Looking at Fabrice's video again I cant help but thinking: man, this had the potention to be the best racing game of its era if they would have tweaked it and tweaked it and tweaked it....like Atari did on f.i. Asteroids.
What Cinematronics did right is clear enough:
- the road moves very fluently, unseen until then
- the car racing on the other side of the track towards you
- the scenery stuff, IIRC there are cows, hitchhikers and even birds flying in the sky.....truelly a first in racing games....
Where they failed is at the fine tuning. Too quickly you seem to crash for no reason, it is almost uncontrollable already in third gear. Meaning gaining speed again, going through the gears only to crash yet again in no time. It frustrates even during the first game, but it makes you feel the game is at fault and not you !.........
If they would have teamed up with the game designers at Atari this would have been a killer racing game.....
