THQ deliver another underwhelming product to the SNES library
With titles such as Home Alone, Wayne's World, TazMania and Ren & Stimpy, THQ at the time were known as the stamp of low quality on the Super Nintendo box art, with good reason I should add, the titles mentioned above were terrible to say the least and Road Riot 4WD was another one to add to the dreaded list.
Around two months after release, I had acquired Road Riot 4WD from a friend who was looking to borrow one of my games, I had replayed my games library so much it was a miracle the cartridges did not melt. Feeling sorry for my friend who's parents could not get this great kid a new game every month and when he did receive one it was the quality of RR 4WD, I felt in my heart to just go with flow and swap StarFox for Road Riot 4WD for a couple of weeks.
The game itself sets up the template of 15 tracks while driving dune buggy vehicles with the use of gun fire added in with tracks varying from muddy roads to slippery conditions. In an attempt to give the player a sense of purpose you are given hazard pay, what exactly for I really could not give a damn about due to the awful, laggy control scheme, medicore visuals and god awful sound effects.
For a standard racing game you would expect to have a flowing feeling amongst the vehicles, not in this game, the vehicles stutter and move at a slow pace which in the end results in no enjoyment at all for a person who enjoys the racing game genre. Games like this always beg the question do the developers have a proper Q&A system in place because if they did I'm sure the feedback would mostly be negative.
To expect people to pay full price for a game of this standard is daylight robbery (sadly my friends parents did) and an insult. These days we have emulators to play the SNES library on PC or the Virtua Console section on Wii, do yourself a favour and stay away from this, free or otherwise, like I said to my friend when I returned it to him "I'd rather inhale a gorillas fart than play this game again" or to be more polite, avoid please, avoid!