OutRun Online Arcade Comments by Oli Welsh

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!

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

Slowdown?

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

/salutes

See you all tonight.

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.

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.

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

@seasidebaz

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

http://live.xbox.com/en-GB/profile/profi...

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!

insincere_dave:

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

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

As good as MGS4 ?

/runs

@seasidebaz

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

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'. :(

Jet Set Radio now pleaze!

Seconded.

I think i'll third it as well.

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.

/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

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.

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.

Can't stand Oli Welsh or his reviews, but had to agree with the guy yelling "Shenmue 3!!!!". Definitely one game I wish SEGA would really push to get made, and get made properly.

A release of Shenmue I & II on Live, PSN and even Wii would be a good start.

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

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

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

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.

downloading right now!

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

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

"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!

Ugh, the online stuff is pathetic.

I'll stick with my PC version.

"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.

Bit dissapointed.

The unlockables was what made Outrun 2006 for me. Loved the original music. It also feels a little souless. Something I can't quite put my finger on.

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

@asphaltcowboy

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

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.

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.

@ 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.

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!

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

*mopes*

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

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

@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.

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

@busboy33

+1

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

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

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

Bought

2147 on ending A!

EU (IT) PSN store is still without it.

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

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.

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. :(

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.