Game Data:
- Review Date: June 2, 2021
- Release Date: March 26, 1993
- Platform: Sega Genesis
- Developer: Sega
- Publisher: Sega
- Genre: Racing
Description: Racers have to navigate their way through 4 stages of various settings trying to reach a goal at the end.
Positives:
- The car doesn’t flip into the air upon contact with other cars, signs, trees, etc. It just spins out a bit. While it’s less dramatic, it’s fairer to players because the time lost to the animation is majorly reduced. It’s still a penalty, though, as time will be lost due to the time used to get up to speed, which I feel is fair.
Negatives:
- Out Run did a nice job of building atmosphere right from the start. The game started on a beach with blue skies, sunshine, and a crowd of people. Out Run 2019 throws that all away by starting the game and each of its stages in a mostly featureless tunnel. There’s nothing exciting about that and the scenery reveal coming out of the tunnel falls flat. This isn’t eastbound Interstate 376 in Pittsburgh.
- The forks in the road are still there, but unlike the original, where choosing a path was an irreversible, game changing decision, here they’re basically alternate routes that lead back to the same place. It doesn’t matter much which way is chosen; it all leads back to the same place in the end.
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Final Opinion: Out Run 2019 was unable to recreate the magic the first game had. Skip this and see if there’s an arcade still around that has the first game in it.
Grade: C