The game has zero licenses beyond the IHRA name, which means that all of the parts you'll buy have fake aftermarket names, and the cars you can buy look like knockoff versions of Challengers, Chargers, Camaros, Monte Carlos, and so on.
There's also some light tuning you can do, such as suspension stiffness and your fuel ratio, and you can also choose from a handful of paint designs and colors. The season mode focuses on a series of 12 bracketed events where you can earn not just cash, but points that go toward your overall position for the season, though if you go straight into one of the 12 season events with your stock car, you won't make it past the first qualifier.
Instead, you'll have to go and engage in single races, over and over again, in order to build up enough of a bankroll to get your car into serious competition shape. The fact that you have to go through a bunch of monotonous races for cash before you can think about going through the monotonous season races speaks to how poorly the season mode was laid out. The lackluster graphics and sound do little to improve what's already an underwhelming experience.
The cars themselves actually look like decent approximations of real hot rods, but everything else is just flat, barren, and ugly, which makes it kind of appalling that the game has trouble keeping a stable frame rate when all it's showing is two cars and maybe a dozen cardboard-cutout spectators.
The game uses some filtering effects to augment the frankly pathetic sensation of speed, though they kick in at specific intervals so bluntly that it almost feels like the graphics engine is shifting gears. Both the PS2 and Xbox versions are pretty unpleasant, though in their own special way--the PS2 version is grainier, while the Xbox version feels smoother, but more washed out. Regardless, both versions are saddled with lots of ridiculous load times.
The game can't even muster some decent noise for the cars, which are inappropriately subdued and often overwhelmed by the game's antiseptic heavy metal-inspired soundtrack, and you can forget about bells and whistles like track announcers. It can be tempting to forgive certain production value shortcomings when you're looking at a budget-priced game like IHRA Drag Racing: Sportsman Edition, but the whole of this game is so shallow and so unengaging, it doesn't warrant any such charity.
This is a dreary approximation that makes the genuinely exciting world of nitro-burnin' dragsters just look like a drag. IHRA Drag Racing: Sportsman Edition lets you to compete in sportsman and dragster racing classes in a single race or a event season. Upvote 1 Leave Blank. The Good Nitro-burnin' dragsters The Bad You spend more time setting up than racing No visceral thrill to the simplistic racing Graphics are flat and ugly with regular frame rate problems Season mode is poorly laid out Engine sounds are shamefully quiet and muddled.
About the Author. Ryan Davis. More GameSpot Reviews. Load Comments 0. Average Rating Rating s 5. However, in this game's case, going too far is its greatest strength, though perhaps its only one. You won't find car modifications like these in any other game. However, the real heart of the game is a deep and engrossing engine simulation. In the game's shop area, you'll build a custom drag racer out of either ready-made parts or your own custom designs.
You start with any one of the game's basic chassis, from a Chevy up to a Camaro, or any number of drag racer designs used in real-world competition. From here you can modify the chassis by adding weights to improve stability, adding wings to provide downforce, or even using wheelie bars if your front wheels just won't stay down when you're racing.
The engine customization goes even deeper. You can completely customize your engine geometry, including the number of cylinders, the bore diameter and stroke length of the cylinder, the number of intake and exhaust valves, the compression ratio, and the air induction, among many other settings.
As you are modifying your engine, a dyno graph showing your horsepower and torque specs is updated, letting you know how the changes you make affect your car's performance. The depth continues on through each component of the car's performance. You can select your gearbox, number of gears, and ratio for each. Suspension, tires, and even your drag chute can be customized to your own specifications. The interface for this is a bit clumsy--seeming almost as if it were originally from a PC game where you could click on fields and type in numbers--but it's still effective.
However, the biggest thing holding the game back is that you can make any modification to your car right off the bat--there's no monetary system in the game, you don't earn points, and you don't race for upgrade parts. You have just as much capability to build the ultimate racing machine at the beginning of the game as you do after emerging victorious from several seasons of racing. The only challenge in the game is poor engineering--over-revving a high-compression, large-bore engine can often result in a huge cloud of black smoke pouring from your car at the starting line, as you see your opponent race toward the checkered flag.
You can take your custom-built dragster out for a test run to see how it performs on the track before taking it head-to-head against another player or a computer-controlled opponent.
You can enter into a single race against an opponent, compete in a tournament-style event, or join in a season of tournament events over a number of different race courses. Just the act of competing in a race is a convoluted process, and most players will have to spend some time reading the manual before they win any races. You first need to "stage" your car.
Staging means you have to lock your car down to perform a burnout, bringing up the temperature of your tires to increase their grip. You then need to roll toward the starting line to the pre-stage line, wait for a light to illuminate, roll a few more feet forward to the stage line, and then wait for your opponent to do the same. If you fail to do any of this, you will be disqualified from the race.
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