![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Hitting traffic, careless pedestrians or getting clobbered by an opponent often results in you leaving your bike at breakneck speed, flying through the air like superman (minus the steady landing) and skidding across the road like a hockey puck. While exciting and satisfying when going well, big flaws in gameplay arise when you come a cropper. Besides, the sound effects for the fisticuffs, screams, sirens and tire screeches make up for it. The music that accompanies the racing is fun, energetic and synthesized - far better than the awful thrash metal gibberish that would appear in later games - and the lack of any engine noise, while initially disturbing, is a relief after the tinnitus inducing noises that came with the 32-bit era. That being said, after my brain adjusted to the dated visuals and slippery controls, I started to enjoy it and found myself hooked. The roads seem to have a life of their own as they curve and swoop from side to side and your bike handles as though the back tyres are made of butter, sliding around the screen in an oddly animated way. The memories I have of them as fast paced racers are somewhat dampened due to sluggish scrolling and a low frame rate that removes much of the sense of speed. The original Mega Drive trilogy of Rash games cannot be denied their classic status and are still lots of fun to this day, but they have not aged as well as one might hope. The roads themselves now feature brief divided road sections. The updated version once again features all-California locales: The City, The Peninsula, Pacific Coast Highway, Sierra Nevada, and Napa Valley. It features a number of changes such as the ability to choose characters (with various starting cashpiles and bikes, some even have starting weapons) before playing, fleshed-out reputation and gossip systems and even full-motion video sequences to advance a plot. The Game Boy version is one of just two officially licensed games that is incompatible with the Game Boy Color and newer consoles in the line.Īn updated version of the first game was made for a CD-based platforms such as Sega CD, 3DO, PlayStation, Sega Saturn and Microsoft Windows. A port of the game wound up on the Amiga, and various scaled-down versions were made for Master System, Sega Game Gear and Game Boy. While the game has a two-player mode, it is a take-turns system that only allows one person to play at a time. The game takes place in California, on progressively longer two-lane roads. Road Rash debuted on the Sega Genesis in 1991. ![]()
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