The drifting, no doubt included to spice up some of the races, is actually nothing more than a painful sidetrack you occasionally have to indulge in to meet your race targets. Though the game's street edge means civilian traffic features on both sides of the road, each hit slowing you down and filling your damage metre, it doesn't really add any sense of fear to proceeding.Ĭoming top of the pack usually revolves around the fairly sterile idea of playing it safe until your boost bar builds up (which it does, regardless of your actions), before laying it down with the '5' key and risking oncoming traffic to get a clear run at your rivals. If anything, this is a step back from some of the more rampant alternatives (Gameloft's Ferrari GT Evolution, complete with its bends and crooks, comes to mind) already on the market. The problem is, while the structure and the dressing of High Speed 3D might be expansive and fresh, the actual races that make up gameplay aren't. The game flips you from championship contests to the street races and back again, each test acting as a chapter, coming with a whole heap of plot to push you forward. The plot forms the thread that links all of these challenges and, on the whole, is an involving one, charging you with reclaiming the streets for the Lightning gang after your brother - a street racing stalwart - is injured in a race. Both involve bolstering the street presence of the Lightning gang, each task thrown at you gradually schooling you through each element of racing as well as moving the story forward.Ĭoming first isn't always the sole goal, for instance, with High Speed's inventive races employing targets such as finishing without any damage to your car or drifting through each course, Tokyo style. High Speed's career mode is effectively split in two, with both championship tests and the more offbeat street racing offering a sense of progression absent from many a racer. In terms of the mobile, this is a new kind of racing sim. Playing on the box at the time was one of the Fast and Furious movies - a tale of a street racer trying to make his name in amongst the gangs on the road flashing across my LCD screen - and there I was, on my wee phone, doing the exact same thing.Īdding some semblance of narrative isn't all that common in mobile racers, but High Speed 3D attempts to go further than the average title, giving glossy 3D visuals the kind of foundations players of console outings Need for Speed or Midnight Club might be more in tune with. ![]() It has to be said, my first play-through of HeroCraft's bold new racer, High Speed 3D, was a rather surreal experience.
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