1st January 1992
Hard Drivin'
Hard luck if you buy this load of tripe. It must rank as one of the worst coin-op conversions of all time. Even the 20% it got in Issue 68 seems more than a bit generous! It was so bad it was never released at full price for the C64, instead appearing on two compilations (Wheels Of Fire and TNT).
Remember the Hard Drivin' coin-op with fast solid 3D and probably the most realistic driving action ever? Well, this is nothing like it! Not only are the graphics a pain on the eye with their disgusting blue and yellow colour scheme, they're unbelievably slow moving - as Robin put it, "It's almost like Freescape!"
The basic game content is here with other vehicles to dodge, gear changes, the 'fast' (snigger) Speed track and the Stunt track with its loop-the-loop. But it suffers, as Robin noted, from "Oversensitive steering, dodgy collision detection - the other cars have no sides! - and the general sluggishness making it unplayably tedious... You'd have more fun pushing a Fiat Panda up a steep hill!"
That about says it all!
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