SkyDrift - Review PC HD
8-- Review --
A great mix between Hydro Thunder, Mario Kart and Crimson Skies! The good folks at Digital Reality have created the answer to that with their latest arcade air racer, SkyDrift..
SkyDrift takes all of the best mechanics of those games and throws them into an aerial-based combat racing game. The term aerial is used loosely as you cannot just fly wherever you want to. The game has arrows that point you in the correct direction of the track, if you try to fly past these you'll be forcefully pushed back onto the track. The same 'auto-correcting' will occur if you try to fly too high, you'll simply be pushed back down. This certainly doesn't handicap the game's ability to simulate flying in an aircraft, since the tracks are based on locations such as canyons, mountains, oceans, glacier infested waters, and lagoons.
The main mode of SkyDrift is the game's campaign, which in turn is made up of seven groups of races. Within this mode are three different race types. First of which is 'Power Race', the standard where power ups are available to pick up on the track. There is nothing different to expect in the game's pickups as SkyDrift features the genre's bread and butter, with equipment such as homing missiles, machineguns, shields, health repairs and mines. Players can carry up to two weapons at a time, but a neat thing is that you can buff up your item by collecting the same one again before you use it, making it great for tearing down opposition.
It's a shame that the game only has six tracks to race on as you start to feel the repetition after a while. There are reverse versions of them, but that's something of a cheap way to extend a game's track list.Controls are simple as the game uses the triggers to speed up or slow down. You can use the right stick to rotate your plane in a knife edge manner to allow you to turn corners sharper. The course actually lets you know when you need to do it by flashing red arrows at you.
SkyDrift is 1200 Microsoft Points (£10), and because of that you can somewhat forgive the shortcomings, since the title is full of quality instead of quantity. It's worth the admission fee as it is a blast to play, and a bit of a surprise hit that sprang out of nowhere..
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