Street Racer is a kart racing game similar to Super Mario Kart. Up to four players can play by split-screen. If there are no human opponents, the player can drive against seven computer opponents in three leagues. If the player wins the first league, they can play the second and so on. The game has eight different vehicles with different skills in speed, haste or resistance. There are also some power-ups on the tracks such as bombs, nitro fuel, and health packs.
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Really is a testament to the Mega Drive's persistence in PAL territories that a Mode 7 racer would get ported to it as a super-scaler game with all of its features intact - and damn, what a suite. Grand prixs, time attacks, replays, multitap, combat mechanics, even some goddamn Soccer.
The problem is that Street Racer sucks ass besides that, the party racer mechanics make no sense in the context of a scaler racer and the gamefeel is slimy. Everything is overly-smoothed, there's weird tweening to turning that makes you feel like you have constant ice physics. And just trying to catch up to CPU opponents feels impossible, your speed just can't overtake them and you'll sit 6 feet behind them for a whole lap like a babysitter.
I owe the SNES version a try someday so I can see if this weird Mario Kart/Sonic Drift/Road Rash mashup has redeeming value elsewhere. Maybe. Maybe not. Some of these character designs look pretty bigoted. I'm worried.
The problem is that Street Racer sucks ass besides that, the party racer mechanics make no sense in the context of a scaler racer and the gamefeel is slimy. Everything is overly-smoothed, there's weird tweening to turning that makes you feel like you have constant ice physics. And just trying to catch up to CPU opponents feels impossible, your speed just can't overtake them and you'll sit 6 feet behind them for a whole lap like a babysitter.
I owe the SNES version a try someday so I can see if this weird Mario Kart/Sonic Drift/Road Rash mashup has redeeming value elsewhere. Maybe. Maybe not. Some of these character designs look pretty bigoted. I'm worried.
The poor man's Mario Kart. I picked it up since it had a 4-player mode, but clearly this wasn't as good as Nintendo's classic.
Fun game, better enjoyed if played with a friend. Good graphics, fun characters and a funny mode with karts playing soccer 🤣. The controls take a little bit to get used too and the game can be quite challenging. Nice game overall.
I have not played this game since I was very young and don't actually remember about it but for some reason I get a gross feeling when I see its logo. Like I just watched someone pop a big honking zit full of putrid pus.
Having played both the incredibly good SNES version and the absolutely horrible Mega Drive one, it's annoying to say the least that there's no distinction made between both versions of the game here.
To be absolutely clear, they share a title and have the same group of characters, but are not the same game at all. The overall look, the tracks and everything else are different.
It also introduced cars playing football fully twenty years before Rocket League.
To be absolutely clear, they share a title and have the same group of characters, but are not the same game at all. The overall look, the tracks and everything else are different.
It also introduced cars playing football fully twenty years before Rocket League.