The game itself wasn't terrible, but if the game's title, Street Racer, didn't necessarily imply a mashup of Street Fighter II and Speed Racer, the game's logo design certainly did:
Also note that the competitor featured here, Helmut von Pointenegger, borrows a page from Wario's book of taunts: "I'm gonna vin!"
I guess if you can't be Mario Kart, Street Fighter or Speed Racer, you might as well borrow a little from all three and hope you can confuse a few consumers into shelling out for your "original IP."
Go Street Racer! Go!
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I think this is more a copy of Power Drift than anything else.
ReplyDeleteThe selectable drivers' personalities are reminiscent of Power Drift, but they're a fairly generic stereotypes-of-all-nations collection. The split-screen multiplayer and power-ups seem more directly inspired by Mario Kart. But it wouldn't be surprising in this case to find all kinds of echoes of better-known games -- it seems to have "borrowed" liberally!
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