Amiga Computing - Commodore Is Awesome

SYSTEM
preview
Three players can take part,
giving you more of a view
because the horizon sometime
gets in the way
The track editor is excellent. it
allows you to chop and change
sections easily and efficiently
lel 1 Rac
uildhall Leisure have oeen pushing
releases out like nobody's business. A
few months bock Gloom received 81
per cent from yours truly because
It was one of the first
Four players can play at any one
time. And if you add another
Amiga, eight can play!
',/iewed by Andy Maddock
much better than Mdrio Kart was that four p
could race at the same time on one Amiga
connecting two machines would enable ei
players to bathe it out all at the same time
So if you've got plenty of friends
like some friendly rivalry, Extre
Racing could be just wh
you're looking for.
Although it is still a fair v,
off completion its loo
pretty Impressive.
graphics ore very c
toon like - working
with the backgroun
and track graphics -
the best thing by
about it is the tact
you can customise
.:]ornpletely.
On our preview versi
there was an editor, alio
you to edit the tracks, and it
] comprehensive applicotio
although reasonably simple to
at
-Then
followed Fears.
te although it was slower, was
mexcellent
fun. Hoton the tail
pt
of these two releases Is
s Extreme Racing. a sort of
a
first-perspective view rac-
t
ing game, which looks a
lot like the SNES version of
a
Super Mario Kart - which is
D
no bad thing!
o If I remember rightly,
opreviously
saw some
mscreenshots
of this uploaded
-to
Amine. Back then it wasn't
lsigned
to a publisher or any-
ithing.
and to be honest. It did look
kpretty
good. It was titled 'VP which
e obviously meant Extreme
gRacing
- although it was spelt This may took like a pretty badly drawn Basically, the screen was
aXtreme
Racing. Gosh, how screen. However, don't worry, it's just a into a file-like grid wher
dithered screen
m
we manipulate the English I
you could load up obje
e
anguagel
and place them on t
I was always a big fan of Super Mario Kart on screen. I'm not sure whether this will be Ind
•the
SNES and when I saw the screenshots of •XTR' on the complete package. although they
•I
could see a lot of similarities. However, instead of to have already planned some data disks
•the
excellent Mario characters. Extreme Rocing new tracks and the editor. depending on
featured different cars - a Police car, a VW games success.
Beetle. a Ferrari, and more. What made this so When I mentioned you could customise
in one-player mode Extretne Racing
is at its fastest. it really does play
like Super Mario Karl too!