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Rumble racing circus minimus2/28/2024 ![]() Where the audio department shines brighter than the sun are the power-up sound effects. If one were to play-through the game several times like I did, his quips will eventually become white noise along with the music, so it serves its purpose well. The faceless voice chided, “What’s running your car, a hamster on a wheel?” and as a car passed me, it followed up, “Is his hamster more motivated than yours?!” While not directly connected to each other, a hilarious moment occurred when I was in 3rd place. Sound options are fairly surprising – the game’s overall musical fare is a cross between country-rock and hillbilly-rock, but it’s intentionally subdued allowing for the announcer and sound effects to take center stage.The announcer acts as a sort of co-pilot rather than master of ceremonies – constantly commenting on the player’s situation as well as cracking jokes about the competition. The only true visual hiccups are a weird gradient choice in one of the stage skies and a peculiar, literally cut out cloud in another. I don’t know what the PS3’s upscaler is doing, but the game looks so much better on original hardware. Having played the game on a CRT through S-Video, and recorded the footage on a Component Equipped PS3, use original hardware if you can. It’s these little throw-away moments that help frame all the love and work that went into the overall experience. If slammed into or the player smashes into a wall, chicken feathers come flying out of the truck and flutter to the ground. The city highway stages have interactive elements like construction cones and storage containers to plow-through, billboards showing off other EA titles, and other goodies.įolks who decide to go for the unlockable cars will find one of the funniest touches in the chicken truck. To wit: in the mountain range areas, players can enjoy various trees, rock formations, tunnels, a giant corkscrew sequence that uses fantastic shadow elements, and more. Each track has their own incredible little attention to detail and I’m still finding them as I play. Tracks are three to a course, and then there are several courses to complete. Players will be taken from the bayous of Mardi Gras to the shipping docks of the big cities. The game boasts a beautiful amount of variety in the courses and tracks. If used, you get the NASCAR Experience consumer line. So detailed in fact that you can read the still working phone number 1-800-BE-PETTY on the back of Richard’s Petty’s car. The cars are large and beautifully detailed, so much so that you can read the actual sponsorships on them. ![]() NASCAR Rumble is a fantastic example of what the PlayStation can handle in the right hands. Let’s cover the obvious first – the graphics. It is the least likely candidate to land on a Top 25 games-of-all-time-list, but we’ll get to that later in the review. NASCAR Rumble’s existence is equal parts Mario Kart, Burnout Revenge, and Speedrunning all melted together with the NASCAR license and driver names sprinkled on. There comes a time when a game surprises you – not so much in it’s quality, but because of how it reveals everything that has been lost to time and the almighty profit margin.
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