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Overall, Virtua Racing is an excellent game for racing and provides plenty of challenges with its four levels of difficulty. But if you are looking for stunning graphics and superb sounds, then maybe you should go for something else.
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Virtua Racing only offers three tracks to conquer. One is a standard race track with a few extra turns, which is the easiest. The second track has a few more turns, while the final track is full of twists. None of these tracks are as well designed like racing games by today's standards, but they get the job done. All of the tracks have checkpoints to pass if you pass through the checkpoints time is extended on your clock. If your clock runs out the game is over, no matter how close you are to finishing the race.
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Virtua Racing: Flat Out is, in common with most of the 3D Ages range, a fairly no-frills remake. In addition to the three tracks of the coin-op, you get three all-new ones - a short loop set around a sunny Pacific island, and two tracks which aren't the same as, but bring to mind, the extra courses from the 32X game - a long one set in a mountainous orange desert, and one tight, twisting city track strewn with right-angle turns and bridges. You ... get a couple of extra game modes in addition to the straight three-track, single-race Arcade Mode: a "free run" option where you can race any track immediately against your choice of opponent numbers, laps and weather conditions (some token weather being one of the few additions in this remake), and Grand Prix career mode, where you race a season of all six courses (four laps each, for a total of just 24 laps per "season" rather than the Saturn game's daunting 100) and can unlock several new vehicles.
Many of you probably remember Virtua Racing, either because of its unique polygonal look or because the arcade game's cabinet was shaped like a F1 car. Sega blew the world away when it released this game in 1992. It was the first arcade racing game to employ true 3D graphics, thanks to Sega's inaugural Model 1 motherboard. More significant than that, though, the game's three lifelike courses ushered in the AM2 division's reputation for superlative track design, leading the way for games like Daytona USA and Ferrari F355 Challenge.
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Other games in the Sega Ages series include Streets of Rage, Phantasy Star II, Phantasy Star: End of the Millennium, Gain Ground, Bonanza Bros., Alex Kidd in Miracle World, Last Bronx and the aforementioned Virtua Racing. According to Slashdot, Columns and Puzzle&Action are both ... listed on the Japanese 3D Ages site.
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It's getting so congested on the videogame highway these days that you can't go anywhere without your path being blocked by racing games like Wildtrax, Virtua Racing, Indycar 500, Ridge Racer and Daytona USA. And now Crystal Dynamics add to the traffic flow with their fourth 3DO offering, Off World Interceptor.
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