Highway Racer v1.0 Retail MSGPDA

The first thing one can say about Highway Racer is that the game’s graphics ROCK. Mr. Goodliving sets a new standard on how the Java games should look with this amazingly beautiful piece of eye-candy.

Highway Racer is all about winning: just like any similar game, you are taken into a dozen of racing tracks in Germany, Japan and Australia. Each country presents two tracks on different cities (Bonn, Berlin, Kyoto, Tokyo, Melbourne and Sydney), so there will be options enough for a few hours of gameplay. On each country, you drive a different bike with unique speed, acceleration and tires stats - hanging from a small Yamaha motorbike on Germany (the easier level) to a fast Kawasaki racing bike in Australia. Each race includes a qualifying lap. After that, you are taken into race against 4 other drivers.

Ingame graphics are a little simpler, specially when it comes to track and obstacles details – they should have been more detailed, so the game would look better during the race, but that’s not really a big issue.

Game controls are its worst point, and the one that keeps it from being a hit: amazingly, all the bike’s controls are made on the numeric keypad: that means you can’t use device’s Keypad to accelerate or turn the bike - making it sooooooo very hard to control you’ll probably play it only once or twice.

All in all, Highway Racer is “simple” eye-candy for racing-style gamers. It clearly shows that there’s a lot of space for beautiful games in the mobiles world – and that bad gameplay can turn a “good thing” into just “another thing”.

Supported handsets:
Nokia Series 60: 3650, 7650, N-gage, N-Gage-QD, 6600, 6620, 6670, 7610, 6260,6630
Sony Ericsson: K700, K700i, Z1010

Highway Racer v1.0 Retail MSGPDA.zip (118 KB)
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