Comments on: Review: Ford Racing Off Road

By: VGBlogger.com - » 2008 Off-Road Racer Comparison Guide: MotorStorm: Pacific Rift vs. Pure vs. Baja: Edge of Control

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 22:52:21 +0000

[…] there are some other off-roaders floating around out there as well, like that crummy Ford game Mike reviewed and some other Baja game by Activision, but neither of those are in the same league as these three […]

By: VGBlogger.com - » VGBlogger Holiday Review Guide

VGBlogger.com - » VGBlogger Holiday Review Guide — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:29:25 +0000

[…] Ford Racing Off Road: “Ford Racing Off Road attempts to lure gamers who like off-road racing, budget games, and are partial to Ford’s vehicles. It is unfortunate that they do little to exploit any of those potential markets, and instead produce a sub-par racing game that is easily dismissed as yet another piece of licensed ’shovelware’ to be avoided.” Read the full review for more. […]

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:18:58 +0000

Hehe … it all depends on how you define ‘budget’, doesn’t it. For me, I take the ‘consumer’ side: stuff like Trackmania or the original Serious Sam games are ‘budget’ games with a ‘AAA mindset’. This game reminds me of something built for the dollar store!

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:06:38 +0000

The Trackmania games have definitely pulled it off (very interested to see how the DS version turns out), and I’ve got a review going up later today for Wipeout HD which is a $20 racer of quality far exceeding its price tag. I’m not sure I’d call either a budget racer though. Even though they are cheap, you can tell they were developed with more care than real budget games.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:38:19 +0000

I agree – but there have been some decent ones that pick a single element and forego the others, things like the Trackmania games – that have worked well despite being a budget game. You change expectations, but they can still manage to be pretty decent.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:46:04 +0000

Budget racing games are really hard to pull off. The most important elements to a racing game — physics, damage modeling, sense of speed, etc. — can’t be developed that realistically on a budget. Just the way it is.