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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
A good-natured, artificially sweetened arcade snack , 3 May 2006
Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars
For the first few plays, this is old-skool arcade gold, but an important aspect of arcade games was that your money ran out before your interest. With unlimited plays available, it's difficult not to get a bit bored with OutRun Coast-to-Coast 2006 if you play it for hours on end. As long as you know this, however, Coast-to-Coast this is still a good game and worth a purchase. It's like the video game equivalent of a Milky Way bar: you can play it between proper games without ruining your appetite. A sweet treat that's nice once in a while, but not especially satisfying. It doesn't cause too much frustration and irritation, either, so the likelihood is that long term replay value will be quite high. Again, analogies to childhood food spring to mind. Coast-to-Coast is like Heinz Tomato Soup: it's nice, unsophisticated, unchallenging and sort of comforting. You'll enjoy it every time you have it, but you won't want it that often. Perhaps when you've got a cold or something.
The heart attack missions, where you have to impress your girlfriend passenger by hitting the ghosts, dodging the UFOs and such like, are a lot of fun, and make a change from the beat-the-clock stages of the arcade original.
You have free reign over unlockable content, because you are awarded with credits for good performance in races which you can 'spend' any way you like. This detracts slightly from the linearity of the game.
The graphics are an artificially-coloured sunny delight, with a good variety of colourful and slightly barmy courses ranging from the inevitable beach scene to misty mountains and starlit fantasy roads. There are 30 tracks in total, which sounds like a lot, but unfortunately they are quite short. There are unlockable options to play all the tracks in reverse. The control of the car is very arcadey: you don't so much steer as switch sides of the road. All of the cars, including the one you drive, look more like animated sprites than 3D objects, which gives the game a very retro look and feel.
Unfortunately there is no split screen multiplayer option, which seems like a mean-spirited omission in an otherwise good-natured game. Surely this is not such a complex game that the X-Box can't double-up?
One for the young or the young at heart. Well worth a punt.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Driving fun, 23 Nov 2006
Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars
Great game, you can play two kinds of outrun, outrun 2 sp I like, you can have the usual outrun game and the great game where you have to impress your girlfriend (TYPICAL), by doing things like bumping into cones and driving past cars and not hitting anything and collecting coins and hitting ghosts, yes ghosts, hearing her say things like your great and I've got chills, puts a smile on your face, yes I really should get out more and get myself a real girlfriend, and the way after you have done what she asks it says a, b, c etc to show you how you have done, there is drifting which you do buy accelarating and when you go round the corner brake and accelarate at the same time and you will find your car turning on its side while if you steer well, you go forward, and of course the regular out run is here, ok so there are only five stages you go through to get to the end, there are 25 different scenes to play through, so you could go left all the time or left then right then left, or right, then left etc so you can play all different scenes, the graphics are brillant, and very very fast you appear to be travelling, of course only speeding on a games machine is fun. Great fun, not only for those of us who remember the arcade classic.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
this game rocks....., 10 April 2006
Well this is old school arcade racing at it's best. Love the Ferraris, love the scenery, graphics are smooth and crisp, the game runs smoothly, tracks are fun and the origianl soundtracks are ok, so get ready to use the custom soundtrack option much better having ur own music playing as you rip up the various themed tracks, Overall love it... but it does get abit repetative if you play too much, hence the 4 stars. recommended.
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