Ford Racing: Off Road

This is a racing game where you can drive all kind of Ford off road vehicles, Ford 4x4 SUV's, Land Rover's and Range Rover's.
Like most of the racing games, you have several race options to choose, the Quick Race where you get in and go, the Career mode, the Tournament, the Arcade and the Multiplayer.

In Career mode, you have a Career Map, Garage, and then Showroom. In the Career Map the game details your current progress. Only the first race in the map its unlocked, so you have to start there. You get in and the game gives you a description of the race and the prizes. But before starting you need a car, so you have to go to the showroom to buy your car. You dont have much money at start, so you can only buy 1 of the 2 first models. You are given $6000 to buy a Ranger Truck or a Defender SUV.

Each vehicle has three stats: Acceleration, Speed, and Handling. There is absolutely no difference in the starting stats between these vehicles, just the price. Now that you have a vehicle, its time to race, to be able to advence in the career mode, and unlock other races, you have to end first, there is no other place.

There are not much differences between the Career Mode and the Tournament Mode. You get a little more money to start, allowing you to pick 4 different models. The process is identical to Career Mode. The races are longer in the Tournament.

The Arcade mode allows you to race a course backwards. You can unlock several types of races. This ties in directly with the Multiplayer. The multiplayer allows for a split screen or two player game. You have a ton of games you can unlock in the Arcade. The Multiplayer Mode only offers you three different games.

The game offers no challenge just go forward, there is no need to break to make a turn, just hit the walls and you will bounce back into the track. You can make 90 degrees turns in an SUV at 140 KPH and not flip.

You will have to compete against AI vehicles that are the same model, but they are able to just out-accelerate you in the wide open, while you are driving at 200 KPH.
The races are very predictable and the AI its pretty dumb when it comes to defend their place.
It is also impossible to make an opponent spin th AI cars are glued to the ground.

For a 2008 game, the graphics are pretty lame, low quality, it looks like a 90's game, you can only see some scratches in the car, no damage, there is only a damage meter.

The gameplay its not the best, the cars sometimes are hard to control and drive, the worst its that you can't adjust the driving keys to your own style, you have to use the arrow keys, and there is no option to change it.

The car sound effects are awfull, simply awfull.

This could have been a great game, its not entirely bad, but most of the gamers wont like this game, I do not recommend to buy it. (4/10)

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GAME INFO

Developer: Razorworks
Publisher: Strategy First
Release Date: 23 september 2008
Genre: Racing
Players: 1-2
Platforms: PC/PSP/PS2/WII
Cost: 19.99 USD

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

CPU: P4 2.0 Ghz
RAM: 512 Mb
HDD: 500 Mb
VGA: 128 Mb video Card

damsch12, on 26 January 2012 - 01:40 PM, said:

Indeed they are. Didn't we have LAN gameplay too 4 years ago, though?
A split screen just sounds so awkward to me

You're good at reviews

Flaw, on 26 January 2012 - 02:49 PM, said:

Yeah, we did

Flaw, on 26 January 2012 - 02:49 PM, said:

Thanks

Another great review Damian! You really attack the games you review. I don't think there has been a game that you have given a rating of higher than 5

So you will only race AI that have the same car model as you? The car models can't/don't vary in a race?

petersmileyface, on 27 January 2012 - 06:04 AM, said:

Thats no entirely true... i did gave some high rates, and if you check other review sites, my score sometimes is better.
I try a lot of crappy games so that way you dont have to try them and loose your money

petersmileyface, on 27 January 2012 - 06:04 AM, said:

They do use other models, what i meant to say is that if you race against an AI player with the same car as yours, it will out-accelerate you, you will see him coming from behind, pass you and leave you behind.

damsch12, on 27 January 2012 - 11:59 AM, said:

I only just saw them now I didn't realise you're intentions, +rep for that.

damsch12, on 27 January 2012 - 11:59 AM, said:

Oh okay sorry I misunderstood.