Levelhunter #3!

Hey guys! Today were going to be doing our first UNITY GAME. :)

Featured on the front page of Kongregate, I saw that this new hot game was attracting a lot of attention, so I decided to check it out.

The game is...

Crash Drive

Big Idea: This game is a semi-sandbox type game where you are able to explore giant, biome-based worlds (snow, desert, tropical, forest) and earn money, points and cash by carrying out tricks and flips on your vehicle.

A rally car game with a twist, Crash Drive offers a huge, vibrant, and colorful world for your car or truck to explore, with plenty of ramps, twists, hills and ledges for you to maneuver and carry out your tricks like your flips, drifts, and jumps. The game comes with a multiplayer function as well, but it's not very effective as the only "interaction" it provides is speeding way past and losing sight or crashing into/flying over each other. However the random competitive events give a more PvP sort of environment for a while. 

Now let's get a little bit into the details.

My first impression of the game was this vague nostalgic feeling. Remember those 3-D games that used to come with the old iMacs? It's like those, except a lot more tested, tried and true. Practically no glitches physically were found, as well as any graphical glitches like seams in the texture, dirty shades, etc...

The shaders and graphics were mellow and colorful, with the subtle cartoonish hues coming from houses, trees, tepees, roads, etc. There were no harsh, jutting edges to the 3-D model and was not a GPU-murderer, running cleanly and without any problems on my MacBook Air (Intel HD 5000 graphics).

Although backing the car up twists the camera in a funny way, the controls are all extremely responsive in midair, allowing for precise movements and landings to chain together tricks to reach a score multiplier of up to 5. 

This game stays surprisingly fresh and entertaining for a godly time. The map environment is vibrant and colorful with sharp looking colors, but with none of the sharp, extruded edges that we see so often on uninspiring 3-D games with bad modeling and world design. Collision detection is amazing and the integrity of the game is kept through a consistent mood, color, and tone choice. 

This is one game you should always play at least once on the Internet. And you always know - with these type of semi-sandbox, achievement based games, there's a 100% chance that the devs will push greater updates. ;)

Final Rating: 9.2/10