Thursday, April 12, 2007

Full Auto reveiw

Your car shakes as bullets ping and bounce off it. A beeping sound alerts you to the fact that your back armor just blew off. You pull a trigger on you dashboard and a mine drops out of your car, immediately getting rolled over by another racer. Perfect, you think. The mine detonates and destroys the car. You look back to see the ensuing destruction, but an explosion hits close by your car, sending it off course. You hit a large rock at 70 miles. Your car is sent flying 100 feet in the air, and other racers zip past you, and you open up with two 50.caliber machine guns mounted on your hood. The bullets find their target and rip another racers car to shreds. Then you car starts flipping in mid-air. You land on your side and keep sliding, the grating of the metal producing an awful sound. Your car comes to a stop on its side. Another car smashes into yours, wrecking it and killing you.

All this and more can happen in Full Auto, an over the top car combat game where you must race to be the first to cross the finish line with your car in one peice. The actuaal gameplay is like what I described earlier, but with one big twist: the ability to unwreck stuff. Lets say you crash and burn. A quick tap of the right bumper (this game is for the 360) brings you a couple of seconds back to before the crash. Add this to the aforementioned car combat, and you have a winner. Well unless you manage to screw it up like Sega did.

To many times you will be cruising along and an explosion sends you flying killing you. You unwreck it, but some guy shreds you with bullets. Again you unwreck it, but someone rams you and kills you. It seems that once you get killed, but unwreck it, the game concentrates all its efforts on you and kills you. It's ridiculous.

And I really wanted to tweak my ride. As it is, you can choose your car and weapons, killing almot all customization. But besides all this, Full Auto is still extremely fun. You can destroy anything you want Including buildings, it has great graphics, and some extreme gameplay. So this game is definetly fun, just rent it before you buy it.

Overall 7.5 out of 10
note: This game is extremely fun and you should give it a test drive, but some features are broken and frusttraing, which is why it only gets an average score.

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