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Written by  :  murcalumis (714)
Written on  :  Dec 16, 2000
Platform  :  Windows
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Summary

It sucks

The Good

You can listen to the techno music on a stereo, since its CD audio. Nice graphics.

The Bad

Everything. The controls are bad. The AI is bad. Everything is bad!

-You can only drive on the tracks. But in the previous game, you could drive anywhere, including off-road.

-Theres no damage.

-The other cars are very hard to beat sometimes, and they are like they have a pre-written plan, instead of reacting to whats happening NOW.

-Your car is more like a hovercraft than a car, and does not feel at all like you're driving a car.

-When you are doing well, the other cars ram into you as if you don't exist and its harder to win then, as if it wasn't already hard to win.

-It makes you really mad when you get all the way to the finish line and a car rams you from behind since it does not know you exist and you lose the race.

The Bottom Line

It sucks, plain and simple. The previous game, Test Drive III is much better, althrough it runs way too fast and does not run properly even if slowed down on a fast PC. Maybe download the demo, to see how bad a racing game can be, or just to see the look at the graphics. Otherwise, don't go near it! The Need for Speed games are much better, but I have already mastered NFS3.



Merchant Title Platform Price  
Amazon
TEST DRIVE 4 Windows $0.01  
ebay.com
Test Drive 4    
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