Editorial Sixteen: Pod Racin' on muh Fun Machine

Been spending some quality time with that new Episode One Pod Racing game on the mighty N64. Wrote a review about it. Like to hear it here it go:

The Good:

  • Graphics straight off the top shelf
  • Diggin' on the play control
  • Heaping gob o' tracks (and some brutally long ones to boot)
  • Win cash, upgrade pod racer

The Bad:

  • No race-able Sebulba until the end
  • Why does ice effect my hovering pod?
  • A couple one-shot type weapons would have been keen
  • Not much in the way of a multiplayer game (very average)

The Ugly:

  • Not enough of the incredible soundtrack
  • Merciless AI as you advance through the later levels
  • No Lando

At the end of the day I leave this game with the sense that racing on the N64 doesn't get much better. Having fellow racers cursing at you in some alien tongue is one of a dozen small details you don't want to miss (hearing Watto hum the cantina theme is another). In the racing category I'd rank this baby up there with the likes of F Zero X and Diddy Kong.

Managed to screen-grab the cut-scene where LSilky And Sebulba taunt each other at the start-line. Someday I'll have to post the secret El Dorado code so you kids can race in style...

Don't make me go all Wu-Tang shaolin on yo sorry ride, Sebulbus!

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