OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast Comments by Tom Bramwell

Got my Xbox copy this morning and have been playing it for a couple of hours... absolutely brilliant, better than the original OutRun 2 for sure. Shame it isn't backward compatible with the 360 and it's a bigger shame that I'm still totally hooked on Oblivion. I WILL play it, it's just a case of me dragging myself off Bethesda's classic first... which I'm off to play... now...

"Think it needs 2.6 for firmware."

Oh bollocks, I wish I'd thought to check this before ordering it :-(

I'd say it would definately be the 2.6 firmare and therefore the Wifi part of the game will refuse to work across different firmware revisions (from what I've read around the net this happens with all games no matter their age as long as their firmware revision differ from one to another).

Maybe the poorer US scores are due to the Inital D syndrome, it's not based off Japanese Anime and doesn't involve Toyotas, Hondas, Nissans, Mazdas etc running at a Touge (point-to-point hill climb/decent race between 2 cars). (ie. illegal street racing)

It's Just a theory.

I couldn't care what people really think about this game, all I know is by next Thursday I'll have both my pre-orders at home ready to get back into the best version of outrun ever made.

Bates + SeesThrough: That was just a few thoughts on the hardware(and a few points about games development), Im basically saying lets wait and see, its more of a crusade against Sony Fanboy missinformation and Marketing hype. If its the games they are waiting for, fair enough but personally I've yet to see them announce anything that has me excited about the release of the PS3(which is why it confuses me to see them complain about the 360 line-up which is great so far released and in developement, but thats IMO and Im entitled to say that since its brought up so many times in 360 threads and comments).

Darren: So it's worth owning both on the Xbox then? Good to hear! I was only concered about having the feeling of buying the same game twice aslong as theres alot of new stuff in it then thats enough for me(not going to pay full price though).

this game sucks.

Frod it wasn't me that brought the subject up of bias here, besides my first post was on topic... kinda. I have noticed what morris was saying but we can atleast wait until the PS3 arrives and see if any little shortcomings are exagerated for the good of "next gen" and any lack of innovation is pointed out to the same degree by the same people who have done this for the 360 games.

One thing is for sure though, some of the articles topics chosen and headlines given show some sort of a pattern *random figures from MS come in* "MS suffer Big Fat loss", *Sony Loses court case, odered to pay 90M and discontinue sales of the Dual Shock controler*... Um where is it? I didnt see that here if it was posted and if it was it wasnt up for half as long.

I guess it doesnt matter if some do show a bias to one console because that happens but then why dont they just fess up and review games for their favourite only because people arent going to get the best advice from them otherwise.

Is it brilliant on the gamecube?

Just bought the PSP version... Terrific fun. Two of the best PSP games are from SEGA & SUMO. Carry on gentlemen, that's all I can say.

/Goes play another twenty quick-five-minutes-games in a row...

I'd just like to add that I haven't purchased an xbox game since halo2, and i've not enjoyed a driving-themed game quite so much since crazy taxi on the DC. Spot on.

Calgon: "which is why it confuses me to see them complain about the 360 line-up which is great so far released and in developement"
Great? It mainly consists of bad X-Men/Pac-Man rehashes and sequels and ports of PC games. I can play Prey/Hitman/Oblivion on the PC, and they're all better there. I dunno about you, but I haven't heard of one 360 game that's actually out that looks like it's a must-have of any kind.

£7 delivered from Woolies.


AWESOME.

Now backwards compatible! YEAH! OK!