![]() In terms of innovation, these Face-Offs are perhaps the most innovative things to be found in DriveClub. Particularly if you nail the so-called Face-Offs within DriveClub's events. Good driving also earns you Fame - DriveClub's name for Experience Points - which gives you a new car every time you level-up, and in the early stages, this happens with satisfying regularity. Most races have three objectives, a star up for grabs from each one, and certain amounts of these stars are required to unlock new tranches of single-player races. There's a grittier look than the rather squeaky-clean aesthetic of Forza Horizon 2, and it delivers all the environmental detail (it features glorious scenery from countries including Chile, Norway, Canada and Scotland), lighting and effects - realistic dust, gravel and so on - that you would demand from a next-gen game. Which might not be unconnected to the fact that DriveClub's originally mooted launch was delayed - wisely, in our opinion, since at last year's E3 Show in June, it looked pants and didn't feel as floor-to-the-floor fast as it should have.īut that was then, and this is now - and the release copy of DriveClub, from a visual perspective, is very impressive. So it's perhaps less USP and more current trend. Come December and Ubisoft's open-world racer, The Crew, will also be in contention for the social racer crown. ![]() The trouble is that Codemasters' previous-gen Grid Autosport and the just-released Forza Horizon 2 (Microsoft's bid to grab driving game bragging-rights for Xbox One owners this Christmas) also let you form car clubs. Perhaps by the time DriveClub 2 comes around it will have congealed into a coherent whole that can win the race in true five-star fashion. Which is a bit of a shame, as it undoubtedly contains some good ideas. Overall there is great fun to be had in DriveClub, but you have to work harder than you ought in order to find it. Microsoft's Forza Horizon 2, in contrast, has an etched-in-stone and focused sense of personality.ĭespite its delays to assure pole position in the social driving game world, we also continued to find small but aggravating bits of evidence that DriveClub has been lashed together with one eye on the clock. But while all the ingredients are there, DriveClub has a slightly bitty, chuck-it-in-and-see feel to it. The game's fundamental aspects, such as handling, are spot-on - and very much the equal of Forza Horizon 2, or even slightly superior. ![]() But it can't acquire that "great game" label in our opinion, which is disappointing given that it's expected to be a standard-bearer for the PS4. So is it a green or red flag? DriveClub is a good game, that much is clear, and if you prefer to race in a sociable rather than solitary setting then it's a very good game. Now at the finish line, is it the polished racer we all want it to be? Pressure successfully elevated to deliver that exclusive racer everyone wants, DriveClub has seen multiple delays on its journey to release. So it fell to stalwart developer Evolution Studios, based in the glamorous environs of Runcorn here in Blighty, to push something all-new to the PS4 platform. Christmas is seemingly coming too early for the Japanese games giant - it has an impressive array of exclusive PS4 titles due, but the vast majority of them won't arrive until next year. Sony already has perhaps the biggest driving franchise of them all - Gran Turismo - up its sleeve, so why the shift in gear to DriveClub? Gran Turismo 5 took five years to make, while Gran Turismo 6 came out just last year, so the company wisely chose not to hold its breath for a worthy PS4 release. Driving games have across-the-board appeal and sell well, which is what makes DriveClub such an important game for Sony and the PlayStation 4. ![]() Everybody loves showing the world how they could have been Lewis Hamilton if they hadn't somehow fallen into that job pushing PPI claims at the call centre, via the medium of piloting exotic virtual machinery without the slightest risk to life and limb (even if they actually possess the skills of Maureen from Driving School). (Pocket-lint) - No self-respecting console can truly be said to have arrived until it gets that exclusive racing game.
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