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10 obese Ferraris, a woman who will be satisfied over and over again and fast-paced music with full speed are the main ingredients in SEGA's latest release on Xbox Live Arcade front. Outrun Online Arcade Building on the familiar and popular arcade racing series, and there is no reason to stay away for Outrun Online Arcade is one of the year's best arcade titles.
A clicheOutrun The first game was released as arcade machine back in 1986 and quickly became a huge success. The game was technically revolutionary in many ways. The player was physically located in a machine that moved, and you steered with a steering wheel with force feedback, there was the shift lever and foot pedals for accelerator and brake. In addition, put the graphics also new standards for car racing, and music, most who played Outrun in the 80s, still humming along.
Since then a number of sequels released, the latest in the series and No. 8 in the series is 3 years old, Outrun 2006: Coast 2 Coast, and it is also this game, Outrun Online Arcade resembles most. In fact, courts virtually a faith (but graphically optimized) copy of the 15 tracks in the Coast 2 Coast. Now, you might then think that because might as well buy the predecessor to the old Xbox, but fortunately has a great deal since then.
Basic gameplay is however the same, you control one of 10 Ferraris and can choose between automatic or manual transmission. The route consists of 5 checkpoints. At each checkpoint you must choose whether to take the track to the right or left and the game consists of a total of 15 different courses. The road is filled with cars and it is important to get the finish as quickly as possible, before time runs out. This is the familiar and traditional Outrun gameplay as we know from all the iterations in the series. It works excellent, steering is quite traditional for a racing game but feels really good for an arcade title, and it's fun drifting around the sharp turns.
New InitiativesThe game features leaderboards for all destinations, in addition to leaderboards for the new game modes. This is especially Heart Attack mode a little differently than just running the race. You drive the same way as in Outrun mode but the woman who sits beside you as a passenger, is difficult and provides a permanent challenge, and you have really strict on the way to satisfy her. For example, you must overtake a number of cars on a section of the route, one should operate on market readiness areas on the pitch or even frame some ghosts that suddenly appear on the pitch. All this is fun and an excellent ingredient in an otherwise already functioning cocktail.
Time Attack mode is a second game mode, whilst being just a bit outside the conventional Outrun mode. You can choose either a default route, which consists of 5 tracks, or you can select "Time Attack Mode 15 cont. Course "where you have to go through all the game's 15 tracks. Here we must therefore run on time, and especially the game's achievements, which gives this game mode extra long life. The developers have namely been so vicious that, for the toughest achievements, must run almost flawlessly through the entire route, which for yours truly required minimum 75 attempts, but look was in turn much larger since it finally succeeded. Leaderboards allowing a comparison with your online friends are also extending this particular game mode.
Of course it is also possible to drive online against your friends. Up to 6 players can participate in a race and you have the option to turn from collisions and also choose which route to drive. The online component runs virtually lagfrit and acts generally excellent.
A technical boostThe graphics in Outrun Online Arcade resembles its predecessor Coast 2 Coast but is naturally optimized for Xbox 360 There are still a lot of retro graphic style, but the level of detail is high and surprisingly nice for an arcade title. The game runs completely liquid, and good and effective in-game menus do that the game is fast and easy to navigate in.
Outrun has always been known for its excellent music, and the familiar tunes from their predecessors is also included again. They work incredibly well, the tempo is high and compositions perfectly to race to.
Vroom ...Outrun Online Arcade is an excellent alternative to expensive retail titles in arcade racing genre. To 72 million can not complain about the price, and besides the traditional game modes, the game now features online races and leaderboards. The graphics are of high class and well-known and fast-paced music sits right in the closet. There are plenty of gaming for money, and you go after the game's achievements, one can expect many extra hours with both frustration and enjoyable entertainment.
All one could desire, was far more lanes, but overall, Outrun Online Arcade highly recommended and is definitely one of the year's best arcade titles.
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