Suzuki Alstare Extreme Racing

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Join Team Suzuki Alstare for the fastest race of your life! Race wicked-fast bikes in the great outdoors. Customize the official Team bikes Suzuki Alstare SuperBike GSX-R750 and Suzuki Alstare SportBike GSX-R600. Fast-paced motorcycle racing at 60 Frames Per Second. Cutting Edge 3D graphics. Race on 12 Diverse tracks and then try them in Reverse Mode. 4 game modes including 2 player split-screen.Amazon.com This motorcycle racing game, set in pristine outdoor environments, will leave players with a serious need for speed. While the game sports some of the most beautiful environments and intricate riders ever seen in a video game, there is no hint of the "extreme" that the title suggests. The collisions are relatively tame, enabling your bike to glide up fences and other objects instead of crashing or rebounding off of them. Suzuki Alstare Extreme Racing features easy driving controls that enable novice riders to take steady curves at high speeds, but players will still need to use the brakes around those hairpins. Turbo boosts are rewarded for reaching checkpoints. For all of the extreme ambitions of this game, it is still seems to be missing a vital component. The racing environments are designed in a way that fails to convey the speed and realism of an actual race. Rather than rushing by the player, the scenery moves as though it is being dragged toward you. While the speedometer and engine-revving top out at fever pitch, the onscreen visual motion just doesn't match up. Beautiful to behold, but only recommended for nongamer, motorcycle racing fans. --Jeff YoungPros: Great graphics New features unlock as you advance through the game Solid controls Cons:Racing environments fail to convey speed Product description Join Team Suzuki Alstare for the fastest race of your life! Race wicked-fast bikes in the great outdoors. Customize the official Team bikes Suzuki Alstare SuperBike GSX-R750 and Suzuki Alstare SportBike GSX-R600. Fast-paced motorcycle racing at 60 Frames Per Second. Cutting Edge 3D graphics. Race on 12 Diverse tracks and then try them in Reverse Mode. 4 game modes including 2 player split-screen. Review [Editor's note: Ubi Soft reports that the US version of Redline Racer will receive an improved soundtrack, better graphics, tighter AI, and two additional tracks, and the Suzuki license. It'll run under the name Suzuki Alstare Extreme Racing.] If you tried to imagine all the companies that would publish a motorcycle racing game on the Dreamcast, you would be forgiven for not thinking of Imagineer. Taking Criterion's PC racer, titled Redline Racer, and porting it to the Dreamcast, Imagineer has beaten the likes of Sega to the punch with a racer eerily reminiscent of EA's MotoRacer. Sadly, Redline Racer does little to distinguish itself from any other racing game out there. Reason one: The game is bland. It's similar to Sega Rally in that you slowly access additional tracks by beating sets of races, three at a time, with the goal of being at the top of the ranks, pointwise, by the end of the third race. The tracks themselves vary from mountainous valleys (remarkably similar to Manx TT's opening track), to cavernous desert settings and snow-covered courses. However, the problems don't stop with mere blandness. Reason two for Redline Racer's mediocrity: poor control. While the game doesn't feel nearly as twitchy as most motorcycle racing games, despite the analog control, the control is almost too unresponsive to be of any use on some tracks. While the analog action might feel great on some of the wide-open tracks, it feels completely inappropriate for the more serpentine courses - unless, of course, you're willing to crawl around the tracks with the brakes on half the time. If you don't subscribe to these methods, I wish you good luck navigating the track and then the curb. your motorcycle (and driver) drive up the side of a mountain before spilling far off in the distance (Road Rash style). Considering the difficulty controlling your bike in the hairpins, it is unreasonable that the tracks cause you to fly off your cycle so often. There is also a nitro button to give you a Moto Racer-style speed boost, but you won't find many places to apply this feature, as the straight-aways are few and far between. Hit the nitro in a curvy spot, and that pretty much guarantees you'll smear yourself a

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