RoadKill

I wasn’t expecting too much from RoadKill. I just wanted a game that I can drive around and shoot things. While that remains its main forte, there is a pretty good game wrapped around that. If you’re also looking for a game where you can drive around and shoot things, pick this up.

Roadkill has a neat sound package, too. The sound effects are decent but the soundtrack steals the show. There are lots of radio stations full of music and DJs and talk radio guests. It isn’t quite as humorous as the GTA games, but they get the job done very well.

Detailed textures and a fast frame rate let you savor the disturbing damage, and the precise controls never fail. And although RoadKill lacks a little polish in presentation (you’ll switch between driver and gunner positions without warning), the fast action and pleasing carnage make it worth checking out for the intended, over-18 audience.

Roadkill is a fun game, especially if you’re a fan of car combat. Having the freedom to drive around in a car with weapons is a lot of fun, but also a bit limited. Roadkill’s missions lack creativity and the story wasn’t too deep. I only really did missions when I grew tired of the current area and wanted to move on to something new. Doing the side missions like stunt mode, survival mode, and riot mode was a fun way to keep from doing the next story mission. Roadkill makes a great, casual screw around game, but as a story-driven experience it falls short.

If you liked Grand Theft Auto and Twisted Metal: Black, it's pretty likely that you'll enjoy Roadkill. The game is wide-open, the areas are fun to explore, and there are some truly funny moments along the way. One thing to note, though: this game earns all of its M-rating. It's a capital M. There is more gore, rough language, and general disrespect for humanity in this game than in most prisons.

If you liked Grand Theft Auto and Twisted Metal, it's pretty likely that you'll enjoy Roadkill. The game is wide-open, the areas are fun to explore, and there are some truly funny moments along the way. One thing to note, though: this game earns all of its M-rating. It's a capital M. There is more gore, rough language, and general disrespect for humanity in this game than in most prisons. If you go in with your eyes open or (God help us) even enjoy some of these things, then it can be bloody good fun. While its story and graphics lack pizzazz, Roadkill has something for everyone: action fans, racing fans, collection freaks, and serial killers can all find fulfillment here.

If you liked Grand Theft Auto and Twisted Metal: Black, it's pretty likely that you'll enjoy Roadkill. The game is wide-open, the areas are fun to explore, and there are some truly funny moments along the way. One thing to note, though: this game earns all of its M-rating. It's a capital M. There is more gore, rough language, and general disrespect for humanity in this game than in most prisons. If you go in with your eyes open or (God help us) even enjoy some of these things, then it can be bloody good fun. While its story and graphics lack pizzazz, Roadkill has something for everyone: action fans, racing fans, collection freaks, and serial killers can all find fulfillment here.

This game may not be the next Grand Theft Auto, but it's got a lot of the same style and the same spirit, content, and dialogue that would send a PTA meeting into a panic, and lots of good, simple shooting action. If you think the idea of a game about driving around in a machine-gun-toting car while completely ignoring traffic laws and blowing away anything in your path sounds like fun, then you'll get it out of RoadKill.

This game may not be the next Grand Theft Auto, but it's got a lot of the same style and the same spirit, content, and dialogue that would send a PTA meeting into a panic, and lots of good, simple shooting action. If you think the idea of a game about driving around in a machine-gun-toting car while completely ignoring traffic laws and blowing away anything in your path sounds like fun, then you'll get it out of RoadKill.

If you think a game about driving around in a machine-gun-toting car and blowing away anything in your path sounds like fun, then you'll get it out of RoadKill.

This is a game that I would suggest that most people at least rent, for some it is the next evolution in a genre they love, and for others it is nothing more then blatant ripoff other games which they have already played to death.

An online mode would have helped this problem to some degree as well as give the game lots of added value, but alas, nothing of the kind is to be found in RoadKill even though we already got a taste of it with Twisted Metal: Black Online for FREE! Granted the multiplayer capability is at least present and playable with four people of equal or an almost equivalent skill level, however, I can’t help but feel the mode was tacked-on without much polish.

The overly simplistic gameplay, re-hashed visuals, unbalanced level design, and generic storyline all factor in to make this hybrid of yesteryears best selling, finest games, a low rent middle class knock off. Nevertheless, the sheer visceral excitement of blowing stuff up and witnessing ultra-violent, unapologetically brutal cut-scenes and road rage is hard to deny. Consider Roadkill a perfect candidate worthy of the $3.99 at your local rental hut.

The overly simplistic gameplay, re-hashed visuals, unbalanced level design, and generic storyline all factor in to make this hybrid of yesteryears best selling, finest games, a low rent middle class knock off. Nevertheless, the sheer visceral excitement of blowing stuff up and witnessing ultra-violent, unapologetically brutal cut-scenes and road rage is hard to deny. Consider Roadkill a perfect candidate worthy of the $3.99 at your local rental hut.

Roadkill is limited in terms of lasting appeal, mostly because the power difference between you and the sentinel cops (X-menesk) is quite unbalanced in your favor. This is tandem with items that practically give you full health and are strung about willy-nilly across any given environment. The multiplayer mode allows you to go head-to-head with up to three other players in a Twisted Metal style deathmatch. There are a few different power ups that can be found in multiplayer battles that are absent in the main story mode, but nothing to get excited about.

When faced with this relatively new piece of technology, developers, designers, and publishers more often than not don't know quite what to do with it yet. RoadKill is evidence of this. Bawdy, tasteless, unsophisticated, bereft of any real creativity but genuinely spirited, RoadKill is the videogame equivalent of farting sounds being made into a tape recorder.

The environments are somewhat plain and are dark and gloomy. RoadKill is an attempt by Midway to profit off of Take-Two's GTA series. While it is different than GTA in many aspects, the similarities are obvious. If you like to shoot things without knowing why you are doing so, RoadKill is the perfect game for you.

If you live with your mother, smoke pot, watch wrestling, can't vote, and love The Cramps or have a big brother who does, you will likely have a blast with this game. Not only can you get your violence fix by yourself on a Wednesday night, but you and your friends can have fun wrecking each other in the 4-player split-screen. It doesn't have the finesse, complexity or scope of GTA, but few games do. Sometimes, the simple things in life are enough.

RoadKill is very dark and grainy across all three platforms (which look and play roughly identically), though this graphical grit fits the feel and doesn’t detract from the experience. Gritty game, gritty look. Makes sense. What doesn’t make sense is the lack of any sort of collision damage. Go ahead and ram into a wall. Not a scratch! Now try smashing into another car. Not a dent! Taking the arcade route is fine when it comes to control and physics, but how about some more realistic damage? RoadKill’s audio mimicry of GTA 3 wears thin, as you have a handful of radio stations to choose from and only one plays real, licensed hits. The rest are fake rap, fake metal, and noisy talk stations. The gun noises are jarring and the explosions are okay.

Roadkill is the sort of game that one might play as an alternative to the other games it is being compared to, or for fans of those games that want more of the same. If you're looking for original content, you aren't going to find much here. If you're interested in seeing what it's all about, give it a rent.

Think about all the low-budget knockoffs of successful movies that are on video store shelves. Are they ever any good? No, and video game knockoffs aren’t much better. For a perfect example, look at RoadKill, a shameless rip on the Grand Theft Auto series. Unlike GTA III, RoadKill only presents you with one mission at a time. You can choose to do other things before accepting it, but eventually you have to do each mission in order to advance the plot. Instead of focusing on the freeform play of the GTA games, RoadKill focuses on the adult content. All the spoken dialogue is loaded with swearing, prostitutes are everywhere, and the talk radio stations may contain the most sexually explicit content in any video game to date. The result is an immature and offensive clone of a far superior game.

A lot of what made GTA great was the sense of life going on in each city. RoadKill lacks that, gang warfare aside. The cities are large by car-combat standards, but not compared to Rockstar's point of reference. I hate to continually evaluate RoadKill against someone else's efforts, but the ties are so strong and obvious that it's impossible not to.