Drift City is a game that offers some and takes some too. Read on if you want to now if this is for you.
But even so the game is a free roaming racing game.A single map out of 5 of it is still quite a big map epically when compared to the 700mb primary download.The size is almost differently reduced by the lack of a variety in textures.
At first glance Drift City is a game that obviously does not offer outstanding graphics; its cell shaded but it makes it cartoonish by adding an anme style to it and goes allthe way to Cartoon in the process.Thankfully they game added a gloss car body paint.
The game is free to play but it does charge extras in "Gcoins" (ijji version you must trade real money for Gcoins). These extras include Fancier spoilers, rims and even Custom made vinyls; these vinyls are simply bitmaps of pics you choose. Sadly these priced extras are not permanent unlike the extras that you buy and pay for using the game currency called mito making the free upgrades somewhat more desirable even if they don't look as cool but sometimes they are more useful
You start the game with a simple tutorial that explains the games controls ; the games driving system is extremely simple and in no way it can be classified as realistic, epically with the excruciating drift system this involves: Holding the Shift + left or right arrow key and the car locks into a pretty fake but fun drift.
In addition to the fake but enjoyable drive the game does not forget its main point ; it's an MMO and allows players to join each other in parties to kill HUVs ( unmanned cars) killing HUVs does not involve shooting as weapons are prohibited so the game looks to you to destroy the offenders as the cops try to stop you in Need for Speed: ramming and smashing.This may not seem very enjoyable but in a party with around 5 other players a strategy may come into hand as all of the party members and the HUVs are visible in the Map, think for your self about the possibilities.
There are 2 racing modes in the game single and team.
Single is every man for himself style racing.
In team mode the players are separated into red and blue teams and the the position you get in the race dictates how many points your team gets which decides the winning team. The winning team of course gets showered with XP and Mito
The games sound track is not exactly "revolutionary" perhaps only the French accent in "revolutionary" but on the other hand it is soothing when you are cruising around a mountain road with smooth music jazzing away.Certainly a few miles away from the DMC rock.
The game also has Driver Dome, this is a place where you will encounter a lot of players and have the opportunity to trade and auction in the games auction house.The dome also has a car dealership, parts shop and a "race building" where multilayer races are hosted in their corresponding rooms.
The game also features a coupon system.You get coupons for doing a few things a number of times. E.G 100 Drifts. Not too bad.The good thing is some of the coupons which are tedious to achieve sell for quite a lot in the auction house.( I plan to flood the auction house with cheap parts, permanently lowering the prices, hahahaha).
Most amazingly the game also hosts an Under ground Challenge, which is a Giant HUV with super powers like a colossal cement mixer which runs down the roads with around a 100 or so players behind it trying to ram it down, you could be one of those hundred players.
Finally the game runs at quite good frame rate even on particularly rubbish computers or laptops so its not much of an issue to get and play the game.
If it does not agree with you play project torque.
The developers Do need to fix out a few hicks but it is overall a nice ride.