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- $faf|1-Ace Driver Reviewed...
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- $ffa By
- $fff BootBlock/TerraForm
- $faf
- Weeeelll, this was actually one of the first driving games I've played
- where you have to actually sit in a seat (well, apart from Daytona USA
- !) (AND Ridge Racer, and Final Lap, and Cruisin' USA etc etc! - F.ed)
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- First of all, get in the seat (there are two of them joined together,
- thus enabling two-player-I'm-going-to-win-you-ya-twat type games) and in
- goes your 50p (per credit) and give the yellow button a hard twat and
- then your on your way.
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- You get to choose between Beginner or Expert - I couldn't tell the
- difference apart from in Expert mode, apart from your formula 1 car
- doesn't go in a straight line properly. Then select either Automatic
- (for wimps!) or Manual (this IS more like it!).
-
- It's got one of the gear "sticks" that instead of an normal car, where
- you have to try to find where the hell 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th gear is by
- ramming the gear "stick" in all bloody directions. Instead, you have to
- either push UP (up one gear) or DOWN (down one gear) which in my opinion
- is faaaarrrrrrrr better! WARNING: Don't try to start of in 5th gear,
- as it (obviously) doesn't work!
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- There only appears to be one track - although I was playing in two
- player mode all the time with me ol' m8 Danny (which incidentally, we
- spent about £25+ on the bastard!) !
-
- I myself can't actually drive (yet?) but I appear to be brilliant at
- driving games! *=-)
-
- The graphics are like Daytona USA/Ridge Racer 1&2/Sega Rally, which are
- bRiLlIaNt. Everything moves at a gonad-fondling 60fps (at a crude
- guess). The is sound is great ....
-
- A note to anyone who plays this game in two player mode :
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- If you and your m8 seem to talk alot while playing a 2-player game (as
- me and my mAtE does), I strongly suggest that you blab BEFORE you two
- start playing Ace Driver, as there are 2 speakers about 1½" behind your
- lugs and you won't be able to hear your self/m8 as the sound is very
- bloody loud!
-
- OH YES ! The best bit about Ace Driver is ..... the moving seats !
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- When you steer left your seat moves right (so the back end swings to the
- right and the front goes left) and ditto for the other way. Be careful
- when frantically steering to the left and right at high speed, as you
- start swinging about like a mental bastard and then everyone
- watching/near you will think you've injected yourself with Bleech or
- summat!
-
- $afaBEWARE: If you are going to play this game/simulation, beware when
- you start to come (albeit in 6th gear) upto a huge corner
- which has a mass-load of fence-things and there's a cliff drop
- on the other-side. As there is a very f'kin sharp corner
- cunning placed so you twat your formula 1 car into the wall.
- I suggest taking this corner at 3rd or 4th gear - depending
- on your game/driving skills. I can sometimes take it at 5th
- gear !!!!! Beat that yer girlies ß-)
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- $fafOverall, a brilliant game, that even better in two-player !!!
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- $fff Signed -
- BootBlock/TerraForm
- (Joseph Cox)
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