Top Gear Overdrive

THE GOOD:
-The tracks
-The cars
-The fun
-Multiplayer with "co-op"
-Graphics WERE good
-Can be played over and over again
-Not realistic at all, so pure fun

THE BAD:
-Short
-One difficult level
-Realistic is an unknown word for this game...

SUMMARY:
This game is not realistic, and that makes it fun. It got only 6 tracks. But that makes it fun, you learn them forward and mirrored, discover alternate routes, secrets and so on.

The fun in this game is in "Season" mode. You play 1-4 players and completing all 6 season unlocks new cars like a sausage(!) and a taco(!). This is really fun in multiplayer, thousands of hours I've used on this! Its just pure fun. Its easy to learn too. And you can color your car in twisted colors. A really cool game that I still play to this date. People looking for a realistic car sim, this aint your game....

THE GOOD:
Cool cars. That's it!

THE BAD:
Cars are very sensitive to blowing up. Plus no Time Attack feature.

SUMMARY:
I get a feeling every few minutes that, in the game, some dude's car blew up, and they hurled their controller across the room just because they nicked some slab of rock. It's quite fun though, but with only two cars to begin with, it doesn't give you much of a choice. And every racing game should have a Time Attack mode. This didn't.

THE GOOD:
Cool cars. That's it!

THE BAD:
Cars are very sensitive to blowing up. Plus no Time Attack feature.

SUMMARY:
I get a feeling every few minutes that, in the game, some dude's car blew up, and they hurled their controller across the room just because they nicked some slab of rock. It's quite fun though, but with only two cars to begin with, it doesn't give you much of a choice. And every racing game should have a Time Attack mode. This didn't.

THE GOOD:
It is fast and smooth
Great graphics
Well-designed tracks
Cool cars
Good control
decent replay-value

THE BAD:
Pretty glitchy
Few tracks
Bad car-noise

SUMMARY:
Graphics: Very good, with great backgrounds and cars, it moves fast and remains smooth. Nice indeed.

Sound: The music is pretty good, but the car-noises does not sound at all realistic, which is a down-point.

Gameplay: Control of the cars is good, the tracks are well-designed and the cars got a high cool-factor. Downside is that the game is glitchy and that there are few tracks available. Still, the gameplay is clearly a strong-point for the game, no doubt.

Lifespan: Pretty short game, but got good replay-value thanks to a good multiplayer among other things.

Overall: A very good driving-game that comes of with my recommendation.

With all the racing games out there, it is hard to decide which one to get. Since Gran Tourismo is not for the Nintendo 64 then what should you get? Well if you are thinking about Top Gear Overdrive, then just think again. There are only six tracks for you to memorise, which can be done in no time and only 14 cars. This may seem like a decend amount, but you have to think, Gran Tourismo 2 had well over 600! The game looks real nice and is relativly easy to control and handle. The only real bad thing about this game is it is in an oversaturated genre and there is nothing that Top Gear Overdrive can provide to you that no other game can. A racing fan might want to get this game if he can find it for relativly cheap, other than that, don't worry about the game.