Score: 3
"I want to like this game"
date: August 12, 2008
but I simply can't. As others have mentioned, the handling on the cars is horrible. I got decent enough at it to finish three challenges, but the handling is so unrealistic and touchy that its near impossible to get good times on the tracks.
Too many times I would finally finish that second lap, and it wouldn't count the lap, so I would lose the challenge. I don't know if it's due to me going off the track too much or if its a generalized glitch, but it's a huge deal breaker when you finally fight the horrible physics enough to "win" but don't get the lap counted.
The drifting mechanics are so over the top that it's near impossible to back up after making a mistake because the car always "drifts" the opposite direction from where the car should turn when going in reverse.
If you fix the physics, you could have a very fun top-down racer. As it is, it's just unplayable. The game is more of a "can you defeat my horribly hard physics" game than a fun and challenging racing game.