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I know that this game allows you to change the body color and rims. It’s a curious concept - unlocking better women as you gain more skill.Īnother facet of the game is automobile customization. It’s a tad disturbing, I realize, but it’s apparently a mainstay of the genre, based on this game and some other game trailers I’ve seen. In fact, you can actually take down the heat, as I demonstrated here, quite by accident:Īnother feature of Elite Racer - which I understand is not especially uncommon in these underground-type racers - is the ability to unlock new female companionship as the levels progress. You’re trying to force other players to crash while the fuzz is in hot pursuit. Control scheme 1 worked the best for me.Įlite Racer seems to come from that “illegal drag race” sub-genre of racing. I thought I would like the accelerometer tilting option the best but I had trouble keeping the car moving in a straight line. The third option has a little steering wheel on the bottom of the touch screen. The second is to tilt the screen side to side for steering. The first is to touch the tall screen on either side in order to affect direction. This game has 3 control schemes to choose from and I experimented with each. Just as well, though the walk doesn’t look anything like the real deal. I suspect Hollywood has some potent intellectual property claims on the real thing. Err, make that the “Avenue of Fame,” as the game calls it. because the car is cruising along the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It’s really quite fun even if I couldn’t get past the first race, held in Los Angeles:
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It makes me think that this is where the iPhone’s input limitations are revealed.Īccording to my other notes, the sound effects are crackly and otherwise unclean, the developers didn’t bother with their own soundtrack at all (probably assuming the player could just pick their own soundtrack from thousands of songs already on the unit), the control buttons don’t always seem to do what they say, and why are they driving on concrete anyway? It’s probably best not to ponder that last question too much but rather to move on to a much better iPhone racing game which is similarly bold enough to name the racing surface in the title…Īsphalt 4: Elite Racer is one in a series of Asphalt racing games that are exclusively developed for assorted handheld systems.
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The UI is also sort of mess with all of its buttons (gas and brake on left 3 buttons on right pause button at top). But this parking lot just went on forever. I eventually gunned it in one direction to try to escape. You tilt the unit in different directions to steer the car but it’s very difficult to get used to, especially with another car firing bullets and missiles at you. The point of this game is to select a car for yourself and one for your computer opponent and then the 2 of you roll around the parking lot of infinity. Anyway, let me see what my notes mention from my earlier encounter with this game… ah, here it is: “don’t like this game at all.” The first is Concrete Combat Racing and it loads a curious warning:
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To that end, I downloaded and tried out 2 different 99-cent racing titles. I wanted to see how racing games played on the iPhone and iPod Touch.