Reviews
Review by Raphie on 09 Jan 2013 (Rating: 1)
The third in the Out Run series...and it's even worse that the first two combined! How do you screw up Out Run three times on the trot??
The first two lacked the real feel of a proper racing game especially compared to the likes of WEC Le Mans and even Chevy Chase, Out Run Europa lacks absolutely everything! There's no proper feel, no proper look and no proper enjoyment, the entire game from start to finish is a complete and total snorefest.
Had this been a normal game with an alternate title then it wouldn't be such a terrible thing but because it bears the Out Run name following up two disappointing arcade ports and turning out to be even worse makes this more upsetting than it is.
Out Run's legacy in gaming history is cememted with grace, its history on the Spectrum though is largely forgetable, especially with games like Out Run Europa.
Once, twice, three times a turd.
Review by ron on 02 Apr 2016 (Rating: 1)
Utter trash. One wonders how it got decent reviews - perhaps the reviewers didn't play it?
Review by YOR on 17 Nov 2017 (Rating: 1)
This is just an abomination of a game. Out Run and Turbo Out Run weren't great games but at least they weren't unbelievably shit unlike this game. For this to even bear the Out Run name is an insult to the franchise. And magazine reviews overhyped the hell out of this complete with fake screenshots with colour on them compared to the colourless crap we got instead, though you can't view magazine reviews on WoS anymore so you'll just have to take my word for it instead. The first two, whilst not great, at least are playable, this is not in any way. This is one of the worst games ever let alone on the Spectrum.
1991 US Gold (UK)
by Ian Morrison, Alan Laird, Jonathan Dean and Daren White
If both previous games were not faithful enough to the fast playing pace the original arcade versions had, at least they were playable, and if not the best in the genre they were suitable for it's purpose.
This third offering is a turd in a pool, still smelling. Any Spectrum begginer who got this game as is first game, not nly must have hated it but also thought the Speccy was a shitty machine.
