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Why ponce around in a scabby old car and nothing else, when you can have the choice of six totally different vehicles, such as dune buggies, motorcross bikes and juggernauts? Driving Force gives you just that choice, as well as five different types of terrain. Select either a male or female character, then plonk your cheels into one of the twelve competitions on offer and do you best to come first out of the field of nine international contestants.

Driving Force could have really been something special, but unfortunately its few niggles ruined the game for me. The sprites aren't bad, and the road itself is amazing - more like the Power Drift coin-op version than the Power Drift computer game, in fact!

The half-dozen music tracks are pretty good too, but the whole thing falls down when you find that, when you bump into a roadside-object, instead of falling over the bike simply bounces away from the object, continuing on as if nothing had happened!

The game runs at fifty frames per seconds (which the packaging goes to great pains to let us know) but in all honesty I thought that the game was *too* fast to be enjoyable.

An okay driving game - it has some novel twists but suffers from very poor and unrealistic car control and excessive game speed.