Hoversprint
Hoversprint, developed by Exentrix and published by Codemasters in 1992.
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Player's Review
"Crank it around corners, crash through the chicanes and shoot down the straights in this mega sim from the 21st century. Zip-skids, retro thrusters and turbo boosts - TOTAL CONTROL 3D RACING"
A 3D raceway that kind of looks like a mash of stun runner and hard driving. There are 20 tracks to race on played through four divisions of eight races. You start in division four and need to win the division overall to move up. You get to choose from four cars each with different strengths from the auto gear beginner to expert manual gear but well armoured vehicle. In each race you face of against three other racers. Collisions can cause damage which slows you down. As you complete each lap you have the opportunity to refuel and repair.
The games premiss is you riding around in Hovercars which immediately brings up images of Wipeout and this game with some work could have been that, but as it is, it is nowhere near the mark. As you hover, you can cut corners or pull off sweet drifts around corners. However, corner cutting slows you down and weirdly hovering and turning somehow produces annoying tyre screeching that is almost constant but that is the least of it's problems. The framerate is low and it can be difficult to see on coming corners and the controls can feel overly responsive instantly stalling you when breaking or swinging you around too little or too far.
The longplay was recorded with the WHDLoad version in the hope of some slight fps increase running on a stock A1200 with a little fastmem. Any issues noted couldbe the fault of the whd. The game requires the disc to be write enabled as it updates your profile each race.
At the start of the game you can continue or reset a profile using your initials. This was fine for the first race bye the game soon forgot all that and went back to the default name from the second race. Before the race you can choose a car but it seems it doesnt remember what you take as after the race it shows that you used the normal car and you will use that by default in the next race unless you change it again. After the musical intro there's not much left to the presentation of the game. it's just race after race and nothing much else to look forward to.
Overall, this is a game that looks the part but under delivers making it overall disappointing as you can see potential for it to be something more. The ending is a singular screen showing who won the top division and nothing more. very underwhelming for the effort. Even for a budget game, it is a disappointing overall experience.
00:00:00 Intro
00:03:20 Division 4
00:27:05 Division 3
00:49:15 Division 2
01:12:38 Division 1
A 3D raceway that kind of looks like a mash of stun runner and hard driving. There are 20 tracks to race on played through four divisions of eight races. You start in division four and need to win the division overall to move up. You get to choose from four cars each with different strengths from the auto gear beginner to expert manual gear but well armoured vehicle. In each race you face of against three other racers. Collisions can cause damage which slows you down. As you complete each lap you have the opportunity to refuel and repair.
The games premiss is you riding around in Hovercars which immediately brings up images of Wipeout and this game with some work could have been that, but as it is, it is nowhere near the mark. As you hover, you can cut corners or pull off sweet drifts around corners. However, corner cutting slows you down and weirdly hovering and turning somehow produces annoying tyre screeching that is almost constant but that is the least of it's problems. The framerate is low and it can be difficult to see on coming corners and the controls can feel overly responsive instantly stalling you when breaking or swinging you around too little or too far.
The longplay was recorded with the WHDLoad version in the hope of some slight fps increase running on a stock A1200 with a little fastmem. Any issues noted couldbe the fault of the whd. The game requires the disc to be write enabled as it updates your profile each race.
At the start of the game you can continue or reset a profile using your initials. This was fine for the first race bye the game soon forgot all that and went back to the default name from the second race. Before the race you can choose a car but it seems it doesnt remember what you take as after the race it shows that you used the normal car and you will use that by default in the next race unless you change it again. After the musical intro there's not much left to the presentation of the game. it's just race after race and nothing much else to look forward to.
Overall, this is a game that looks the part but under delivers making it overall disappointing as you can see potential for it to be something more. The ending is a singular screen showing who won the top division and nothing more. very underwhelming for the effort. Even for a budget game, it is a disappointing overall experience.
00:00:00 Intro
00:03:20 Division 4
00:27:05 Division 3
00:49:15 Division 2
01:12:38 Division 1
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