![]() As part of the technique one learns about the game is how to drive just on the outside of the lip, where the dirt changes from muddy and less grippable to fresh and easier to grip, making it the prime, fast section of the track on which to race.īut, and the emphasis is on BUT, one also has to remember that this is a dirt track, and everyone is traveling phenomenally fast around ovals a circles. In sprint cars racing, the cars drive incredibly fast around a dirt track that forms grooves and lips that affect the way one drives. Normally I wouldn't use this word to describe anything but a wild mushroom adventure, but here it really means unusual and different. In pure racing terms, World of Outlaws is a trippy racing experience. World of Outlaws provides three camera perspectives (above-and-behind-the-car medium and high, and in-cockpit view), and now that I have finally succumbed to always driving in the first-person of the game, I have come to find that the sense of speed of most games, and especially this one, is extremely pleasing. The race itself is a keen blend of real-world sprint car physics and accurate car behavior that requires a little learning curve, in addition to well-balanced gameplay elements, making the racing hard but not impossible, real-feeling, but not so accurate that it's boring or dull, and very, very fast. The game features 16 cars on-screen simultaneously, all of which are programmed with a variety of AI behaviors. The one-to two-player game is an interesting ride. The version we saw at Infogrames' Gamers' Day is about 60%-70% complete, and is due for the US market next January. Ratbag has also created three fantasy tracks for extra thrills. Ratbag, which actually sponsors a sprint car team, has acquired the full World of Outlaw licenses, which includes all 24 official drivers, cars, teams, and tracks. ![]() But the six-month season draws 2 million viewers on TNN (The Nashville Network) across the US from March through November, and the official World of Outlaws organization is second in ratings only to NASCAR in the US in motorsports. For most of us, it's a rather obscure sport. If you haven't heard of spring car racing, neither had I. If you look closely at the 800-horsepowered vehicles, the rear right wheel is unusually large, creating extra leverage and balance as the cars hit the wide, long turns. Because the cars travel in oval or circular shaped course, always turning left, the wings are higher on the left, inner side, and lowered and small on the right side, to equalize the car's stability. The cars travel at such fast speeds that the irregular shaped wings create a down force pressure strong enough to keep the cars on the ground. World of Outlaws is an entirely unique racing game based on the wildly popular mid-west racing event called sprint car racing, in which high-powered dirt-cars outfitted with giant upside down airplane wings on their roofs barrel across oval courses in 30-lap races.
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