Despite their complete fantasy basis, the speedsters in Racer feel immediately comfortable. The joystick's response is crisp, and the sway of the ships on turns reflects believable physics. Each racer handles differently, but all of them can be upgraded and adjusted to your personal taste--a huge plus when you're searching for your ultimate ride.
As in any racing game, different vehicles may yield different results on the same course. However, each ship's pleasant response is balanced by a questionable control layout. In a remarkably dim omission, you can't reconfigure the buttons, which leaves you stuck with the default setup.
That wouldn't necessarily be a problem if the boost control weren't on the same stick used for steering. While you veer left and right around obstacles, you're also expected to press up on the stick to charge your boosters. It's just as awkward as it sounds--the Z trigger, which is unused, would have been more comfortable.
With buttons to spare on the N64 controller, why not use them? All alien drivers mumble in their own languages throughout each race. The ships' engines sound cool, too, whining and roaring during turbo blasts. Unfortunately, the track announcers sound a little goofy, and gamers are only treated to John Williams' majestic score on the third and final lap.
Maybe that's to heighten the dramatic tension of a big finish, or maybe it's limited due to cartridge space. Either way, when you hear it, it's properly heroic; you'll wish it was there for the whole race.
Star Wars Episode I: Racer packs enough high-octane thrills that most gamers will be able to look beyond the nitpicks about control configuration and pop-up. For sheer N64 racing excitement, it's the game to beat. Despite some pop-up problems, Racer looks fantastic; the Expansion Pak enables smooth textures, great lighting effects, and a high frame rate.
Without the extra RAM? Racer would earn a higher sound score if there were more of it The engine whines and vehicle collisions don't disappoint but John Williams' score only kicks in on the final lap and the characters' alien chatter gets repetitive.
The boost system is needlessly complex, and the buttons cannot be reconfigured--a major slide into the Dark Side. However, the ships respond with remarkable smoothness, which helps salvage the score. The Force is strong with this one--fans of futuristic racers like Wipeout suddenly have a killer alternative. Racer has the speedy frame rate, the creative courses, and the sense of tension that racing fans crave. Extreme-G 2 was fast, Wipeout 64 was faster, but Episode I Racer leaves 'em both choking on its dusty contrail.
This is the fastest racing game I've ever played. Only F-Zero X comes close, although Racer's graphics are far more detailed. With the RAM Pak in place, the hi-res visuals are astounding, despite some minor frame-rate stutters. Racer packs a rich variety of textures. The pods themselves bristle with detailed animated parts. You get 25 tracks in four circuits, and even though later courses build off earlier ones, they still offer a wide variety of scenery, everything from space worms to sandy beaches to the Tatooine track ripped from the flick.
Courses are enormous, too. Some take up to three minutes to lap--and that's with you cruising at mach one! Most tracks are rich in shortcuts and alternate routes, kinda like a supersonic Beetle Adventure Racing. The game requires plenty of control Finesse; you must master powersliding for later courses, which can get a little too fast and stomach-churning for easily frustrated gamers.
The need to buy pit droids and new and junked parts adds some welcome strategy, too. Don't expect to beat Championship Mode with Anakin alone a bit of a bummer if you want him to be the hero. You need to experiment with all 23 podracers to find tie best one for each track. It's as impressive as it is dizzying. At times it feels out of control, especially in two-player mode. There's a frustration factor, but for the most part it handles well enough to get away with it.
Creative tracks and upgradable pods serve the game well. Star Wars as well as racing fans should buy this game. Having seen the Ep. I trailer, I have to admit didn't really think the N64 could handle this game. Let's just say Racer put the smack down on me.
The game moves immensely fast; so fast, at times I couldn't believe I was actually controlling my pod through all the twists and turns. The tracks are beautifully textured, but a lot of it will fly by too quickly for you to appreciate. My only issue with Racer is that the frame-rate suffers a bit in hi-res mode. Even though Racer is based on what is easily the most-anticipated movie of all time, you don't have to be a Star Wars fan to enjoy it Racer is one of the fastest-paced games I've ever seen on any system, immersing you completely in the Star Wars universe.
You'll actually be afraid to close your eyes while playing. The only thing missing from this game is a Story Mode, but the graphics and gameplay more than make up for it.
The force has been strong with PC gamers. But soon console owners will be able to pay more personal visits to that galaxy far, far away-now that LucasArts is working on several Star Wars games for the Nintendo 64 and PlayStation systems. Nintendo 64's graphics are so sharp that you can see for miles outside your speeder's canopy.
Other levels are more Doom -like, with you wandering around Imperial bases and other Star Wars-inspired locales. The game's graphics are expected to look like they're straight out of a Star Wars film, with all the grandiose scenery and technical details they need to look true to the trilogy. This movie feel will only be enhanced by the many Star Wars veterans who make guest appearances in Shadows of the Empire.
Jabba the Hutt, Boba Fett. Darth Vader and even the Emperor himself appear in the game. Despite its big-time cast and complex story, Shadows of the Empire is only one part of a multimedia explosion that Lucasfilm has set off to promote the recently released Shadows of the Empire novel, which sits at the center of a nuiltimillion-dollar marketing blitz. Other related merchandise includes comic books, action figures and even a soundtrack. Slated for a summer release, Rebel Assault 2 is a Star Wars full-motion-video tour-de-force that plunks the player behind the controls of several familiar spaceships, including the B-Wing,.
This last ship lies at the center of Rebel Assaults 2's story, which revolves around an escalating arms race between the Empire and the Rebel Alliance. Between flying sequences, players also engage in first- and third-person blaster battles. As in the first Rebel Assault, all of the sequel's sequences rely on full-motion video to draw the player into the Star Wars universe. Since Lucasfilm used original props and costumes from the trilogy, the scenes look especially authentic.
Often described as "Doom on the Death Star," Dark Forces is a mixture of action and mystery that's set right before and after the events depicted in Star Wars. The game opens with Katarn starting his newest rebel mission: to seek out and steal the plans for the Empire's planet-busting Death Star.
Yes, these are the same plans that Argo carried around in his rusty innards in Star Wars. After you sneak through an Imperial base, kill a bunch of Stormtroopers and retrieve the plans, Dark Forces' stoiy jumps to the period just after Luke nukes the Death Star.
Now there's a new threat to the still-shaky Alliance, a menace that has wiped out an entire Rebel outpost and left few clues. Rebel spies have heard the name of the Empire's secret new weapons--the Dark Troopers--but the Alliance wants more information.
And you, as Katarn, spend the game's remaining 13 levels unraveling this mystery, eventually facing the Dark Troopers and their creator in combat. Just as in the other Star Wars games, players will see many familiar faces--and helmets--during their Dark Forces adventure.
Darth Vader and Rebel Alliance leader Mon Mothma star in the game's mostly rendered cinemas, which play before each level and add to Dark Forces' story. You'll also confront the trilogy's most famous bounty hunter, Boba Fett, stroll through Jabba the Hntt's palace, play seek and destroy in a Star Destroyer and visit other far-flung facilities.
Katarn can also collect numerous weapons-froin blasters to thermal detonators-that you'll recognize from the trilogy, and each depress of his weapon's trigger is rewarded with a straight-from-the-movie sound effect. It echoes a simpler time when we could get ourselves lost in our own imaginations. With the recent release of Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace , kids today are lucky enough to have enough technology to get lost in the world of Star Wars Under the main character he is equipped with a special accelerator that can be activated at any time.
If you leave the accelerator in active mode for a long time, then the vehicle may overheat and be damaged. In this case, you can do the repair in real time, but at the same time it will significantly lose in speed.. STAR WARS Episode 1 Racer contains 3 modes: Tournament - a championship in which it is important to rise in the standings as high as possible; Free race allows you to play for fun by choosing all open tracks and characters; Race against the clock requires you to set a time record on various tracks.
For participating in the competition, the player receives money, which can be used to buy new modules for the car, helper droids, vehicles or tracks.
You'll likely find that a few. MDS files are created in the process as well--you can simply delete these. Step 5: Drag-and-drop the ISO files of the games to their respective patchers. A command-line window will appear and request administrator access. Grant it so that the patcher can create and erase temporary files for the patching process. Patching takes less than a minute for each game. I got the bug with the camera staying in front of me but with TAB it's ok.
Sebulba 7 points. Soap -4 points. Ike 2 points. Maik 2 points. I turn it into. ThatUnproGamer 7 points Mac version. I really want to play this game, but it doesn't work on OS X. A fix would be very appreciated. Daevrojn 0 point Mac version. I downloaded this and even got Sheepshaver to work perfectly with OS9, but the file for Racer is just not able to run. I keep coming up against errors and warnings and nothing will run. I downloaded stuffit and Disc Copy and it still won't go.
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