Club Drive

The Good
The most positive aspect of this game is the fact that you can turn it off and play something else. If I were to really stretch it, the ideas for the tracks are imaginative, and there are a few unusual secret areas to be found within the gameplay.

The game has a two-player mode, but if anyone can be conned into playing this title, they'll start to feel like this was a way to say that you secretly hate them.

The Bad
Without a doubt, this is one of the ugliest games the Jaguar ever had. Take a look at the "animals" that populate the house level, and they're more boxes than anything, unless the children of the house thought it would be amusing to paper mache the household cat. The textures are flat, dull, lacking any kind of real detail, and are just boring to drive by. That doesn't even begin to cover the amount of pop-up, graphic distortions, glitches and other glaring flaws found in this title. Visually, this game is a mess. The fact that you can actually drive outside of the worlds at times does nothing to redeem itself.

Sound-wise, the cars sound like cars (trapped in a blender), which for this title, anything remotely accurate is a blessing. However, the music is more of a distortion of things that remotely sound like music, and it's just easier to turn it off when playing.

As for gameplay.... When you're not driving through walls and out of the world, you're struggling to make your car turn, or position yourself to hit a ramp. The Jaguar controller doesn't make things much better, but at least it can be competent with other titles. And somewhere along the way, a physics engine forgot to be programmed in. Playing the game is just painful.

The Bottom Line
I would love to know what the programmers were (or weren't) doing when this game was being made. One look at this title, and it's easy to see why the Jaguar suffered such an early demise. I remember this game being delayed forever, and the extra time that it took to release this game certainly didn't help raise the standards of excellence for it. It was an extremely delayed title that felt like it was rushed out the door. I can't recommend this game at all, other than as a morbid curiosity.