I do think the same, there is little to no variation in each screen, it could be better if the colors are not too much the samey.
I guess it's 2000's style futuristic aesthetic, which usually following some holywood imagination of future at the time, which kind of much steel.
i kinda missing the style, but it will need more than just lane and far building to build the world.
to be fair, wipe out at the time were also bland, but at least color of the "cars" is more varied. and looks like real sport at the time, than just darker tone of akira bike.
but well, to each to their own.
I remember playing one of these on N64, I really liked that if you went fast enough you could break the sound barrier and there was a really cool effect that went with it.
For people back in 97, N64 games were so slow to be released. XG was better then Acclaim's usual output. Turok and XG were great titles that year. XG doesn't get the love it should, fun title. I think it looks pretty good.
Wipeout 2097 / XL has so much more style than this. If we had ChatGPT in the 90s and told it to make a game that copied Wipeout and FZero … Extreme G is the game it would spit out.