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Speed Punks
"It's another great reason to stick two fingers up at your friends who own an N64 !"
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Developer  Fun Com Game Type  Racer
Distributor  Sony Review Date  Apr 00
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Setting the Scene:
 
      In Speed Punks six insane children break out of the schoolyard to tear up the roads in their own super-powered racing karts. In a greedy race for victory, these Speed Punks use all manner of tricks, power-ups and short cuts to cheat their way to the finish.

Sound and Vision:
 
      The quality and style of the introductory movie sequence offers an immediate impression of just how much money has been ploughed into the overall development of the game. In this instance it rates alongside the classic fully rendered mini-movies of Resident Evil 2 and Tekken. Sure it's different, but as you watch it you can see that Sony have spared no expense in making this game as slick as possible.

The in-game graphics are equally impressive. Right from the interactive menus, which are brilliantly arranged and feature all of the 3D characters from the game playing in their club house, to the levels themselves which are some of the most colourful and bright ever seen on our machine.

The quality of the programming is very evident when you notice how smoothly each track moves, considering all of the extra non-significant details that are scattered everywhere.

The in-game tunes are typically bland for a racing game and although well produced, bright and chirpy, it won't be long before you jump into the options screen to turn them off - for fear of being driven insane!

Each of the racing characters has their own personalised range of comments which they shout out when overtaking or attacking other racers, while the crowd will cheer or jeer your progress throughout each race.
 
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