You have three different play modes: race the computer, race the circuit, and race against a friend. If you download the latest patch from Sierra, you can also customize each of these vehicles using any old paint program.
Additionally each of these vehicles comes with a different paint job to help you personalize your racer on the track. There are differences in how each of these vehicles handles however, all are close enough to each other that, in time, one can master any track with any vehicle. You have four to choose from: the Monster Truck, Stadium Truck, Baja Bug, and Buggy. The vehicles of choice are the requisite R/C plastic body on a noisy gas-powered chassis. RCR’s success lies in the simplicity and the addictive nature of the game.Įach of these races takes place on eight tracks that vary from a construction yard all the way to a back yard complete with maniacal garden gnomes armed with cherry bombs. Pick a race mode, one of the eight tracks, a vehicle type, and go. RCR is about as simple as it gets as far as getting down to business. Top this off with a price point below $20, and you have a title that almost can’t go wrong. Additionally RCR definitely owes its lineage to the fine NES game, RC Pro AM. Specifically Radio Control Racers (RCR) seems to grab the same sort of excitement I had experienced with Super Sprintin the arcades (remember that game with the steering wheel that continuously spun so you could spin broadies across the track?). Sierra’s 3-D Ultra line of games seems to be aimed squarely at this level. More and more new games seem to be going back to the tried and true mixture of fun and substance versus the oft sought after mixture of high cost and system requirements.
Until then, I will rest easy as it looks like we are seeing the same sort of resurgence in gaming. I myself can’t wait until the parachute pants, British flag muscle-T’s, and big blue combs that say "Sassy" come back into high fashion. Not only did bell-bottoms come back, but they've carried it even further - most kids’ big pants are bell-bottoms all the way up past the waistline. we’re just at the tail end of that unwanted return. You know how some trends seem to be circular in nature? Take fashion and music from the 70’s.
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