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At long last! A game that has become a legend, along with the likes of Star Trek and Birds Of Prey, over the last couple of years, simply because it's taken so bloody long to come out.

The original idea was to release the product to cash in on the wave of euphoria from the original Out Run conversion - which should give you an idea of how long we've been waiting for it. We ended up getting the official sequel, Turbo OutRun first, which wasn't much cop, and now we've got this, which isn't either.

The basic idea is that the player has to take charge of a variety of vehicles - car, bike and boat - as he races over various land-and-sea stages to deliver a vital package, while international agents are out to stop you. It's all a bit ludicrous really, and what's seemingly supposed to be a cross between Out Run and Chase HQ with extra knobs on is in fact a bit of a shoddy mess.

The road sections aren't much fun to play because control of the vehicles is so bloody over-sensitive, and the enemy cars just keep on getting in the way in a way that isn't conducive to gameplay at all, but is just very frustrating. The boat bits don't even bear thinking about because they're so unjust and difficult, and 99% of players will probably put their foot through the monitor screen within five minutes of loading it up.

Talking of loading, the constant disk accessing is a pain in the prostrate, and it all hardly seems worth it when it's not even very clear what's actually going on in the game. There are far better race games available, so don't waste your precious time pondering over this one.