I'm always hesitant to pick up strange budget titles with awful box-art, but I couldn't resist Powerdrome. As I'm sure many of you know, this is an update of a classic Amiga futuristic racer (although I've never played the original). The head of this update was apparently also the producer of the original.
I've only played a couple of races so far but it seems pretty cool. The graphics are nice and the 16x9 support is appreciated. There appears to be a healthy number of tracks (24 it seems) and a variety of cliched racers. The game is quite speedy even on the first two tracks. These two are all that are unlocked at the beginning of the game. It is possible to play on xbox live as well, but I haven't had a chance yet. Apparently there is a lot of lag when more than 3 people are racing together, though.
Aside from the dreadful box art, this seems decent so far. I really like that there are no weapons in the game (ala F-Zero) as I prefer actually racing to blowing stuff up in these futuristic racers. If anyone else took a chance on this goofy sum'bitch, I'd love to hear your impressions of it.
I've only played a couple of races so far but it seems pretty cool. The graphics are nice and the 16x9 support is appreciated. There appears to be a healthy number of tracks (24 it seems) and a variety of cliched racers. The game is quite speedy even on the first two tracks. These two are all that are unlocked at the beginning of the game. It is possible to play on xbox live as well, but I haven't had a chance yet. Apparently there is a lot of lag when more than 3 people are racing together, though.
Aside from the dreadful box art, this seems decent so far. I really like that there are no weapons in the game (ala F-Zero) as I prefer actually racing to blowing stuff up in these futuristic racers. If anyone else took a chance on this goofy sum'bitch, I'd love to hear your impressions of it.