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Dreamcast : 4 Wheel Thunder Reviews

Gas Gauge: 73
Gas Gauge 73
Below are user reviews of 4 Wheel Thunder and on the right are links to professionally written reviews. The summary of review scores shows the distribution of scores given by the professional reviewers for 4 Wheel Thunder. Column height indicates the number of reviews with a score within the range shown at the bottom of the column. Higher scores (columns further towards the right) are better.

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YOU'LL WANT TO SMASH YOUR FIST ON YOUR DREAMCAST

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 20, 2000
Author: Amazon User

If you don't mind starting a race where all the other drivers are as far as a half a lap in front of you and the only way to keep up with them is to hit EVERY booster icon and find EVERY shortcut then this game is for you. But if not then I suggest you wait for 4x4 Evolution to come out this fall. This game has a lot of eye candy but the best graphics in the world don't mean diddly if the game is too frustrating to play.

Terrible

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 21, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I am here to tell you that this is not the off road racing game you want to buy! The tracks are bad, the cars are bad, this game is bad. Check out 4x4 evolution if you want a good off road racing game.

Developers played this too much

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 08, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The other reviewers are right. Let's make the new releases a little less difficult. The game is a blast but it's almost impossible to unlock the rest of the tracks. The extra boosts should be there to help you out, not a necessary item to win.

cool game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: February 26, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is for the hardcore extreme gamers. Unfortunently I am not one of them. This game is an arcade based with time limits, you also pretty much get first every time in order to move on. I dont know maybe some people like time limits but all my friends know, I DONT. Once I got bored with my other games I began to play it. I would of rated it better anyway if it wasent for one thing. It is very buggy. I would play and just about every race It seemed like the ground just dissappered to leave my truck/buggy to fall of the world to its doom. It some times freezes up in the begining where it says 3-2-1 and no GO.

Great Arcade Racer

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: May 04, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Just a warning to all Japanese Dreamcast system owners (who have a mod chip, of course). This game will not work. You need an american system (even if the american system has a mod chip, the game will still work).

Otherwise, great game!

My kids love it.

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

You can race in lots of diffent ways. 2 players too.

Great fun!

Beautiful, But Definitely Tough

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: May 17, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is a nice looking game. Period. There's no pop-up anywhere in the scenery and the outside tracks are filled with many different lifelike landscapes. The pig float in the air on some tracks is funny and seems appropriate for this game that has an arcade feel, not simulation. I don't understand why Midway made the game so difficult though. If you miss one nitro boost on the track then your chances of finishing near the top are greatly reduced. At the starting line, the map in the corner shows that most of the vehicles are already halfway through the first lap. I don't get it. I like games with a high degree of difficulty, but it gets out of hand here at times. I'm sure many people will say this game is easy like a few always do, but I don't think I'm wrong. It's as if the game wants you to lose all the time since at the end of every race you don't place first in, the announcer immediately says, "You Lose!" The controls and graphics are excellent, but again the extreme difficulty brings this game down a bit as far as replay value goes.

Top Notch Arcade Style Racing

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 13, 2001
Author: Amazon User

If you like your racing games to be more of an 'arcade' experience and less of a simulation (like I do), then this is the game for you. Great Graphics, decent sound, solid control, and it's fast as hell. Highly recommended.

Best Dreamcast racing title to date!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: May 23, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is the best racing game for the Dreamcast to date, period. If you are a fan of racing games and own a dreamcast you need to purchase this game IMMEDIATELY. I have played every racing title to date for the Dreamcast and this is BY FAR the best. I would go so far as to say this is the best non-simulation console racing game ever available, on any platform. If you even remotely liked sega rally, or speed devils you must buy this game. It is easily twice as good as either title. The graphics are equal to that of soul calibur, if not better, and there are a huge amount of both indoor and outdoor tracks. As far as the difficulty of the game, it is tough, but not impossible. I am on the eighth track out of 24 in championship mode after about 20 total hours of game play. The game has an excellent feeling of both elevation change & speed, especially when you hit the boost. It also allows for three different camera angles, two rear + in-car. Take it from a seasoned race game fan, you will not regret buying this game!

HOLD ON!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: May 11, 2000
Author: Amazon User

DO NOT (I repeat) DO NOT listen to the negative Nancy's who say anything bad about this game. True it is tough but not impossible like they make it seem. This is a white~knuckle racer like no other, honestly. If you like arcade type racers, this is the Mother Lode. 24 tracks? What more can you want? Oh, graphics? The best on a racer on the DC yet. Ya that good. The sound is a little, eh, but the you won't be bothered by it either. This is the game to get. Arcade perfect? Uh uh, ...better. This is the first game to leave me uh, I can't find the words. (NOTE, the first 2 tracks aren't the best, if you have seen them, don't sweat it, the best is yet to come.)


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