Mark Muschett shares his views on Motorhead.
This arcade style racer has a lot to offer gamers including true colour graphics,
force feed back support and best of all support for all the major 3D audio API's.
In doing the review of Motorhead he tested it with six different soundcards,
the details of which are in the review.
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Motorhead
Important Info:
Developer: Digital Illusions
Publisher: Gremlin & Fox
Price : $40 Sound APIs : DS, A3D 2.0, A3D 1.x, DS3D, EAX
Other APIs: D3D, Glide
Music: CD Audio Rated :9
Award : *Surge
Of Approval*
Soundcards used for testing:
Trident's 4DWave-DX chip
Diamond's MX300
Turtle Beach's Montego II OEM
Creative's Live
Yamaha's 192 digital
Skywell's Magic Sound (Vortex1)
Minimum/Recommended
System Requirements:
Pentium 166 MHz or 100% compatible processor
16 MB Ram memory
DirectX 6.0 or higher
4x CD-ROM player
PCI SVGA Graphics card with 1MB RAM capable to show "High
Color" (65,535 color) and with drivers supporting DirectDraw 5.0
100 MB free Hard-disk space (additional disk space required
for the installation of DirectX 6.0)
Reviewer PC:
- Win98
- Celeron
333a o/c 416
- 64
MB PC100 ram
-
Creative TNT
-
Creative Voodoo 2 (12 mb)
-
6.4 Quantum SE
-
Cambridge SoundWorks FourPoint Surrounds and Boston Acoustics' Media Theater
Introduction
"You only realize your mistake after you’ve shifted up into
fifth gear and accelerated to 200 mph, your approach to the imminent corner is way to fast
and you slam down on the brakes. The crash wall’s staring you in the face the car
goes into a skid and impact is imminent. To make matters worse your pursuers are gaining,
threatening to overtake. Time seems to stand still you brace yourself for the crash but at
the last moment, you hit the barrier with your rear wing. The car jumps but you’re
back on the road and still in the race. Downshift to 2nd and hit the gas, making a note to
remember that one next time" - from the
Official Motorhead Website
Do you remember when the first Voodoo cards came onto the market and we were wowed by
the likes of Whiplash Racing and Pod? Well Motorhead is in the same vein as those early
titles. Coming from Digital Illusions, a small but talented group from Sweden who are
backed by Gremlin we get Motorhead. Motorhead is an arcade-style racer with unrealistic
physics and no way to fine tune your car beyond speed, grip and acceleration. No
simulation here! But if frantically steering a car traveling through eight graphically
luscious fictional tracks at break neck speeds with excellent audio effects whizzing all
around is your idea of fun, then this is your game.
The game is set in the near future and you are racing in the fictional TransAtlantic
Speed League on eight luscious tracks.
Goldbridge gives you the perfect opportunity to test the real power of your chosen car.
Its a short, fast track, with a couple of tight corners. The European setting provides a
nice scenic view.
Red Rock provides dusty, fast desert setting with lots of straights. The sheer speed of
this track does have the effect of making the gentle corners seem terrifyingly tight.
Neo City is a downtown location with a combination of large open motorways and tight
city streets.
Atlantika which is located on an artificial island, just off the southern coast of
France, with a fairly short track featuring fast, wide roads set against several difficult
turns and narrow passages found throughout the sunlit marina.
RuhrStadt is based within a small German harbor town and is very challenging as
it’s tight and filled with obstacles, leaving little opportunity for you to push the
car’s top speed.
Olympos, situated along the Mediterranean coastline, is a long sweeping track that runs
along the coastline, before veering back into the mountains.
Nolby Hills, set in Sundsval, Sweden, is a 2.7 mile road track with with lots of dirt
areas and grass where you quickly spin out on. It takes just a few laps to
really learn it and it quickly becomes tremendous fun.
Okkunspeedway set in Texas is basically your classic oval track with a straight
section and a couple of opposite turns.The Speedway is short (1.3 miles) and really
fast. Not technical, but great fun on-line.
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