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Ready to rumble?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 21, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Rumble Racing combines fun-to-take shortcuts, crazy ramps, racing with plenty of cool powerups, and awesome tricks. Rumble Racing sort of combines Tony Hawk, Beetle Racing 64, Grand Turismo, and Mario Kart 64. If you are a fan of any of the games I have mentioned above I would definetly recommend this game.

Fun fun FUN!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

If you find Gran Turismo to be sterile or overly complicated, you're probably more of a "Need for Speed" person. While you're waiting for that, GET RUMBLE RACING!!! This game is so much fun!

The tracks have PERSONALITY, the powerups and short-cuts are fun, and the basic premise of the game is unique and a great time!

I give it 5 stars for it's fun-factor. The graphics are not 5 stars, but they're not terrible.

Enjoy!

Totally underrated game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is a great racing game! There aren't alot of racing games out there with weapons and a friend suggested this game and I'm so glad I listened. The boards are great, it's very easy to steer and the weapons are great especially the TORNADO weapon! The first time I saw this weapon I actually screamed it was scary. The boards are neat looking and the cars are great too! I don't really hear too much about this game and it's ashame. I guess that means there won't be a part 2. This is definitely a must have.

Annoying Commentary

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: May 29, 2001
Author: Amazon User

When you first play Rumble Racing, you will notice that only half the game is available to you. To unlock the meatier cars and tracks, you will have to finish the championships. Doing this can be very frustrating, as the oppenents a.i is excelllent. This means that you will be doing the same race for ages, not good.There is also one other tiny flaw within the game, and that is the most incredibly annoying commentator in history. When you land a particularly good stunt, or blow one of the other cars into the air, the commentator will say "woah, you rawk!", or in the worst possible case "I bet you feel as happy as a squirrel on a nutfarm". This is one thing I hope that ea will rectify for the sequel (and the next, and the next, as is always the case with ea games). Overall: if you are a racing nut, consider this ESSENTIAL-this truly is ssx with cars.

THE FUNNEST GAME EVER!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: November 28, 2002
Author: Amazon User

THIS IS MY FAVORITE GAME EVER! IT IT SO MUCH FUN! DUMP ALL THE BAD REVIEWS BECAUSE THIS GAME IS DA BOMB! THERE IS ALL THESE DIFFERNT CARS, LIKE 30! YOU CAN DO ALL THESE STUNTS, AND THROW BOMBS AND OTHER WEAPONS AT OTHER CARS! YOU CAN NEVER GET BORED FROM THIS GAME! JUST ABOUT ALL RACING GAMES YOU GET BORED FROM, THIS ONE, YOU DON`T! BECAUSE YOU NEVER GET TIRED OF THROWING FREEZIES AND BOMBS AND STUFF AT OTHER CARS AND MAKING THEM FLIP IN THE AIR, AND YOU DOING STUNTS AND GAINING SPEED!

Looks more like PSX

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: December 17, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The graphics on this game were extremely disappointing. Really blocky and jagged. I was bored with it within 10 minutes. Don't pay more than $10

When the computer cheats, the game isn't fun anymore.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: June 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Graphics - Good enough, I suppose, but not the best. They are a little on the grainy side, especially during the introduction movie. Which doesn't make sense, because it uses shots from the game! How is it that playing the game looks better than the intro? The tracks aren't really anything special. Though I have to admit I have yet to see another car racing game with tracks full of places to do stunts.

Controls - Very smooth. No problems here.

Sound - Excellent. Cars have slightly different motor sounds, which you probably won't be paying attention to while you're racing, though. The announcer never seems to get annoying, even though after a while you've heard everything he says at least once. The music is okay, but once again, you won't be paying much attention to it either.

Gameplay - The main area where the game falls apart. For several reasons. For one, you HAVE TO have a friend to play this game with you while doing the championships and try to get the top two or three spots every race. Because the computer cheats, even on the easiest setting (forgiving) and especially when you start hitting the Elite class races. You need to get the top spots so the CPU can't win the gold, because if one of you doesn't doesn't get gold you can't advance to the next championship.

How does the CPU cheat? It seems to have unlimited turbos and unlimited traction power ups that it can seem to activate at will to counter the effects of other power ups and zoom ahead of you. Freeze, the ice power up that affect a cars handling ability will sometimes have no effect on them if they get hit with it, while it can end up getting you completely turned around and crashed into a wall. Plus the CPU seems to be able to take all the corners, turns and shortcuts perfectly. At the beginning it doesn't even use the shortcuts, but later it uses all of them and knows which ones to use to get better lap times.

Once you do manage to get gold in the championships, you will unlock one new car, and one new track. However, this unlocks only half the cars, as you will have to find a hidden egg on each track to unlock the other cars. Had I known this when I first played it, I wouldn't have been so pissed off the first time I played through the game. Because when I had finished nearly all the championships I still hadn't unlocked all the cars. Plus to begin with, most of the cars you do unlock are worthless. The only cars that have decent handling are Tiberius and Silver Streak. Don't even bother touching the other cars, not even the Cataclysm, though it has the same stats as the two I mentioned, since you will notice a difference in how the car handles. Which makes this game's cheating more evident, as it can seem to propel cars that have sublimely awful stats and handling to the top spots, since I've seen cars like The Banger place second.

Replay Value - Almost non-existent. For one, the game is a pain in the ass to play through because of the cheapness and cheating of the computer. You'll never get the best lap times, so being able to race the tracks with your friend for fun to see who can get the best records has been ruined. The top scores for total race time and lap time for each track are IMPOSSIBLE to break! So are the scores on the stunt mode. Who the hell set these records, they have to be manufactured (meaning I think they were just typed in) because you don't have a hope in hell of ever touching them. So once you've unlocked all the cars and all the tracks, there isn't much to do. Like I mentioned before, 90% of the cars aren't even worth unlocking in the first place. You could play through the whole thing over again from scratch, but what's the point?

IT DOES NOT GET ANY BETTER FOR PS2

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: April 26, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is the best for the playstation 2 platform. The graphis are amazing and so is the game. If you buy one game for the system buy this one you will love it.

Not bad

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: March 31, 2003
Author: Amazon User

A pretty interesting arcade style racer with good crashes and nice speeds. If you are a racing fan and have money and you don't know how to spend it, consider spending it on this.

so-so

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: June 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is a pretty good game (well short from great). I would give it 3 1/2 stars if I could. I will list the good and the bad.

Good: *The Graphics *The Powerups (especially the Twister!) *2 player co-op mode

Bad: *2 players! I would give it 4 stars if it had 4 players *It took me 2 weeks to win this game. A five star game should take 1-4 months to win.

This is only good if your a big racing fan. I would save your money for something like TM Black.

Key to the future: *1-4 players (including co-op mode) *more stuff to unlock

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