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OutRun 2006 Coast 2 Coast
May 7th
One day I will turn on my PSP and I will do the OutRun 2 15-stage continuous route.
It will happen.
One day.
Just not today.
OutRun 2006 Coast 2 Coast
Apr 15th
Still trying the OutRun 2 continuous route on the PSP.
Still failing.
OutRun 2006 Coast 2 Coast
Apr 13th
Bloody hell. That fifteen stage continuous stuff is knackering. Absolutely exhausting.
Tried the OutRun 2 version on the PSP again. Got to stage thirteen, which is my best ever go, but still not good enough. Can I blame the framrate in Paris, please?
OutRun 2006 Coast 2 Coast
Apr 12th
Just a quick race online to check out my port forwarding.
Seems to work, but leaping online after over a week without playing maybe wasn’t the best idea. I came third out of four people. Well, I was in third when the race ended. I was right near the finish line, too.
Oooooooooh, I’m riled.
OutRun 2006 Coast 2 Coast
Apr 3rd
I’m rubbish.
I still can’t complete the 15-stage OutRun 2 continuous route on the PSP. Not even close.
OutRun 2006 Coast 2 Coast
Apr 3rd
Just spent a good couple of hours with the Xbox version. Finished of the Novice and Intermediate Flagman missions with AAA rankings.
It’s just a superb game. How does someone go about making a game in which a learned skill feels so natural?
I earned enough OutRun miles to buy the OutRun class 328 GTS. The speedometer says it’s only abotu 20km/h faster than the standard version, but it feels an awful lot faster.
OutRun 2006 Coast 2 Coast
Apr 2nd
I just ran out of time with my car actually sitting on the chequered line.
Why does this game treat me so badly when I love it so much?
OutRun 2006 Coast 2 Coast
Apr 1st
Leading easily until the very last corner of a five-stage race and then crashing and coming sixth is very, very annoying.
On any console, I imagine, but in this case on the PSP.
OutRun 2006 Coast 2 Coast
Mar 31st
Got online with the PSP version earlier. Had a lot of waiting for people to finish a long race only to get kicked out before they did, but I did manage to get one race in. It was good fun and I very nearly won, but a crash between my main rival and me right at the end let the guy in third come through for a win. I felt a bit bad because everyone else was using novice cars and I was in my Testarossa, but I’m not sure what the etiquette is there.
And I’ve tried the Xbox version now.
The bad first… The new grainy look doesn’t agree with my LCD TV at all. Xbox stuff generally looks worse than anything else. The original OutRun 2 was an exception, but this new version looks pretty bad. Water Falls suffers most, looking like the singal’s coming from the other side of the English channel via a broken set-top ariel. Or something. Need perfect 360 compatibility now. I might even buy a rip-off slightly-enhanced 360 port, but this isn’t EA we’re dealing with.
Some of the sound’s a bit odd, too, especially the passing car noises.
Okay, that’s the bad. The good is everything else. it handles perfectly, it plays perfectly. On my first run down the SP easy route I beat my best PSP time by about ten seconds, using a less good car. And I’ve managed to unlock the 328 GTS, which is as lovely as it was in OutRun 2. I put it on for a quick five minute check befiore bed and ended up with forty five minutes of drive time under my belt.
OutRun 2006 Coast 2 Coast
Mar 31st
Not only did I play it on the bus this morning, but I also played it at home before I left for work, which is pretty much unheard of.
