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11-Aug-2007, 21:31
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<font size="1">added on August 11, 2007, at 21:31 by frostyice</font><br /><br /><table><tr valign="top"><td>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.</td><td><script type="text/javascript">google_ad_client = "pub-5821412950245701";google_alternate_color = "F5F5FF";google_ad_width = 336;google_ad_height = 280;google_ad_format = "336x280_as";google_ad_type = "text";google_ad_channel = "0725529317";google_color_border = "F5F5FF";google_color_bg = "F5F5FF";google_color_link = "22229C";google_color_text = "000000";google_color_url = "333333";</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script></td></tr></table><table cellpadding="15"><tr align="center"><td valign="bottom"><a href="http://www.allcdcovers.com/show/54135/outrun_2006_coast_2_coast_driving_2006_pal_retail_ dvd/front"><img src="/image_system/covers_th/3/c/3ceb500d8751f6bb637c151a3160f571.jpg" border="0"></a><br><strong><a href="http://www.allcdcovers.com/show/54135/outrun_2006_coast_2_coast_driving_2006_pal_retail_ dvd/front">front</a></strong><br><font size="1">2076 x 1398 px</font></td></tr></table>
<font size="1">added on August 11, 2007, at 21:31 by frostyice</font><br /><br /><table><tr valign="top"><td>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.</td><td><script type="text/javascript">google_ad_client = "pub-5821412950245701";google_alternate_color = "F5F5FF";google_ad_width = 336;google_ad_height = 280;google_ad_format = "336x280_as";google_ad_type = "text";google_ad_channel = "0725529317";google_color_border = "F5F5FF";google_color_bg = "F5F5FF";google_color_link = "22229C";google_color_text = "000000";google_color_url = "333333";</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script></td></tr></table><table cellpadding="15"><tr align="center"><td valign="bottom"><a href="http://www.allcdcovers.com/show/54135/outrun_2006_coast_2_coast_driving_2006_pal_retail_ dvd/front"><img src="/image_system/covers_th/3/c/3ceb500d8751f6bb637c151a3160f571.jpg" border="0"></a><br><strong><a href="http://www.allcdcovers.com/show/54135/outrun_2006_coast_2_coast_driving_2006_pal_retail_ dvd/front">front</a></strong><br><font size="1">2076 x 1398 px</font></td></tr></table>