0 to Z of Playstation 1 Games - All Star Racing






     
All Star Racing is a racing game developed Mud Duck Productions the studio specialised in budget titles during it’s five years doing business, and this game was one of the first the studio released. The game released concurrently on the 6th of October 2002 in Europe and North America. The games was published by Midas in Europe while the North American release was handled by ZeniMax.



The game features four different modes for the player to experience, Supercar Challenge, Classic Cars, Stockcar Frenzy and GT Racer, each of these modes has a choice between three cars. The game features cars such as the Pina 238, Fenzo 500 and the Manelli 748 as well as other made up vehicles.



Like vehicles there are 12 tracks to choose from again like the vehicles three to each mode, during the course of a race the player faces a total of 5 opponents, the game has three difficulty settings easy, medium and hard, the player can also change the total number of laps for a race with it ranging from 3 to 15.



A budget racing title no story or story mode present in the game.



Critic reviews for this late budget title are impossible to find so we head over to GameFAQs for their user ratings, where we find this game has not been favourably received, with an average rating of just 1.77/5. A total of 13 users have rated this game, stating with the best 1 user rated the game a 3.5/5, another couple of users gave the game a solid 3/5.

Getting to the lower end of the rating scale 1 user thought this game was fairly average giving the game 2.5/5, beyond this point we find the majority of the user rating for this game, a couple giving the game a 2/5, with three more giving the game a disappointing 1.5/5.

That was not the lowest the rating would get for this game however, one user giving the game only a 1/5 however three users could only give the game a truly dismal 0.5/5. Overall a handful of users enjoyed this budget title however the majority really did not.

Onto the games difficulty, this category was rated by 11 users with over half rating this game as a simple title, a couple of users rated the game as having just the right difficulty with another couple rating the game as tough. The remaining user rated the difficulty as easy.

The games lifespan is up next with a small number of users rating this category just the 7 with a decent spread between them ranging from 1 hour up to 12 hours, with the majority rating the latter. With the games lifespan averaging out at around the 7 hours mark.



This is the part of 0 to Z where is visit five online retailers and see what the availability of the title is, and what price you would be looking at if you wanted to pick this title up, the sites that I will be using for this are Amazon.com,  eStarland.com, retrogames.co.uk and Gamedude.com I know the last one is very location specific, but from a podcast I listen to I’ve heard they have a huge stock of older games, I will also be including Ebay.com as well

So lets get down to business with Gamedude, where if you are looking to trade in your copy of Boxing, don’t expect anything much for it with a trade in price of 25 cents. Likewise if you are looking to pick up a copy it can be done pretty cheaply with Gamedude asking $2 for a copy.

Moving on to Retrogames.co.uk who sadly don’t stock a copy of the game, so we quickly move on to eStarland.com who do have a copy of the game available, a used complete copy can be picked up for $4.50. They also offer a trade in service for this game with up to $1.50 being paid for a copy of the game.

Amazon.com has a plentiful supply of the North American version of the game with a used very good quality copy of the game, with free shipping priced at $3.99, however for just 1 cent more at $4 you can pick up a like new copy of the game. A brand new copy of the game is also available for the same price.

Heading over to the co.uk version of Amazon, where copies of the European version of the game are harder to come by but still well priced, with a used very good condition copy of the game priced at £2.68, which comes to £4.71 once shipping is added in.

A couple of new copies are available as well, one that is fulfilled by Amazon is priced at £6.99 and comes with free shipping on orders over £20. While the other copy is the better deal priced at £5.99 and comes with free shipping as well.

Ebay.com has a disc only copy of the game available for $1.18 with a $1.77 shipping fee, for a more complete copy of the game priced are slightly more expensive than Amazon, even with the free international shipping with prices starting at $6.10 up to about $10 this is for both the European and North American versions, as well as new copies which also fall into this price range.









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P J Gibbon

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