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| N-Gen Racing,
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Richard Young,
20 January 1999 |
Rating: F4
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In case you were wondering, N-Gen Racing isn’t the latest Star Trek game, with Captain Picard racing around some kind of futuristic speedway hot on the tail of Dr. Crusher, oh no. It is in fact, an almost entirely new kind of racer that utilises not cars, bikes or even hovering skateboards. N-Gen’s vehicle of choice is the jet plane, and a rather jolly good game it is too. Zooming through canyons, over forests and across lakes makes for an exciting race format, particularly when you take into consideration that the closer to the ground you get, the faster your plane will go. This makes for many a hair – raising moment, although you can clip the odd tree without necessarily bursting into flames.
Like many other racers, noticeably Wipeout (which shares many other similarities), there is the standard inclusion of checkpoint markers along the route, just in case you’re tempted to fly off to somewhere a lot less stressful. Miss two or more of these markers, and its game over, flyboy. Again , as with Wipeout, and many of the Mario Kart stylee games, power ups and weapons are liberally scattered along the course giving you (and your opponents) the chance to turn other planes into a big smokey cloud of debris, in contrast to all the pretty white ones. Another neat feature which N-Gen Racing shares with some of the better breeds of racer is the potential to earn credits in order to upgrade your plane, and buy even faster machines, which are essential to have a hope in heck of making any progress in the later levels.
The graphics are pretty stunning, too. Sharing similar kaleidoscopic lighting effects to those of Rollcage, it all moves along at a fair pace. There is a possibility of ocular overload, however, when things get really busy on the screen, but once you recognise the signs you shouldn’t have a problem. It may not be as cool as Wipeout, or be as ground breaking as Gran Turismo, but Infogrames’ N-Gen Racing is original, fun and, dare I say itÂ….a little addictive.
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