OutRun Online Arcade Review

By Oli Welsh Published 15 April, 2009

Drift more!

Version tested: Xbox 360

OutRun never ends. This is, of course, a lie. It does end, inevitably so: somewhere either side of the five-minute mark, as you finish the fifth stage of its multiple-choice, point-to-point odyssey of speed in a howling handbrake turn under blue skies, bright banners and confetti, as the crowd cheers and the girl in the passenger seat squeals in delight.

But in your imagination and in the game's timeless iconography, OutRun is endless. It's a one-way street, a winding ribbon of sun-scorched tarmac that surges ever forward, never back, disappearing into the vanishing point. It's a constant cascade of choice, of multiplying possibilities, every beautiful adventure ending in two more as the generous freeways open and split. It's the drift that lasts forever, your gleaming red Ferrari poised in a never-ending spiral of virtuous oversteer, as elegant as an ice-skater, as impossible to stop or deviate from its course as a freight train. It's one of the most optimistic and joyful videogames ever conceived.

It's appropriate, then, that SEGA seems determined to keep OutRun alive forever. This Xbox Live Arcade and PSN downloadable is the latest in a long series of arcade and home versions of OutRun 2 that spans the last six years. Fair enough: the second-generation OutRun is an evergreen classic, and a rare example of a perfectly faithful and successful update to a canonical eighties arcade game. It deserves to have its time in the sun stretched out indefinitely, not least because it might end up being the last truly great game Yu Suzuki ever made.

'OutRun Online Arcade' Screenshot 1

360 Spider: the footballer's choice.

To be precise, OutRun Online Arcade is a conversion of the OutRun 2 SP arcade machine, with its all-new American-themed courses (which were presented alongside the original OutRun 2 set in OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast) and slipstreaming technique. Like the previous home versions, the SEGA AM2 game has been ably and meticulously converted by Sheffield's Sumo Digital. Unlike them, it features no cunning challenge or mission modes, no delicious breadcrumb-trails of unlockable ephemera - from new car models to original chiptune music to improbable guest tracks from Daytona and Scud Race - to extend its lifespan and perceived value.

That's a slightly disorientating disappointment, but only at first. True to its price (800 Microsoft Points or 10 euros), its source material, its platforms and its title, OutRun Online Arcade is an arcade game through and through. It doesn't need structural longevity, fan service or feature creep. It needs leaderboards, multiplayer, a sophisticated scoring mechanic, and every second of gameplay to be tuned to perfection. It has all these things.

'OutRun Online Arcade' Screenshot 2

Enzo: the trader's choice.

True to the arcade ethos, everything is unlocked right from the start. You have a selection of ten licensed Ferraris, leaning slightly towards retro nostalgia: the F50, Enzo, 360 Spider, F40, Testarossa, 288 GTO, 512 BB, Dino 246 GTS, 365 GTS/4 Daytona, and the obscene curves of the 250 GTO. They're no longer grouped into novice, intermediate and professional classes, and the performance difference between them does seem to have been evened out, though it was always quite subtle to begin with. That said, the quickest Time Attack times are still being set in F50s for the most part, the pliable and pretty Dino and Daytona still make excellent Heart Attack cars, and the Testarossa's unforgettable flattened-wedge profile and aircraft-carrier of an engine cover still provoke weak-kneed, pixellated nostalgia in men who should really know better. "Tuned" variations (faster, twitchier) are available in Time Attack and multiplayer.

OutRun mode is a straight race to the end - well, one of them - against checkpoint time limits. This is where you'll revel in the gloriously naïve theme-park spectacle and sweeping bends of the fifteen courses. They're the uninhibited, gaudy fantasy of a starstruck tourist with more indulgence than taste, and all the better for it. The blithely bland names (Sunny Beach, Big Forest, Floral Village) disguise a mad fantasy of driving from Miami beach to Easter Island via Manhattan, Las Vegas, the Grand Canyon, the Niagara Falls and a space shuttle launch pad. If you don't want to choose, you can appreciate them all in a single, 15-minute blast.

The courses aren't so much a matter of negotiating their turns, none of which need to be taken at less then 250kph, as of threading your car through them and the fluctuating patterns of hell-bent traffic whilst losing as little speed as possible. Tipping your car into a drift is easy and predictable, but guiding it between cars and buses in gentle parabolas with fine adjustments of opposite lock, or timing its pendulous see-saw through S-bends, takes skill and a little bit of soul. It is a unique handling model, and an exquisite one still.

Eventually, you'll come to consider the lack of an unlock trail in OutRun Online Arcade a freedom or sorts. With nothing but leaderboards and the game's stiff Achievements or Trophies to worry about, you sink yourself deeper into its scoring system: hunting down quick, clean, close and stylish passes of rival Ferraris for big points payoffs, keeping a slipstream chain going through heavy traffic, living for the roar of the ridiculous dragon whose flypast celebrates the end of a well-driven stage.

The other single-player modes are Heart Attack and Time Attack. In the former, your girlfriend sets a series of variously surreal car-control challenges (don't crash, keep drifting, stay in marked sections of track, hit certain objects) and ranks your performance in them; a fine and funny companion piece that shifts the emphasis gently from raw speed onto finesse. Time Attack strips the traffic away for a ghost-car chase to the end, and although some will be obsessed with it, it's rather dry in truth. OutRun's tracks and handling never really lent themselves to this kind of rote learning.

'OutRun Online Arcade' Screenshot 3

Dino: the lover's choice.

With separate leaderboards for each of the five goals in each of the three modes (plus the 15-track continuous course), hunting down good results on all of them could easily become as great a long-term goal as Coast 2 Coast or Xbox OutRun 2 ever proposed. We only wish the implementation and integration of the online leaderboards was better; the focus on the local scoreboard after your race is one way in which OutRun Online Arcade really didn't need to be faithful to the arcade game, and going to hunt down your performance in the separate leaderboard section is a chore. Geometry Wars 2 is still the only game to recognise that the friends list is the local scoreboard of the 21st century; it's a shame its lessons haven't been learned here.

Another slight missed opportunity is the strictly casual multiplayer mode, offering only unranked matches for six players. It's a terrific cruise between friends - especially if you sacrifice fairness and turn on catch-up, with the option to turn collision off too for synchronised drifting displays. But it's never going to be a compelling network competition to rival that going on in the scoreboards.

'OutRun Online Arcade' Screenshot 4

512 BB: the right choice.

In truth, then, Sumo has fallen just a couple of minor steps short of optimising OutRun perfectly for its new network home. The online arcade of XBLA and PSN is a subtly different beast to the bricks-and-mortar-and-neon variety, and in leaderboards and multiplayer OutRun Online Arcade betrays signs of the closed-circuit thinking of the past.

But the truly remarkable thing? These are the only ways in which this essentially five-year-old game shows its age. Sure, the textures are grainy and the models are chunky if you look away from the dazzling, spinning Ferrrari centrepiece, if you stop and study them in the harsh light of 720p. But this is OutRun. Who's stopping?

In motion, it's a painfully beautiful game: in the saturated richness of its colours and the raw exuberance of its backdrops; in the soaring melody of Magical Sound Shower and the husky elocution of the girl who voices the menus; in the hard, brilliant, arcade brashness of it all; above all, in the unique balance and beauty of its handling. Hooray that OutRun lives on: may it never end.

8 / 10

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Comments (101) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • phoopipe #1 3 years ago

    Tempting.

  • bad09 #2 3 years ago

    800 points well done SEGA, you should be rewarded for not joining in on the hike to 1200. Besides...I like Outrun.

    Consider your game bought by bad09 SEGA.....

    ....Now. I've done something for you so you can do something for me.

    SHENMUE 3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Edited by 1 at 15/04/09 @ 07:18

  • themagicaltaz #3 3 years ago

    Does this version have the space shuttle launch missing from OR 2006 ?

  • TravisTouchdown #4 3 years ago

    With this and Valkyria DLC due tomorrow ... my love for SEGA hasn't been this strong since 1999. What a day.

  • Pepeman #5 3 years ago

    Lol at written reviews...just like everyone else, i skip to the SCORE


    AS GOOD AS HALO? yes. indeed



    Make love to me you monkeys.

  • neonxaos #6 3 years ago

    I say bring on DLC and sequels. Give us a friends list scoreboard as Oli says, and how about live score updates? "You friend just beat your score on this track" - what a great incentive to try harder! Sort of like how Trackmania's networked multiplayer works, with everyone in the hot seat so to speak.

  • seasidebaz #7 3 years ago

    So, multiplayer is awful. Shame, it means I won't be getting this then.

  • Dizzy #8 3 years ago

    Indeed... any game that does not have friends list scoreboards like GW2 is really behind the (online) curve. A pity.

  • woodnotes #9 3 years ago

    So good.

    Now here's hoping that this SEGA love for XBLA/PSN goes beyond this and Virtual On.

    So many classic SEGA games that could do with an update. Even Crazy Taxi would be a natural fit for XBLA, especially with leaderboards.

  • Doctor_What #10 3 years ago

    I don't give a crap about beating my friends. I play the game to have fun playing the game, not trying to constantly one-up the people I've vaguely met online.

    Very tempted with this.

  • bad09 #11 3 years ago

    "I don't give a crap about beating my friends. I play the game to have fun playing the game, not trying to constantly one-up the people I've vaguely met online. "

    Damn straight!

  • seasidebaz #12 3 years ago

    But if you're playing the game to have fun, Outrun 2006 is the better option. And it's cheaper.

  • BeerBread #13 3 years ago

    So does this game run better on 360 than PS3? Or is it exactly the same? or does the PSN version actually beat it?

  • spiny #14 3 years ago

    @BeerBread More to the point, is there one pixel difference between the two to start another flame war thread ;)

  • Ceatlan #15 3 years ago

    I'm not a kid or looking to enlarge my e'peen, but I think friend lists score charts are fun because the only people I list as friends in XBox live are people who are also real friends in real life. So being able to brag about beating a mates best score to their face the next time I see them is a good laugh. Especially since a lot of them are also work colleagues so it creates a lot of sparky banter in the office.

  • Toothball #16 3 years ago

    Buying this right now via the Marketplace site. Today is going to be an especially long day at work...

  • beastmaster #17 3 years ago

    Yeah. It's finally arrived. Bring it on!

  • cawley1 #18 3 years ago

    Well, I bought the original on Xbox, and C2C on PSP, Xbox and PS2 (for my NTSC BC PS3), but I will still buy this!

    Shame about the lack of modes (and 80's music!), but the widescreen 720p and not having to hunt for the PS2 disc means it is a cert...

  • Gouki #19 3 years ago

    fantastic!! :-D

    consider it purchased

  • peterfll #20 3 years ago

    Is it up on Marketplace yet?

  • Eisenstein #21 3 years ago

    Is it up on Marketplace yet?

    It is (XBLA that is).

  • Trinod #22 3 years ago

    Yes shenmue 3...

    ...has there ever been a game that needed to be made as badly as that one, i think not.

    The hours i lost playing Lucky Strike!

  • BBIAJ #23 3 years ago

    Yup, it's been up since just gone 8am, under Browse, not New Arrivals.

    Oh, and FIRST! to complete 15 Continous Courses in the World!

  • udat #24 3 years ago

    That's like, the only "First" comment of any kind I have ever seen that wasn't full of fail.

  • bdaggers #25 3 years ago

    Review of the year in my book, really elloquent and evocative - I shall buy Outrun on the emotion expressed by Oli - top stuff !

  • jonsaan #26 3 years ago

    I bet you weren't BBIA. The reviewers have had it for a while now.

  • BBIAJ #27 3 years ago

    Maybe so, but they're not ranked on the leaderboards, so technically I still was!

  • swede #28 3 years ago

    As well as Shenmue 3... please Sega do a Live Arcade version of Shenmue (1)! It will be a big download, but worth it!

  • videogangs #29 3 years ago

    I remember having the first one on the Amiga when I was really young, my god that thing used to crash a lot (the software, not the car!)

    Might pick this up after payday, will have to see what else is about.

  • Darren #30 3 years ago

    Well my sixth (!!!) Xbox 360 died on me three days ago and has been returned to Microsoft for repair so I won't be buying this game for that platform. I'm tempted to buy it for my PS3 though if for no other reason than I've yet to play an OutRun game on a PlayStation console... oh and for the fact that my 25 month old PS3 is still working! I'm still looking forward to the day when I have an Xbox 360 that lasts 18 months nevermind two years!!! ;)

  • Monkey_Puncher #31 3 years ago

    Jet Set Radio now pleaze!

  • Agent_Llama #32 3 years ago

    Awesome game BUT... why no ranked online matches? I've just won my first two races back-to-back but there's nothing to record victories etc etc. Boo.

  • woodnotes #33 3 years ago

    This game DOES have friends leaderboards. Why is everyone saying it doesn't? Go to leaderboards, choose mode, press Y twice.

  • Agent_Llama #34 3 years ago

    Aye it does indeed have friend leaderboards. But no ranked matches. Not sure why they left it out. Tut tut.

  • Dodgymat #35 3 years ago

    I think the comments on the friends leaderboard are a bit harsh. Especially as you can press Y to toggle the view from global, my position and FRIENDS.

  • stepneg #36 3 years ago

    For those of us with both which is best PS3 or 360 or is it so close to call it's down to price?

  • Fodder #37 3 years ago

    "a perfectly faithful and successful update to a canonical 8-bit arcade game"

    Wasn't Outrun 16 bit? It ran on the System 16 board, which had a 68000 CPU.

  • Sonic_D #38 3 years ago

    800 points? Sold, well done Sega for pricing properly.

  • Oli Verified Reviews Editor, Eurogamer.net #39 3 years ago

    You're quite right, Fodder. My mistake. Apologies.

  • Oli Verified Reviews Editor, Eurogamer.net #40 3 years ago

    Also, I've only tested the 360 version, so can't compare it to PS3. I can't imagine it's not perfect on both, however. My advice would be to by on the format you have the most friends on or, if that's not an issue, with the pad you like best for racing games.
    Edited by 1 at 15/04/09 @ 11:42

  • asphaltcowboy #41 3 years ago

    Speaking of which - anyone tried the 360 wheel with it yet?

    Also, great review Oli!

  • IncredibleKoosh #42 3 years ago

    Just d/l'd this.

    Only played it for 5mins - not played the previous versions.

    It's rather wonderful isn't it.

    For an XBLA title the presentation and graphics are brilliant. Priced right as wel, if it'd been 1200 it may have been a different matter.

    One disappointing thing though - No local multiplayer...

    Please let Crazy Taxi be in the works though.

  • frycrayola #43 3 years ago

    No local multiplayer? Real big shame that. Although five minute blasts could easily involve some pad-tossing (and profile-juggling), a split-screen mode would have made this a must buy. I'm looking for games I can sit and play with my non-football-loving flatmate, so the fewer titles that offer local multiplayer, the harder it gets.

  • swede #44 3 years ago

    Crazy Taxi +1

    Dreamcast ports of popular classics -- something Sega should seriously consider.

  • Syrette #45 3 years ago

    Tricky achievements then?

    Just out of interest.

  • canIdoyabombsforya #46 3 years ago

    "Dreamcast ports of popular classics -- something Sega should seriously consider"

    Save a few for the Dreamcast 2 ;)

    /feels odd playing the last of the arcade greats on Microsoft Hardware

  • HermitArcader #47 3 years ago

    Post deleted at 09:17:39 22-12-2011

  • Syrette #48 3 years ago

    @ VerticalStand

    If they did that we'd almost certainly be looking at a higher price point for it. For people who don't currently own a version of OutRun I think 800MSP/PS3 equivalent is good value for money.

  • YoshiMcTaggis #49 3 years ago

    ~£6 is a steal for an arcade perfect port of a game you'd pay £1 a go for usually. Minus the steering wheel, obv.

    Also: CRAZY TAXI YES PLS. God yes.

  • muscleblade #50 3 years ago

    @foreverafternothing

    "Tricky achievements then?"

    Not at all by the looks of them. Also according to Teamxbox their all attainable for most gamers.

  • ryohazuki1983 #51 3 years ago

    Got this at about 8am before work! Had a quick blast, decent game, played one match online, although the bloke turned collision off, and it was only me against him, can't wait to play it properly tonight!

  • Toothball #52 3 years ago

    It had a little slowdown on the Xbox, but not all that often. I'd be happy paying twice the price for this.

  • ryohazuki1983 #53 3 years ago

    Slowdown?

    I played for about 30mins and didn't notice any........

  • Ryze #54 3 years ago

    /salutes

    See you all tonight.

  • peterfll #55 3 years ago

    It looks lovely, but so did the original. I'm still a fence-sitter seeing I have the backward comp original still.

    And yes, I noticed a little slow-down too.

  • insincere_dave #56 3 years ago

    I'm sure that the mega-geek-completionists will be glad to know the Space Shuttle launch is included in this version when you complete Goal D.

    As for achievements they're not particularly easy apart from 5 points reaching goal with Manual Gears, 10 for Automatic gears and 10 for reaching all goals A-E. The others look like they need a bit of skill to be unlocked.

    Personally I dislike the "collision on" multiplayer (despite winning my first game) and will most likely play it with collision off from now on to prevent the annoying constant ramming that goes on.

  • seasidebaz #57 3 years ago

    Errr, all those achievements look rather easy to be honest... Especially with the F50 unlocked from the start...

  • insincere_dave #58 3 years ago

    @seasidebaz

    I'm sure we'll see them unlocked very quickly on your GamerTag profile then...

    http://li ve.xbox.com/en-GB/profile/profi...
    Edited by 1 at 15/04/09 @ 13:59

  • cherryuk #59 3 years ago

    Well I'm going for this just because I've loved the PS2 C2C and no-body plays that online now :( , plus the graphics will be better etc, and even the PS2 had 'forgivable slowdown' anything smoother is a bonus!

  • seasidebaz #60 3 years ago

    insincere_dave:

    No you won't. I'm not buying it. GRID's the only arcade racer I need at the moment.

  • Spectral #61 3 years ago

    I was going to grab this today but without the challenge mode I'm not bothering. I'm really annoyed they left it out.

  • insincere_dave #62 3 years ago

    @seasidebaz

    What a surprise that you won't be backing up your claim by means of an easily checkable mechanism!

  • Agent_Llama #63 3 years ago

    There's some noticeable slowdown occasionally on the 360. There is also a glitch; when someone selects a goal for the multiplayer races, at the end of the first stage it still allows you to go down either route (whereas normally only one route would be signposted/clear); you end up driving into nothing and bashing around for a bit whilst the game works out what to do. Am also annoyed at not getting my Legendary achievement; the fifth race out of five didn't actually run, the game crashed before it loaded, but when I won the next race it clearly didn't count as 'five in a row'. :(

  • Nithron #64 3 years ago

    Jet Set Radio now pleaze!

    Seconded.

    I think i'll third it as well.

  • Dodgymat #65 3 years ago

    Had no problems on 360 with the multiplayer this morning. Played 10/15 races without a single hitch.

    The host sets the final goal A, B, C, D or E, but upto the point where there are no more options except to head for that goal, the route is fully open - it depends on who gets to the checkpoint first as to which route you go down. Obviously if the goal is set to A or E there's no other choice, but B, C and D are open for whoever gets to the selection point first. Quite clever really.

  • Ryze #66 3 years ago

    /yawn

    To all of the haters - this game looks and runs many times better than the other versions do on the 360, and has the 360's online functions, plus the prospect of expansions for those who love the game.

    If there is any slowdown - I've not noticed it yet, and it's minimal.

    The game is beautiful.

    Hopefully we'll see Ranked races, Outrun 2 courses, and Spectator modes in the next update.

    Eurogamer Outrun Racers Club

  • makeamazing #67 3 years ago

    Any PS3 tophies on this game? I notice there are Xbox achievements. Not sure I want to get this game, but trophies might just persuade me.

  • RobotRocker #68 3 years ago

    NO EURO MIXES. ARRRRRRRRRRRRRGH. WHY SUMO, WHY? HD TOO GOOD FOR JACQUES NOW? NO RETRO OR TURBO OUTRUN MIXES EITHER. THIS BETTER BE RECTIFIED.

    Still buying it. Oh god I am so weak for Outrun.

  • madgerald Verified Studio Head of PR & Marketing, Colossal Games LTD #69 3 years ago

    Who wants to win a trip to the home of Italian motorsport?

    http://www.sega. co.uk/outruntherest/



  • asphaltcowboy #70 3 years ago

    gerald! there you are! we thought we'd lost you!

  • madgerald Verified Studio Head of PR & Marketing, Colossal Games LTD #71 3 years ago

    I'm still here - waiting for codes to arrive :( - as soon as I get them, they'll be on their way to you.. Apologies for the delay.

    T-shirts will be sent tomorrow when I'm back in the office.

  • migasUK #72 3 years ago

    downloading right now!

  • tinyspark #73 3 years ago

    Bah! No force feedback with the wheel in the demo :( ....does that mean its not supported in the full game?

  • quantumsheep #74 3 years ago

    Codes? T-shirts? Did I miss something? :(

  • Martin85 #75 3 years ago

    "woodnotes wrote:

    So many classic SEGA games that could do with an update. Even Crazy Taxi would be a natural fit for XBLA, especially with leaderboards."

    +1

    Crazy Taxi is absolutely fucking perfect for XBLA. I'd also like to see Outrigger, and the arcade version of Virtua Fighter 2 would be sweet. The arcade version has only been ported once to a console in relative arcade-perfect form (even then not quite perfect), and that was on the Japan-only SEGA Ages line on PS2. Would be sweet to have VF2 on there. If Mortal Kombat can be on there, and Street Fighter II can be on there twice, then surely SEGA have got to represent with a spanking arcade-perfect port of VF2 to XBLA!
    Edited by 1 at 15/04/09 @ 17:41

  • asphaltcowboy #76 3 years ago

    "Bah! No force feedback with the wheel in the demo :( ....does that mean its not supported in the full game?"

    That's a little disappointing, but not the end of the world - how does it feel to use the wheel tinyspark?

    "Codes? T-shirts? Did I miss something? :("

    There was a mini-giveaway in the Outrun Group.

  • Martin85 #77 3 years ago

    I've noticed a touch of slowdown, occasionally. Why should OutRun 2 slowdown on the 360?

  • tinyspark #78 3 years ago

    @asphaltcowboy

    Wheel responds nicely enough, just a shame about the feedback thing.....im pretty sure it was promised.

  • schoozzzmmii #79 3 years ago

    Surprised about the lack of force feedback, if it is indeed missing. It was definately promised and I'd actually thought about picking up the Microsoft wheel for this game.

  • asphaltcowboy #80 3 years ago

    Cheers tiny! Will have a play with it at home and when I get my code for the game, I'll test it out in the full version.

  • BBIAJ #81 3 years ago

    @ Crofto:

    Why don't you just naff off and stop reading Eurogamer then, as you clearly hate the site, its staff, and everyone else on it.

  • schoozzzmmii #82 3 years ago

    Yeah, there is a bit of slowdown. In fact, the game came to a complete halt for half a second or so in the middle of the milky way stage. But even so, it's Outrun and it's great.

    Had outrun 2 and coast 2 coast on Xbox until the Xbox console was ebayed for a 360. I allso have coast 2 coast on the PC which is great but doesn't have rumble. So it's cool to have a hi def verson with rumble. It's such a wonderful game I don't think i'll ever get tired of playing it. And hopefully people will support it and we might get a Daytona update!
    Edited by 1 at 15/04/09 @ 22:06

  • udat #83 3 years ago

    My console crashes when I try to launch the game, which is most annoying. Stupid game, stupid console.

    *mopes*

  • bad09 #84 3 years ago

    Had a quick race. Great game for a great price, really surprised they went with 800. Hope it sells SEGA I want you to give me more releases like this at this price please, come on save Live and PSN from the crap with ALL your arcade greats.

    Apart from what you've done to the blue one (and Condemned with that sequel), I love you SEGA, I'm gonna bust out the DC for a SEGA love in over the weekend. :)

    / hugs SEGA
    Edited by 1 at 15/04/09 @ 23:17

  • udat #85 3 years ago

    Yay, it works after re-downloading it. It's really quite delightful too.

  • busboy33 #86 3 years ago

    @Coin-op:
    "Friends lists full of kiddies they've hardly ever spoken to and never met in real life. Friends lol"

    The core of my friends list is years old. I've only met some of them in person because they're spread out over three continents. I usually play and talk to them almost every night, often for several hours each night. For years. one of our crew just lost his mother, and we all pitched in to send flowers to the wake. Y'know . . . what friends do.
    Your Friends list is what you make of it. Perhaps yours is so pathetic because you're sort of a dick? I don't have too much trouble imagining that the people that would play with you repeatedly are probably the sort of people you wouldn't want to interact with regularly.

    edit: Average age of my crew is 33.
    Edited by 1 at 15/04/09 @ 23:58

  • Solvalou #87 3 years ago

    is it me or this one isn't yet on EU psn?

  • muscleblade #88 3 years ago

    @busboy33

    +1

    There is a few on my list though i dont know but ive accepted their friends request to be polite.

  • Banksy #89 3 years ago

    It's on PSN today (the 16th). I'm refreshing the PlayStation Store twice every nanosecond in anticipation of its arrival.

  • Solvalou #90 3 years ago

    Are all the european psn stores the same? Is this truly out today over all Europe, or just in UK?

  • brooza #91 3 years ago

    Bought

    2147 on ending A!

  • Solvalou #92 3 years ago

    EU (IT) PSN store is still without it.

  • MisterCraig #93 3 years ago

    I purchased this from the XBLA accidentally ( I wanted the demo).

    Best mistake I've made in recent memory!

    Looks lush and sounds awesome. Like an arcade in my living room.

    !!!!!!!!!111111

  • neosalad #94 3 years ago

    lovin the XBLA version, though i do have xbox Outrun 2 (but not c2c), i have PSP c2c version.

    one bug so far, in mp if you go the other way to other drivers when the road splits it went a bit nuts.... driving through sea and stuff, then was stuck.hopefully that will be patched though.

  • Agent_Llama #95 3 years ago

    Yup just got that bug again. You'd think it'd have been spotted before it was released really, it seems to happen an awful lot. :(

  • Darren #96 3 years ago

    I bought this game for my PS3 and its pretty slick running at a smooth 60 fps natively at 1080p. Looks a little bit nicer than the PC version of OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast with the added HDR/Bloom lighting and traffic model improvements/shadows. Shame that its so stripped down though with half the tracks and the main Challenge mode missing. Also the best music tracks are missing as there's no 1986 (my preferred versions) or Euro remixes and everything is unlocked from the start so there's less to aim for.

    The only think that sucks about the PS3 version is the £7.99 asking price which is £3 more expensive than OutRun 2006 on the PC and more expensive than the 360 version of the same game. Also the music is detected as plain, boring old Stereo by my Sony surround sound amp which is a disappointment considering OutRun 2006 on the Xbox had a DD5.1 mix. As a result the music sounds rather flat and lifeless.

  • Darren #97 3 years ago

    Oh but great game though, I've always loved OutRun and while there isn't as much here as I'd have liked, it's still a lot of fun to play and as addictive as any of the other versions.

  • ozallez #98 3 years ago

    such a simple game but still so good. Glad the PSN is coming out with new stuff... i haven't bought a "full" game since like last November or something.

  • headspin #99 3 years ago

    @ darren, i was peeved that the original arcade score of the music tracks wasnt there as well, but i just downloaded them and stream them on my 360 from my pc with the ingame music turned down, brilliant...

    passing breeze -[link url=http://www.outrun.org/OutRun/download/OutRun/arc_pb.mp3
    ]    http://ww w.outrun.org/OutRun/download/Ou...[/link]
    magical sound shower-[link url=http://www.outrun.org/OutRun/download/OutRun/arc_mss.mp3
    ]http://ww w.outrun.org/OutRun/download/Ou...[/link]
    splash wave -[link url=http://www.outrun.org/OutRun/download/OutRun/arc_sw.mp3
    ]    http://ww w.outrun.org/OutRun/download/Ou...[/link]

    if youve only got a ps3 then thats a shame cos it cant stream music on all games, thats one of the things i looked at before deciding which console to download it for as i love the original outrun music.....like yourself probably....
    Edited by 2 at 18/04/09 @ 03:10

  • espibara #100 3 years ago

    This looks so good in HD sharp and bright.

    Something about playing outrun which always cheers you up, the sun always shines, the ferraris so red, the girls a hot blonde amnd the music is classic cheese.

    Should be an alternative to antidepressants or something.

  • MisterCraig #101 3 years ago

    'God forbid a Wii version, shit graphics and waggle to run - no thanks'

    Hehe yeah, because pressing B to dive under a flying melon makes the world of sense!
    Edited by 2 at 18/04/09 @ 12:36

  • rashy #102 3 years ago

    I have to ask after the darkfall inaccurate review, that was largly written on bias, and with disputes about the reviewer actually playing the game for any length of time can I trust this review as truth? or is this review actually written by someone with an interest in the product or an opposing one?