Quad Challenge
Saddled on a high-performance all-terrain vehicle, you hear the roar of racing engines and scan the brutal dirt track ahead. The unforgiving clock counts down; THREE... strap helmet, TWO... rev it up, ONE... explode from the gate! Slam into high, and torque up to brain-warping speed! During tight cornering, cut hard, shift low, and fan the brakes. You'll feel huge racing tires claw for traction. Control four-wheel drift or you'll spin out. On straightways, you'll hit rises and go airborne. Throttle down to soften your landing. Challenge a computer-controlled rival, or compete head-to-head against your buddy. Choose from 9 twisting race tracks on practice mode. Choose from 4 vehicles, each with unique horsepower, handling, and acceleration features. Play the Circuit Championship, a 16 track password race to glory!
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This is fucking unplayably cheap
Namco released this? This is incredibly bad, sure the graphics at first seem ok but then you get into the actual gameplay and oof, the AI is tough as nails, unfairly so right from the get-go and the actual speed of driving feels so slow and sluggish. Its just a really bad time all-round and something that should have been buried.
I cant even play Multiplayer, the one potential saving grace, because i'm on an Evercade and the Namco carts don't work with the VS console because of licensing issues. Shiiit.
This was my timeline of playing the game:
- See negative reviews online
- Start playing, game looks okay for a Genesis racing game and the controls are fine
- Later find out that the game is so horribly made, that the game is almost humanly impossible
- Give up and cheat using passwords to just look at each track and consider that 'beating it'
Here's what goes wrong after the first 2 races. The AI cheats, it's rubberbanding is insane, and it goes faster than it should whether it's behind you or in front of you. The track design starts to have some turns that are physically impossible for your vehicle to comfortably make. Even if you can make them, you spin out if you turn too fast, and you need to slow down, allowing your opponent to get ahead you. Doesn't matter though, it got ahead of you at the start of the race and you'll never catch up to it. The tracks all look the exact same despite supposedly being in different parts of the U.S.. The backgrounds are different, but the track itself is the exact same dirt track style that you can't distinguish tracks.
This game is garbage, and it's impressive that Namco made something so bad, it's barely possible.