mario Kart 7. Being a casual Mario Kart fan since Super Mario Kart on the SNES, I was pleased I could finally get some extended hands on time with the new game. I have always preferred the arcade style of racing games over the more realistic car simulators, for example I never got on with the likes [...]
The first ever game I got on the PlayStation 2 was The Simpsons: Road Rage, it came with the console and I didn’t think much of it at first. Now I am not one of these gamers who even likes games that are based off of hit comedy TV shows. But what I played the game I found out The Simpsons Road Rage had something that other games didn’t. It had charm, it had some great game play and was [...]
There are only so many ways you can make a racing game. You have the arcade racers, like Mario kart and burnout; and then you have the more ‘realistic’ titles such as Gran Truismo. Blur seems to be taking a little from both. Well, more like half Mario kart half and half GT. You have a range of popular car models with their particular strengths and weaknesses battling it out on a track, but with power ups not dissimilar to [...]
