Videogame Review, Suzuki Alstare Extreme Racing for the Sega Dreamcast Console

Videogame Review, Suzuki Alstare Extreme Racing for the Sega Dreamcast Console

It’s a broken prototype.  Nothing in this game says “arcade” on it.  There’s going to be lots of crashes of which you’ll have no fault in and the motorcycle racing game kicks you out for running out of time when… guess what?… you’re in 1st place!  After trying to get everything in this racing game I pretty much gave up, put the disk back in the unimaginative packaging, and reconsidered my motives.  The beauty you see on the courses may be very nice but we also have to actually get a fair chance to go over the road’s twists and turns.  Look at the packaging; it doesn’t say anywhere that it’s an arcade game.  Perhaps gamers and reviewers who had approved of this game rushed through it just as quickly as the programmers for it did.  And the guy who beats everything- what does HE know about a challenge?  He’s never stopped for anything; he’s never questioned anything; he’s never come across barriers and impossible obstacles.  Some guy like that has no excuse for even considering a bad game.  Me?  I’m just an ordinary nerd: not too smart, not too dumb.  So from what I’ve experienced in witnessing my motorcycle rider rising from the grave after fatally collapsing near a town hall’s peak there has to be something that impresses someone, other than me solely.  IGN probably should’ve stopped when they were claiming that this “arcade” game had “subtleties”.  Why?  There’s no such thing as a subtle arcade game!  Even if this was labeled as an arcade game (but it never was) there’s soft music, soft graphics, and soft dimensions that can never be considered as part of the arcade’s high intensity, dramatic thuds, or point-crunching excitement.  Motorcycles in this game- in how they race- are floppy if not utterly elastic.  Cruis’n USA from the arcades back in the 2000’s days had nothing, and I mean NOTHING, to do with this pretentious game.  Riders in Suzuki Alstare Extreme Racing become ridiculous to the point that their stupidity is apparent not only in their unnecessary simplicity if we’re to excuse the outrageously unrealistic crashes but also in such a program’s dull presentation of a videogame that implies more conflict than what it has the guts to show.  It should be illegal for a gamer to drive in real life if he or she actually thought this was a good driving game- no ands, ifs, or buts about it.  

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