

There is little story line at all, other than a commentator (a pretty good one) only talks when you enter a new session, but doesn't talk at all otherwise. I spent many hours on one campaign and never getting first. The levels get extremely difficult and ultimately discourage players from wanting to finish it. The Campaigns are fun, but get repetitive. You can have both players on one keyboard, both use xbox controllers, or one with controller and one with keyboard.Īfter playing the game for a bit, you start to figure out all the places that you can trigger stuff, and may lesson the excitement. Games like Blur do not offer this, and if you do not have a solid online community, playing by yourself can be dull. I have a buddy come over and we play against each other on the same computer screen.

Another great thing is that you get SPLIT SCREEN!! this is great. Other game modes like survival (running by giant trucks that dump explosive barrels at you) give you other maps, but still look very similar to the maps in regular racing. There are 11 tracks, but almost half of them look the same with a bit of a twist. It also shortens the track to give advantage to whoever triggers it.

Track changes basically look like this: A ship will tip over and crash into the runway pwning all cars in the way, and provide a new part of the map with new obstacles to control. The tracks are great fun, and most of them has one or more have epic track changes. The fantasy cars look fairly real, though design can be repetitive. Power plays are gained by drifting, drafting, and dodging the malicious environment. You try to time your "power plays" so that a truck may explode and skid across the track into your opponents car in front of you, or have a falling building destroy a bunch of cars and create a new route with lots of high jumps, or even having a plane crash into a runway that is part of the race track. Being able to interact with the environment, create explosions to destroy your opponents, and ultimately change the racing course is great.
