Classic Sport Driving

Where to begin. 1st, the game design and graphics are nice but the scenery feels so empty. Game reminds me of Rad Racer mixed with Outrun wich I love. Career mode is just time trials. Other cars are simple obstacles. Breaks the point of a racing game. Some resolution artefacts here and there but the controls are the bad part. Ill take the words from another reviewer because its the best way to describe it, you control a cruise boat. Losing all racing feeling and fun because you always fight to come back in the race line. Wanted to like this one but was let down at the begining of the ride.

A brilliantly entertaining callback to Lotus Turbo Challenge and Top Gear. The mechanics of Classic Sport Driving are easy to pick up - right trigger to go, left stick to turn, left trigger to very occasionally slow down a bit - but putting them back down again is a much greater challenge. Get into the competitive weekly races and the real keys to success, carefully honing a racing line that lets you stay flat out on tighter corners while also collecting all of the nitros which are so essential to top positions, reveal themselves in engrossing fashion. For fans of 16-bit arcade racing in particular, this is an essential purchase.

Classic Sport Driving is as many great games are - easy to learn and difficult to master. There is a simplicity to it, from the menus and leaderboards to the ghost times and star pacers that I appreciate. The roads are windy and landscapes are open. What the game does, it does right. There's even a small active community of racers that will provide many additional challenges if the 16-race campaign doesn't provide enough. All in all, an appropriate name and a generous price point for the experience.

O jogo é viciante. Na onda de clássicos de fliperama, estilo Out Run, ou de clássicos como Lamborguini e Top Gear de Super Nintendo, o jogo prende pelo som e dirigibilidade simples, apesar do carro derrapar bastante, variando em climas e curvas desafiantes. Faltou apenas um upgrades no carro, bem como alguma coisa para aperfeiçoar, como esse detalhe de pneus escorregadios.

Extremely barebones racing game about worth its price; the very few things it decided to do, it did quite well, but then it started getting more and more difficult with seemingly no reward for it, and so it wiped off what little positive emotions I had about this game. It is an imitation of Super Scaler games like Lotus Turbo Challenge and the likes. You do time trials over linear tracks which, besides your own car, also have traffic which looks exactly like your car and which act like nothing more than obstacles which occasionally swerve in your way, and nitro boosters which immediately give your car a short boost, and roadside obstacles like trees and stones and turn markers. Yeah, that's it. The first couple of tracks can be beaten with three stars basically without even lifting your foot from the gas pedal, but in the closer you get to the last cup, the more careful you have to be while entering the corners. Which would be a fine progression, except the game is either really, really bad about letting you know about the turn coming, or there was a deliberate decision to make the corners obscured from your view. The tracks are hilly, and the view is set up in such a way that you can't see if there's a turn coming when you're going uphill, and then you can't really judge how long and sharp the turn is and how much braking do you need to apply, so you would usually end up flying off-track. You don't have co-driver to shout the turns at you as if it was a regular rally, the turn marker signs usually appear too late for you to know that the turn is coming, so the game turns into trial-and-error where you replay the track over and over again to learn its turns one-by-one, and the tracks are like 5+ minutes long each. And then the later tracks are set at night, because the game really doesn't want you to see anything. The stars, I am not sure what is the reward for getting all of them, I quite doubt it is worth it, but the requirement for getting all three of them in the later levels is set a bit too tight. I somehow got within the top 10 in the global rankings in a few of the later levels, and even then I felt like I was mere seconds away from failing the three stars requirement, even if the game doesn't display how much that requirement is, unless you're literally behind and are catching up. Which felt super stressful, that the game wants you to be as much of a perfectionist just to complete the game. I mean, the global leaderboard is integrated into the game for those why want to try hard, and for the rest of us casuals, it was promised that the campaign will take us about one and a half hours, and it took me more than twice that time to not finish the game. The primary reason I bought this game was because I wanted to have a casual drive through different super scaler environments, because the screenshots and the footage looked quite snazzy. Well I was disappointed, there's like six or so different environments, and there's absolutely no progression to them from start to finish of the race, like driving through a forest? Or some ruin? Or a village? No, it's just the same set of roadside sprites throughought the whole race. The music also was absolutely nothing special, serviceable at most, and definitely unambitious, just like the game it is in. Tl;dr, an unnecessarily difficult game with nothing to warrant the time and effort investment into it.

I'm not into racing games, and so the only racing games I've truly given the time of the day have been the likes of Mario Kart, Death Rally, and Micro Machines. This game is as infuriating as all the other racers I play because I don't get the feeling that I want out of a racing game when it comes to taking the turns, but what it does have going for it is the feel that I get from criss-crossing ahead of the randomly generated AI cars that put me even more on my toes when it comes to reacting to what lies ahead of me. Honestly I might have enjoyed the game even more if that was what the game was about, reacting to cars and turns very quickly, rather than having the road telegraphed ahead of time both by signs and by the fact that 70% of the screen consists of the roads ahead of you, but, yeah FOR WHAT IT IS (i.e. not my genre of preference and not even my type of racing game), it's alright. :)

Funny old-School game. If you like simple easy to read graphics and hard reflex-based gameplay, it's for you. The only downside, in my opinion, is the procedural nature of the game that creates, sometimes, some a bit unfair situations, but this feature is also a + for the game !