Trailblazer is retro fun for all the family.
The controls are simple and very easy to get to grips with. Play accelerates, the d-pad steers and R is used for jumps. Gameplay is divided into arcade mode, featuring “levels” built up of a number tracks, with a time limit, and time trial which allows any track unlocked in arcade mode to be run sans time limit and plus timer. It’s simple and easy to understand.
The game is pretty big, 45 tracks spread over 3 difficulty settings, including 26 tracks from the original to unlock. This game will last some time.
The sound of the game is great, lots of little whizzing and boinging noises make it sound spot on. The whiz of acceleration is great too, as are the 6 music tracks, which suit the game really well. As usual the Gizmondo is very loud out of its supplied headphones, but sounds all the better for it, as every individual noise can be picked out. also, with this game, you can listen to tracks stored on your flash disk. Good, eh?
And now, to the graphics. This game is gorgeous. Plain and simple. Many people have said that the game’s graphics are utilitarian, but I find them to be vibrant and stylized, making for fun playtime. The way it makes you loath purple, love green and get frustrated with red is incredible. Certainly, the graphics are not, say, realistic, but then, what you’re doing is eccentric and unrealistic, so the graphics fit right in.
Overall, Hein and I agree that the game can get a little difficult later on, but the thing about a game where you do the same highly un-repetitive thing at the start as the end is that If that is the case, the difficulty is not keeping you from the game’s real fun, and that is the only circumstance where a difficult game can be marked down.