Recent reviews by b3nderz

it's cheap and it's awesome

Now I need a Kenzan! remake

It's Half-Life. But it's not. But, F, it's Half-Life

Nice co-op experience

Just one last run

OUI

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Let the hunt BEGINS

And the refund request goes. It's a bad game, with frame rate dropping for no reason, bad gunplay, bad AI, not very good looking. A kind of a low budget Fallout clone. No thanks.

I just finish my first Dakar. I struggled to choose if I would mark the game as "Recommended" or not.

Did I enjoyed? Yes, since I was waiting a Rally Raid game for years, I enjoyed to have hard times behind the wheel. But there is some things I won't want to see in racing games.

Let's take a look at pros and cons.

PROS
# Rally Raid, with official Dakar licence
# All categories (cars, trucks, motos, quads)
# Stages (dunes, tracks, rivers, slow zones, deserts, mountains, etc..)
# Steering wheels compatibility
# Navigation notes (actual road book)
# You can get out of the car for digging when you're stuck in mud or sand

CONS
# Only 180° in the wheel (that's sucks on tracks, not a big problem in dunes BTW)
# AI drivers are dumb (they miss all the f***ing turns)
# Co-driver will make you crazy. I know I'm lost, just HELP ME FOR THE F*** SAKE!
# When outside of the car the pilot is hard to control. And guess what? Your co-driver just stay stand up and saying "no time for flowers, let's go" every 5 seconds. F*** YOU AND HELP ME STUPID.

It's not so bad, after all. It's not a Rally game, so don't have a decent driving feeling because of the 180° is not a big deal. In Rally Raid we're in dunes so it's OK. Well, at the beginning at the game yes. We'll see that later.

AI is missing all the turns, but we don't see other cars often (and it's a good thing in a Rally Raid) so not a real problem, because their time are OK. Yes, you guess right! At the beginning of the game their time are decent. We will speak about that later.

Your co-driver, your stupid co-driver…. In fact at the end it’s OK. I’ll come back to this later.

Get out of the car is a pain. And because of the difficulty of the road you have to get out often. In the first stages, after that you’ll finish all your stages by staying all the way in your car. Let’s get back to it later.


Did you seen the point?

First half of the game, in Peru.
The game is so awesome, you drive in dunes, keeping focus on your very sharp notes to find your way. You’re struggling against the road, against the clock, you’re late in the standings because they’re so strong. But it’s so exciting, winning a stage is pure adrenaline, you’re so proud of you, you want more, more, more, more!!!!

Then it come Bolivia.
But where the f*** are the dunes? Well, OK, tracks is a little less exciting but it’s the game, Dakar is not only dunes after all. But it’s a little more boring because this kind of driving could be better. But stages are still difficult. And watch of the rocks everywhere because you can break your car!
But, hey, what happened to all the drivers? I had 1 hour late when quitting Peru and I started to get 2 hours. OMG did I really lead by 2 hours? Did I become good at this? Not so sure…

Final country, Argentina.
Where I realise something. The dev team didn’t have the time to finish the game. The game became the shadow of himself when I started to drive in Argentina.
Stages description doesn’t catch the road book. What? Maybe I “read” the road book too fast, let’s get driving. OK… They said I’ll get back to dunes, but this stage is only tracks, rivers, tracks and rivers again. WTF?
Second stage, the same, but worst. And worst, and worst. The AI just fell in stupidity, I won this Dakar leading by 5 f***ing hours and half!!!
And you know what is very insane? The notes don’t match the road at all! The 2 last stages you can see notes don’t match the real thing. Waypoints are kind of delayed (they appear way before they should). They didn’t have the time to finish their game!
I don’t even remember the last time I was in difficulty in the car, stuck somewhere in mud or even lost. I almost forget you can get lost in the game! Crazy!!!

But I still have hope for Dakar 19. Please, make the same game, but finish it. Please.
That’s why I mark it as “recommended”, for the hope. And because the game is so awesome in Peru. Please, DO NOT ♥♥♥♥♥♥ UP DAKAR 19.

And don’t forget the Africa DLC this time FFS.