With CART Fury Championship Racing,
Midway have gone from recreating and updating 80s games to making one that
plays as if we're still in that decade.
Billed as high-action, fast-paced racing, yes it plays fast, but it plays
like the then-golden oldie Powerdrift, but with that facility, so it's
just a game of racing a car round a track faster than all the others, but with
next to no substance to the actual game and certainly very little in the way
of excitement or longevity.
Run round various tracks including Houston, Long Beach - California and
Toronto - Canada and you'll soon be saying 'Houston, we have a problem',
because there's so little variety between the tracks, especially when you only
have to turn left or right round the entire track for that race - and rarely
both - that you soon get bored of doing the same old thing.
Choose a track, choose a driver, choose a difficulty level, choose automatic
or manual, choose a mode of gameplay (arcade, simulation, season), go "Driving
101" - ie. earning a licence but certainly not up to
Gran Turismo 3
standards, or play Sub Games such as "Demolition", in which you have to
run 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 on
the track to win.
Or choose something original instead.
Where you do occasionally get to have some fun is by knocking others off
the track, or seeing this happen ahead of you and trying to dodge the flying
debris, 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-style
music popping up now and again.
We've been down this path way too often before and this game won't cut it in
today's market so save your pennies.
GRAPHICS SOUND EFFECTS AND MUSIC PLAYABILITY ORIGINALITY ENJOYMENT
As of April 2009, Blu-rays and DVDs reviewed by the editor are watched on a Panasonic TH-37PX80B
37" Plasma TV with a Sony BDP-1500 Blu-ray player and played through a Yamaha DSP-AX820 amplifier.
PC games reviewed by the editor are on:
Since Jan 2011: Intel Quad Core Dell XPS 8100, i7 CPU 860 @ 2.80Ghz, 8Gb RAM, nVidia GeForce GTS 240, Windows 7
Since Nov 2005: Intel Pentium D 830 3.0Ghz, 1Gb RAM, 128Mb nVidia GeForce 6700XL, Windows XP
Since Aug 2003: Intel Pentium 4 2.66Ghz, 512Mb RAM, 128Mb GeForce4 MX440 graphics, Windows XP
Since May 2003: Intel Pentium 4 2.6Ghz, 512Mb RAM, 128Mb ATI Radeon 9600TX graphics, Windows XP
Since Jun 2002: Intel Pentium III 600Mhz, 384Mb RAM, Windows 98 SE, 64Mb ATI Radeon 8500LE
Since May 2000: Intel Pentium III 600Mhz, 384Mb RAM, Windows 98 SE, Voodoo 3 3000 AGP
Choose a track, choose a driver, choose a difficulty level, choose automatic
or manual, choose a mode of gameplay (arcade, simulation, season), go "Driving
101" - ie. earning a licence but certainly not up to
Where you do occasionally get to have some fun is by knocking others off
the track, or seeing this happen ahead of you and trying to dodge the flying
debris, but once you've seen this occur a few times, that's about it.
