![]() ![]() In the first race, you get to ride with the best car in the game complete with the best weapon. I knew I was going to have an issue with One Hell Of A Ride when it pulled one of my least favourite gaming tropes. ![]() The single player experience is the entirety of this game. There’s no leader boards or time trial ghosts either. There’s no split screen here, or online multiplayer. You can use the weapons to shoot out your competition as you ride through the one and only mode in One Hell of A Ride – a single player campaign. The kicker here, and why the game wants to compare itself to the likes of Vigilante 8, is that your cars have weapons. Start at the finish line, do as many laps as necessary – ranging from 1 to 6 – and finish before anyone else. It looks and plays like it too.īeing a racing game, you can probably guess the objective of the game. While the premise is similar, this game is far more like SEGA Rally from the 90’s. It even partially name drops these games in the store description. One Hell Of A Ride is an arcade racer that would like you to believe it’s in the same vein as Carmageddon or Twisted Metal. Played without them, it’s a grating slog. In ‘One Hell Of A Ride’, they improve the game to such a point that it feels like the game was designed to be played with them on. The difference with those games is that the cheats were an optional extra to already excellent games. I have many fond memories of spawning in tanks in GTA III, just for the sake of it, or going dncornholio in Duken Nukem 3D. Pop in a code on the menu screen and you can skip over most of the grinding, the difficulty and many the game’s issues. A quick Google later and I discover One Hell Of A Ride has a cheat mode. Am I bad at this game? Am I missing something? Was there a mechanic that I wasn’t aware of that would make these races easier? No. Having battled through hard fought races and lost many times along that road, I felt confused. I noticed the rarity of one of the trophies that unlocked. I’d spent a good 4 hours with the game, grinding out wins against a spirited AI, before I noticed something. I was going to tell you about where this game succeeds and the very many places it could have been improved. I’d reviewed it very critically, for sure, but it was a review written in good faith. The original version of my review for ‘One Hell Of A Ride’ was very different to the one you’re reading now. A poorly designed arcade racing game, One Hell Of A Ride is only enjoyable when you cheat. ![]()
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