Cruis'n Exotica

"Turbo boosts, stunts, nitros and more! Three modes of game play to choose from! 28 exotic cars to race! Race in style! Cruis'n Exotica takes you to fantastic locales in even more fantastic vehicles. Race through steamy Jurassic jungles or on the ocean floor. Midair stunts keep the action nonstop! Valuable shortcuts and nitro boosts speed up the already fast-paced action! Fantastic driving excitement straight from the arcade!"

Not the greatest race game and a little bit basic as face games go. It can be fun to play for a while but will feel like a grind if you try to go for all the cars. I start off in Challenge mode which contains four events per track. Forward and reverse point to point courses followed by a three lap race and a drag race. During the drag race you can earn nitro boosts used anywhere else in the game. However these nitro's have to be earned by repeating a specific button sequence shown before hand. The problem with the these is not so much remembering the sequence but the timing which is greatly affected by input latency so the game can decide it didn't see the input.

Freestyle mode is up next and this is just a singe point to point race per track in an effort to get the best times I guess. Time is also awarded for doing stunts during a race.

Lastly, Exotica mode. This is very much like freestyle mode except you have to do every track in order as well as come first in every race to progress. Completing this mode unlocks Exotic gfx modes which look really funky and probably not an ideal way to play the game.

The longplay is long and repetitive with content constantly repeated but I've shown it this way in order to show where most of the car unlocks happen in the game. All the FAQs regarding car unlocks for the N64 game are not entirely correct and some are way off. . I show all three game modes and once shown there is still more to do. Vehicles unlock via miles accumulated so there is a bit of a grind ahead. You can earn miles in any mode and vehicles will unlock at specific points. There is a huge chunk of boring racing cut following the exotic modes showing in order to accumulate enough miles for the Glide vehicle. Some racing is cut after earning the Rail vehicle as well. Throughout the game i constantly switch vehicles in order to show them all. While all vehicles have there own attributes, it doesn't really make a difference which you take, at least until the notably faster ones at the end of the game.

For reference, I'll list the extra vehicles and what I have found to be the unlock for that vehicle. There could be other in game events to unlock them earlier. Challenge mode should be completed first as a prerequisite for unlocking later vehicles.

Heavy Liftin - Complete Sahara tracks in Challenge Mode
Lil' Lightnin - Accumulate 5,000 Miles
Jalopie - Complete Vegas Tracks in Challenge Mode
Bad Mobile - Accumulate 10,000 Miles
Hunkajunk - Complete Holland tracks in Challenge Mode
Skidmarks - Accumulate 20,000 Miles
G Ride - Complete All tracks Challenge Mode
Cooler - Complete All tracks in Freestyle Mode
Pie Wagon - Accumulate 30,000 Miles
Box Car - Accumulate 40,000 Miles
Scrapin' By -Accumulate 50,000 miles
Glide - Accumulate 75,000 Miles
Formula 2 - Win Exotica mode Mars track with Glide
Whiplash - Win Exotica Mode Mars Track with Formula 2
Rail - Win Exotica Mode Mars Track with Whiplash
Rocket - Accumulate 100,000 miles. Special note: This will unlock Formula 2 if not earned already with a lot of work and miles required to unlock the rest so you will likely want to stay in Exotica mode with formula 2 from this point.


00:00:00 Title and demo
---------Challenge Mode --------
00:01:56 Korea
00:10:30 Atlantis
00:19:55 Sahara
00:29:05 Hong Kong
00:38:40 Alaska
00:46:55 Vegas
00:54:50 India
01:03:15 Ireland
01:13:40 Holland
01:22:55 Amazon
01:32:45 Tibet
01:41:50 Mars
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01:43:05 Freestyle Mode
-------------Exotica Mode-------
02:19:18 Korea
02:21:45 Atlantis
02:23:55 Sahara
02:26:00 Hong Kong
02:28:20 Alaska
02:30:35 Vegas
02:32:55 India
02:34:58 Ireland
02:37:12 Holland
02:39:25 Amazon
02:41:20 Tibet
02:43:35 Mars
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02:48:25 Show Off Wacky Exotic Mode
02:51:14 Show Off Insane Exotic Mode
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02:54:00 Exotica Mode (Unlock Glide & Formula 2)
03:22:40 Exotica Mode (Unlock Whiplash)
03:51:16 Exotica Mode (Unlock Rail)
04:19:50 Exotica Mode (Show off Rocket)
04:45:08 Credits