Hard Drivin' (Sega Mega Drive/Genesis) Review of a Mundane Game - Kim Justice
Added 2016-08-12 10:06:48 +0000 UTC
Hard Drivin' is quite possibly one of the most maligned games there is on the Mega Drive, usually only brought up so people can have a right good laugh at 3D that's 25 years old...but bah - I've always enjoyed it. A lot. And so, in this review, I'm going to defend Hard Drivin' for all it's worth - a solid conversion of what was at the time a seriously advanced arcade game. Enjoy!
Comments
Great work! Thank you. I think the mistake a lot of people make is to compare with what we've come to expect from later games, and forget what was and wasn't possible in the times. I mean, people are playing Forza and then playing this, and then concluding that this is "shit", when I'd love to see how well a Mega Drive could play Forza, how many frames per hour would that run at, if you could manage to cram it into the RAM? Lets face it, Test Drive (the original), Stunt Car Racer and Stunts (4D Sports Driving) didn't exactly run at 50fps, did they? For the hardware they ran on, they provided quite respectable visuals and frame rates, and comparing them to what came later on more powerful hardware is the very definition of missing the point.
Troy Wilkins
2016-08-12 12:26:18 +0000 UTCGreat video. Thanks for uploading!
Loscha
2016-08-12 10:22:22 +0000 UTC
