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Dom Robinson reviews
Midway 
- Price: £39.99
- Players: 1
With CART Fury Championship Racing,Midway have gone from recreating and updating 80s games to making one thatplays as if we’re still in that decade.
Billed as high-action, fast-paced racing, yes it plays fast, but it playslike the then-golden oldie Powerdrift, but with that facility, so it’sjust a game of racing a car round a track faster than all the others, but withnext to no substance to the actual game and certainly very little in the wayof excitement or longevity.
Run round various tracks including Houston, Long Beach – California andToronto – Canada and you’ll soon be saying ‘Houston, we have a problem’,because there’s so little variety between the tracks, especially when you onlyhave to turn left or right round the entire track for that race – and rarelyboth – that you soon get bored of doing the same old thing.
Choose a track, choose a driver, choose a difficulty level, choose automaticor manual, choose a mode of gameplay (arcade, simulation, season), go “Driving101” – ie. earning a licence but certainly not up to Gran Turismo 3standards, or play Sub Games such as “Demolition”, in which you have torun every single other car off the track to get through, or “Last Man Standing”,which is rather a misnomer because you only have to beat one specific car onthe track to win.
Or choose something original instead.
Where you do occasionally get to have some fun is by knocking others offthe track, or seeing this happen ahead of you and trying to dodge the flyingdebris, but once you’ve seen this occur a few times, that’s about it.
The sound is everything you’d expect, unfortunately, with nu-metal-stylemusic popping up now and again.
We’ve been down this path way too often before and this game won’t cut it intoday’s market so save your pennies.
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Reviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. Aortic valve operation survivor from the same year. Running DVDfever.co.uk since 2000. Nobel Peace Prize winner 2021.