4 Wheel Thunder

The Good
4 Wheel Thunder is (sadly?) the best 4x4 racer for the PAL Dreamcast with some very nice aspects to it, the most striking, being the overall graphical quality to the title, especially for a first gen DC game, 4WT has a well structured main game which for those are prepared to endure it, will last them for many a night against grueling CPU racers. The game boasts a very impressive multiplayer mode with a variety of different modes from racing a bomb. Solid 60fps is a big +!

The Bad
Sadly, originally developed as a pure 4X4 Dreamcast racer by Kalisto, Midway liked the look of it, and decided they wanted to add it to their Thunder brand which they were trying to establish, however, to do this, meant they had to add boosts, now a trade mark of the franchise, and made the AI so that you needed to get the boost to have any chance of even finishin close to the CPU racers. Utter Cack uninspiring music. The final downer is it is such a wasted oppertunity, 4x4 games have such potential for interesting and rugged wide open terrain, puttin the vehicles through their paces, with multiple routes to checkpoints huge distances away, sadly very few games acctually take advantage of this. 4 Wheel Thunder is one of them, generally, most circuits would be possible in a Renault Clio never mind a Monster Truck or SUV.

The Bottom Line
Fast, mildly entertaining 4 wheel drive arcade style racing game, with plenty to do, well worth the £5 it generally costs even brand new these days despite some serious flaws in game design.