rampaging, mad, crashtastic action-packed FUN!
The career mode is split up into tickets. The tickets are levelled 1-4. The higher the harder. Each ticket has between 1 and 4 races. Normally 2 or 3 laps. And each event is on one of eleven tracks in the game. The tracks are fantastic. There are several different ideas they're based on. You have deep in the mud fighting for position on tight tracks. Then you have the open tracks with tonnes of different routes through the rocks, then there are the high tracks on top of mesas with (usually) a good set of jumps and a high chance of crashing. My personal favourites, are Rockhopper: up high with tonnes of jumps and cool leaning bends thousands of feet above the desert floor. secondly is dust devil. 2 main routes, generally fairly wide. But it is the jump king. It doesn't have as many as rockhopper but they are enormous jumps. This course is best on an ATV. Thirdly is Rain God Mesa: half of which is hopping along the rocks on the side of the mesa. And there is an elevated corner, the lower you go the faster you go, but if you go too low your going to fall a very long way.
Once you've chosen a ticket and found out what track its on, your then going to see what you are going to be driving. A few events are your choice but on most you have to use a specific vehicle type. The types are: Bikes, ATVs, Buggys, Rally Cars, Racing Trucks, Mudpluggers and Big Rigs. The route you take on each track depends mainly on what your driving. Bikes and ATVs should take the high route, Buggys and Rally cars should try to stay somewhere not really high or really low, and the racing trucks, Mudpluggers and big rigs should stay in the deep thick mud. Each car type has 5 different cars, You unlock them as you go through but you start with 2 of each. There are no stats to tell you how good it is at what, so you just have to go with the 1 that looks best.
Now you've sorted out the race and the car your ready to race. Most grids have about 12 cars, some more, some less. Once you get going I can almost guarentee that before you can count to 10. Somebody (perhaps you) will have had a crash. And the crashes are one of the most fantastic visuals ever. Theres usually a massive fireball and your car tends to fly upwards. A key to winning tends to be the boost. it gives you that vital extra boost of speed in those key moments. But hold it too long and your going to explode from excess engine heat, so you have to learn to use when its most important. But that explosion can be used to your advantage. Explode 50m from the line or so and your going to go even faster and hopefully pip your opponents to the line. And it looks and feels great to explode over the line.
There is one major floor in this game that drops it down the list abit. There's no multiplayer or indeed any sort of arcade mode. its just online or career. And as yet i don't have online play so thats a big let down, but besides that its a truly epic game.!!!