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Each time this path is completed, the last one there is cut out of the race, and the process is repeated over again until a winner is crowned.

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It has drivers going from one zone of a “course” (is that the right word for these mud-filled empty areas?) to another. Red Rover is the most interesting, but not the most wreck-heavy, so I’m sure the audience for this game will stick with the previously mentioned modes of play. Boy, if you like watching stuff smash, these modes are for you! Players simply drive a lap around a course, do a 180, and finish the course going in the opposite direction. Though not as violent as Flagpole, it might be a bit more fun for fans of classic racing. Because sharp turning is inherently difficult to master and the fact that Test Drive games handle like absolute garbage, the wreckage count runs high here. The mode involves a number of cars trying to circle a set of flagpoles at “high” speeds. The best mode is probably the Flagpole race, since it allows for the greatest number of crashes, and that’s just about all this game has going for it. There are a few different modes slithering about in the game which must have taken some effort to put together, which cuts out any usage of the insanity plea for our friends at Monster Games, Inc. You can throw on the first-person view if you want to make things look a bit more sped up (third-person views do not lend themselves to a sense of speed in any game, at least in comparison to a first-person option, if it is an available option), but that won’t help much. This is likely because it is much easier to crash into things when they are all moving with just enough speed to maybe get out of the way of your oncoming assault, but probably won’t.

But as you advance through the game, you realize that while the crappy cars are slow, the pedigree-tier of vehicles are… also kind of slow. At first, the game is agonizingly slow because of the vastly underpowered selection of cars to choose from. As with most Test Drive games, it plays like hell on wheels, and not in the threatening sense of the term. Now that the winding, deep concepts of the game have been laid out, let us look at how it controls.

There are a few variations on this formula, many of which are actually present in Test Drive, but none fall too far from the tree whence they came. The concept is simple: the drivers are kind of trying to race, but mostly they get off on smashing head-on into other vehicles. These events are called destruction derbies. Just bad.Įve of Destruction takes its concept from those sideshow events that take place at monster truck rallies before Gravedigger rolls out and runs over a school bus and everybody goes home bombed out of their minds by alcohol.

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And thus we have Test Drive: Eve of Destruction, a game that lets you ram into other cars quite a bit and listen to a licensed soundtrack with only a few more songs than you would find on the top of your extra-large fountain drink at Burger King during their Backstreet Boys free CD promotion.

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And now I sit here, staring at my computer screen, with a copy of the new Test Drive game lounging about in my Playstation 2, and I can’t help but want to scream out to the gaming gods, “why has the Test Drive series lasted so long? Why are amazing racing masterpieces now gathering dust at the bottom of forgotten bargain bins while this series releases its fifty-sixth edition? Why is there no market for a Daytona 2 home port, but a sizable one for this bumper car-level tripe?” But I won’t ask the electronic deities why things are the way they are, because I know enough about the answers.

Sometimes I hit these strides where all I can do is stare at the ceiling with a copy of Pimped-out ****in’ Carz or Silicone-Enhanced Violent Boob Patrol lying inches away from me waiting to be played, wondering who the hell buys these things.

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