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OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast (PSP)
Jul 6th
Mainly time trials round Ice Scape in the OutRun-class Enzo. I just can’t get it right.
OutRun 2006: Coast 2 Coast (PSP)
Jul 4th
Two years on and it’s still a stupid name for a game. However, it’s also still a great game. I put it on for a quick go before playing the main evening feast, Disgaea, and ended up playing for most of the evening. Still can’t do the SP 15-stage continuous route, but that’s just because I’m rubbish. I tried that a few times, tried to impress Clarissa and failed, did some Time Trials, etc. There’s just so much game here.
OutRun 2006 Coast 2 Coast (PSP)
Feb 15th
Nope, I can’t do the OutRun 2 SP 15-stage event. I almost always get to the bit of inbetween track just before the Milky Way stage. The stars appear, the time runs out.
I’m just not very good.
OutRun 2006 Coast 2 Coast (PSP)
Feb 14th
Hooray!
I’ve finally completed the 15-stage OutRun 2 route after many, many tries.
Did it with about five seconds to spare in the OutRun class Testarossa in the end.
It feels good.
OutRun 2006 Coast 2 Coast (PSP)
Feb 9th
So, I went and spent a huge amount of money on an OutRun class Enzo.
I don’t like it. It doesn’t accelerate and it steers like a cow. Its top speed is meant to be a lot more than the Testarossa I’ve been driving, but I haven’t noticed that.
I still haven’t finished the 15-stage continuous run through either the OutRun 2 or OutRun 2 SP stages.
OutRun 2006 Coast 2 Coast (PSP)
Feb 6th
Phew. I spent ages tonight trying to fill in a space on the OutRun 2 scoreboard. I’d not got a high score for the hardest route and the default ‘SEGA 500000′ was annoying me deeply. Somehow, I managed to finish about eight times with scores under 500,000 before finally cracking it. No idea what was going on there.
Also, I managed to break the game at one point by crashing at an odd angle, which resulted in the game showing me several frames of my car jumping to seemingly random points on the track before it reset me a little further on from where I’d crashed.
I didn’t explain that very well, did I?
OutRun 2006 Coast 2 Coast (PSP)
Feb 4th
No, I’m not doing any better in the OutRun class car. It’s a lot faster and the game can’t keep up with it. At high speeds the framerate really drops and when things get hairy it’s possible to cross the entire width of the road between frames.
How the game remains so much fun despite this fairly major problem I don’t know.
OutRun 2006 Coast 2 Coast (PSP)
Feb 4th
I may not be able to ride a bike in real life, but I can drive a car. (As long as it’s an automatic – yes, in many ways I am utterly pathetic.) OutRun 2006 isn’t much like driving a real car. That surge of joy, freedom and control you get for about twelve seconds in the average three hour drive through Britain is present a lot more often in OutRun. It’s not there all the time – especially in the PSP version, which is slightly hampered by the analogue nub and a dodgy framerate – but it’s still great, great fun and when the drifting is going right and you make a few turns in a row there’s not a driving game in the world that can touch it.
I’ve still not been able to finish the OutRun 2 15-stage continuous mode, but I’ve done some Heart Attack mode and unlocked an OutRun class car now, so I might be able to do it soon. Maybe.
OutRun 2006 Coast 2 Coast (XBOX)
Oct 6th
A quick run through. The 328 GTS is twitchier than I remember, but I completed the SP tracks on the easiest route, so I was happy.
