/dev/games 20 Apr 2007 11:51 pm
Outrun 2006 Coast2Coast Is The Best Game For the Xbox
It’s a game where you drive across the entire world at 60 frames per second. The skies are as blue as SEGA’s past and the music is filled with simple but catchy melodies. There are balloons! There are branching paths! The most beautiful music you will ever here is on the map screen that shows up when time runs out or you lose a race; you cannot stay on the map screen, it makes you leave before the song ends.
It’s a driving game, which is different from a racing game in that there are no other cars that matter. There is no AI to care about. If you lose, it is because you didn’t get far enough from point A to points E-J before time ran out. You will see the sky and the sea and the mountains and the desert and the forests and the cities.
The Xbox controller, even the Type S, feels heavy now, after 2 years of using the 360 controller. This game will never appear on the backwards compatibility list because Outrun is extremely unpopular in the USA. Even with the seemingly fan-driven BC update we got this week, it would be a pretty tall order to get Microsoft to bring Outrun 2 to the slimmer, whiter Xbox of Tomorrow.
The lighting and the scenery bring you through a beautiful version of the real world that will make you want to travel and see these things for yourself, because you know they can’t possibly be this perfect, but maybe you’ll find a place where the mountains grow high and they blot out the Sun.
