LET'S COMPLETE DOOMSDAY RACERS IN JUST OVER 30 MINUTES
0The abyss sure likes to stare right back when it comes to Phoenix Games, especially when they have Mere Mortals work on the game for them... and then do the thing where Mere Mortals' name only exists in the copyright and nowhere else. And to make it worse, it's another racing game.
And yes, THIS one actually IS just like Pro Biker 2 and Moto X Maniac and allll of those games. But they made it WORSE once more! How about that stuff, but you only get 1 lap on a bunch of tracks you've never played at all for the 3 competitions?
How about really terrible turns that with the turning controls of this game, are a nightmare to work with? How about some boost pads that make you go a bit faster, but also screw up your steering, making it even more uncontrollable? Now how about putting those boost pads right next to turns sometimes?
But wait! How about an AI that is almost always faster than you on the straight, no matter what car you use, and only slows down around the turns to give you a chance, meaning that almost every race ends with you and the AI being a second or half a second apart in distance? How about some races where it is LITERALLY impossible for you to get 1st in because of this?!
Oh, but that's not all! Now how about a game that is SO poorly made, the game only works on Fat PS2's, because it refuses to run on Slim PS2's? Now how about every race having IMMENSE slowdown, to where almost your entire time with this game involves the game struggling so hard, your controls responsiveness is terrible and the game moves at a crawling pace sometimes?!
And to add the cherry on top, how about a pointless Time Trial mode with no records to beat and the fact this is only 2 tracks, segmented into 4 areas, for 3 cups of TWELVE races?! And the back of the box and such says there's 9 levels, so that's already a lie. Oh, and you only get 1 new car instead of the 2 you would get in the previous games of this one's kind. Oh, and you only have ONE song the entire game!
Do i even have to say anything more after that? Do i even need to type anything more of how bad this is? There's even jumps that make the game direct you into walls, and even outright WALLS in the way! And you can get stuck on the AI sometimes, even from behind, making you have to fight your turning to get off of them. And there's the annoying lines of poles which you won't see coming and they screw you over and you can get stuck on them too...
Commentary track coming soon.
Just... why? Why, why, why? If this is what doomsday looks like, then it's clear we've avoided it by now, because this is one of their worst games yet, especially in performance. I thought Living World Racing was bad with its performance issues, but this one legitimately topped it because it wasn't THIS consistently bad throughout the WHOLE game. I went at this blind for this recording, too. And quite honestly, i don't want to do another take of this. I don't even want to touch this again.
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