While the games available for PSP fans aren’t coming out at the pace they ought to, there is another problem regarding game quality. Although some games are incredibly popular on the PSP, some of them have to struggle to up their own rankings.
Off Road, as the name suggest, should have lead you to believe that you would be sitting behind monster truck-like SUVs and 4×4s while raging through tough-to-maneuver tracks, but the game will disappoint you even before you switch gears — the tracks are rather neatly done and the only difficulty you might actually have to face while cruising along is wondering where the difficulty is.
Pocketgamer.co.uk neatly sums up the disappointment in the following manner:
“Several key factors ensure the races are incredibly dull. First, there are the tracks. Rather than ferociously pot-holed and pitted surfaces capable of snapping axles, you get tame freeways of different textured mush. You can guess that the green stuff is grass, beige bits are mud and the blue strips water mainly because that’s what you’d expect to be there, rather than by the way it affects the handling significantly.”
And finally,
“The reason it’s hard to be positive about Off Road is that even when it works and there are no gripes as such, it’s still a horribly average experience, almost as though there’s been a concerted effort to produce mediocrity. Yes, at £19.99 it’s a budget game but that shouldn’t be an excuse to create something that’s only memorable when it irritates, especially when there’s numerous quality driving games out there that can be picked up for less these days.”
Off Road is seriously off track and it is a wonder if anyone will actually pick it up. The racers seem to be more interested in bring up your fender to meet theirs or to damage your car more than anything else; the last thing they would like to do is to race.
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