Saturday, December 4, 2010

Hands-on Preview: nail'd

http://diehardgamefan.com/2010/11/25/hands-on-preview-naild-2/

The game offers a large amount of tournaments to go through to unlock everything, as well as a few non-tournament related options, such as time attack mode, quick event (single race) mode, and custom tournament mode where you can make tournaments against the CPU, so you've got options for playing solo or testing new rides. The major appeal of the game outside of the tournaments, however, is the online play. You can choose whether to jump into a normal simple race, go for a Stunt Challenge where the player with the most points at the end of the race wins, or Free Race and try to earn the best possible time. You can pick from various maps and modifiers to customize the race to your liking, and by all indications, the game supports up to twelve players in a single race. I had a chance to play online with a couple folks from Deep Silver, and to say that the online play was even more frantic than the offline play would be an understatement. The game was also quite stable so far, and looks like it handles online play rather well. http://naildbiter.com/MXjW2