A perfect home version of one of the last great arcade games, sacrificing nothing and adding meaningfully to the original content.
The core gameplay is hopelessly addicting for even the most casual player, but if you feel like really getting into it there's a whole world of weird button combination special techniques that feel like glitches but open up the gameplay hugely if you have the time to practice their very specific executions.
New to the home version is a bundle of brief minigame challenges that, in addition to being fun and tough, pretty effectively teach you how to play the game at an advanced level. There's also a whole new (huge) second city to drive around in, but it's not quite as much fun as the original one.
And lastly, it must be said ... the extremely early-'00s vibe of this game -- the style, the product placement, the MUSIC ... it slaps. Sorry! I don't make the rules! It unironically is awesome and good and there's no more discussion to be had about it.
A stone-cold classic and just as much of a blast to play now as it ever was.
The core gameplay is hopelessly addicting for even the most casual player, but if you feel like really getting into it there's a whole world of weird button combination special techniques that feel like glitches but open up the gameplay hugely if you have the time to practice their very specific executions.
New to the home version is a bundle of brief minigame challenges that, in addition to being fun and tough, pretty effectively teach you how to play the game at an advanced level. There's also a whole new (huge) second city to drive around in, but it's not quite as much fun as the original one.
And lastly, it must be said ... the extremely early-'00s vibe of this game -- the style, the product placement, the MUSIC ... it slaps. Sorry! I don't make the rules! It unironically is awesome and good and there's no more discussion to be had about it.
A stone-cold classic and just as much of a blast to play now as it ever was.