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"Describe the game: a stadium bassed off-road racing simulation. Elaborate: souped-up trucks and buggies driving around dirt tracks and over jumps and bumps for whooping Yanks' amusement. Speculate wildly how many people are interested in the sport over here: five. Try to explain why people should care: the game attempts to recreate the thrills and excitement of meaty, throbbing engines and stomach-churning stunts. But? Fails. Why? Extremely difficult handling. How? Oil on an ice rink grip and oversensitive steering.

What the hell, this isn't pavement its MUD! It should be slippery. Oversteer? Ever watch a WoO race? Apparently not. 5 people????

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Does this result from an attempt to steer away from instant access arcade action towards a simulated physics approach? Yes. Anything else? An anal level of detail in relation to tuning your vehicle. Isn't that a good thing? Not if you have to do it to come in anything higher than last place. Aren't you just being shit? No. Reason? This is on the lowest difficulty setting. Explain difficulties in relation to driver AI: they never make mistakes. What are the consequences of turning AI down to 0 per cent? The cars at the back go slightly slower but still follow a near perfect racing line

Well somebody can't drive! What do they mean, perfect AI? The AI runs each other off the road and makes mistakes?! NEED SETUP?? I beat the amature carrerr mode with only the stock setup!

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Return to a description of modes: two - quick race and career. Was career enjoyable? Not really. Why? The soul-sapping atmosphere, mechanical tinkering and lack of instant accessibility deterred me from generating the sort of immediate arousal expected from the sport.

In other words the only games u can dive are need for speed and test drive.

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? Difficult handling
? Overly tough competitors
? Void atmosphere
? Mechanical attention to detail

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Bet that can be said about N4 too but ain't givin it no 52%.