N.GEN Racing
Developer(s)Curly Monsters
Publisher(s)Infogrames
Platform(s)PlayStation
Release
  • EU: May 12, 2000
  • NA: June 20, 2000[1]
Genre(s)Racing video game, combat flight simulator
Mode(s)Single-player video game, multiplayer video game

NGEN Racing is an aircraft combat/racing video game developed by British[2] studio Curly Monsters and published by Infogrames for the PlayStation in 2000.

Gameplay

In this game, players compete in races and use the winnings to add upgrades to their planes.[3]

Development

The game was released late in the PlayStation's life cycle.[4]

Reception

The game received above-average reviews according to the review aggregation website GameRankings.[5] Doug Trueman of NextGen said that the game was "Not bad, but not what it could have been. And forget about seeing other planes while you're airborne."[3]

David Smith of IGN praised the game's originality as well as its depth & level of customizability. Smith further called the game's more difficult races 'intense', but criticized its 'uninspired' and "predictible" track designs.[13] Miguel Lopez of GameSpot called the game "innovative" and 'a reinterpretation of the genre', further praising its fast-paced action racing gameplay. He praised its 'rich' career mode, calling it the "heart of the game", as well as its normal and 'pro' control schemes, but criticized the inability to remap the controls due to 'unintuitive' control placement.[12]

Shawn Sanders of GameRevolution praised the game's graphics as "detailed" and 'impressive for the Playstation', stating that "NGEN has some of the best graphics and background textures that I have seen in a PS title all year", further praising its colors as "bright and vivid", as well as its "very well done" particle effects and lighting. Sanders also praised its "smooth and constant" frame rate, but despite its impressive graphics and selection of planes, he criticized the game as fundamentally being 'boring', further calling its combat "kind of lame".[4] Keith Ellis of Eurogamer praised the game's ability to customize planes, as well as the ability to choose between normal and 'pro' control schemes; he also praised the "very nice" and "colourful" graphics, but noted that "irritatingly" the player's plane blends in with the background too well, causing the player to be "passed by another plane, and not to realise it until you see your position in the race has changed". Despite later levels becoming more difficult and "frantic", Ellis expressed that he got "very bored ... far too quickly" due to the game's "repetitive" music and gameplay.[9]

References

  1. ^ IGN staff (June 20, 2000). "NGEN Races Onto Shelves". IGN. Ziff Davis. Retrieved January 4, 2021.
  2. ^ Yin-Poole, Wesley (November 16, 2012). "Quantum Redshift: the forgotten Xbox exclusive Microsoft paid $1m for to take on WipEout". Eurogamer. Gamer Network.
  3. ^ a b c Trueman, Doug (September 2000). "N.GEN Racing [sic]". NextGen. No. 69. Imagine Media. p. 108. Retrieved January 4, 2021.
  4. ^ a b c Sanders, Shawn (July 2000). "NGEN Racing". GameRevolution. CraveOnline. Archived from the original on February 16, 2004. Retrieved January 4, 2021.
  5. ^ a b "NGEN Racing for PlayStation". GameRankings. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on May 27, 2019. Retrieved January 4, 2021.
  6. ^ Woods, Nick. "NGEN Racing - Review". AllGame. All Media Network. Archived from the original on November 15, 2014. Retrieved January 5, 2021.
  7. ^ Gaudiosi, Peyton (June 21, 2000). "N.Gen Racing [sic]". Gamecenter. CNET. Archived from the original on August 18, 2000. Retrieved March 5, 2021.
  8. ^ EGM staff (September 2000). "NGEN Racing". Electronic Gaming Monthly. No. 134. Ziff Davis.
  9. ^ a b Ellis, Keith "DNM" (July 31, 2000). "N-Gen Racing [sic]". Eurogamer. Gamer Network. Archived from the original on January 7, 2001. Retrieved January 4, 2021.
  10. ^ "NGEN Racing". Game Informer. No. 89. FuncoLand. September 2000.
  11. ^ Van Stone, Matt "Kodomo" (September 2000). "N.GEN Racing [sic]". GameFan. Vol. 8, no. 9. Shinno Media. p. 73. Retrieved January 5, 2021.
  12. ^ a b Lopez, Miguel (June 20, 2000). "NGEN Racing [date mislabeled as "May 17, 2006"]". GameSpot. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on October 9, 2003. Retrieved January 4, 2021.
  13. ^ a b Smith, David (June 21, 2000). "NGEN Racing". IGN. Ziff Davis. Archived from the original on March 6, 2002. Retrieved January 5, 2021.
  14. ^ "NGEN Racing". Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine. Vol. 3, no. 12. Ziff Davis. September 2000.

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