

Everything is pre-rendered, from the game table to the video, which appears in four shades of orange. Graphics There is not much that can be said here. It's best to just fill your pockets with quarters and head to the nearby arcade, because the action there is a great deal better. Where's the charm that's in great pinball games like Indiana Jones, Addams Family, and Super Mario Bros? Irregardless of your top score at the end, Big Race USA has trouble claiming gamers for future visits. Try as you may, it's going to be a hard trip to fall in love for more than about 30 measly minutes.

It tells you your score and provides other information throughout the game. When you make a specific shot, it plays a video and says in big letters what is happening. This is the display which tells you what's going on.
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Like other pinball games, Big Race USA has a dot matrix bar located in the upper area of the TV screen (it may be moved, according to your particular tastes). The taxi duel is about the same, except if you make a shot twice consecutively, you'll take the lead. This has several options for gaming, including the city challenge, in which you light yellow and green shots to travel faster, which also causes your opponent to move at a slower pace. Only then may you hook up the link cable and enjoy what is to be enjoyed of the head-to-head mode. On top of that, you must each own your own copy Big Race USA. But how does this sound: In order to play with another person, you and he must both own your own PlayStation's. Want to play with a friend? Oh ho, my friends, it is definitely possible. If you complete the big race, deliver all of your passengers, complete all of the speedway challenges, and destroy the roadblocks, you'll earn $100,000 and be able to compete in the "really big race". If you're skillful enough to survive the long voyage from one edge of the United States to another, you'll win. The more your ball hits it, the faster you go. If you wish to pick up your speed, shoot the taxi cab. Each time you make a shot, the distance to the next area is reduced. You slowly travel from state-to-state, racing from New York to San Francisco. The main game takes place in a "big race". It's a shame they don't sell Buddy Jesus dolls. Simply fire the ball into the left orbit to go shopping with the cash you've earned. Kind of sounds like Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash, which is a comic shop owned by the big-shot director himself, Kevin Smith. After this, deliver passengers to earn cash, and receive jackpots by accomplishing other tasks. To enter the passenger frenzy, lock two to four balls in the taxi cab. To get the speedway frenzy, send the ball into the lit left orbit and hit the red shots to earn bonus jackpots.

If you shoot all of the white shots on the board and hit the scoop once more, you will "hit the road". To engage in a city mode, simply shoot the police car scoop. Empire tries to accommodate for the lack of variety by adding several different scenarios a player may encounter. You can change the slope of the view if you wish, which affects the speed of the ball, but it doesn't add much of a spin to the excitement. Like the Pro Pinball games, it has only one table around which everything revolves. Do I really need to spell it out? It's pretty simple.īig Race USA is much too small of a game. When you do this, you rack up your score. Send it into ramps, hit it into special holes, and pummel it into all sorts of other places. Each time the pretty, silver, shiny ball comes into proximity with them, you slap it by hitting buttons, thus sending it flying into the air. You've got two main flippers located at the bottom center of the screen.
