Commodore Format


Ivon Stewart's Super Off-Road Racer

Publisher: Tronix
Machine: Commodore 64/128

 
Published in Commodore Format #20

Ivon Stewart's Super Off-Road Racer (Tronix)

Ever wanted to drive a beefy, macho four-wheel-drive truck? No, neither have I, but in this game you can. Basically you've got to whizz your tiny truck around several incredibly bouncy and violent circuits.

Three other trucks belt along too, and the whole thing is like throwing four Tonka toys down a cliff and watching them through the wrong end of a pair of binoculars.

It's dead tough to control your truck, and it's very, very annoying when you can't actually get it through a smallish gap, and you just keep bouncing off the walls, as well as other contestants.

The two-player mode helps it a bit, but doesn't make a particularly storming game. It would be better to spend the money on 199 tuppenny chews!

Frame Rate

A bit like Badlands or Indy Heat, but not as good as either. It's fairly similar to filling your double-glazing with water and then using each window as a kind of thin aquarium!