Sideswiped
- Buy up to 11 different vehicles, from sports cars, to a bulldozer, or the mother of them all: the Armored Truck
- Race in 5 different locations from New York to Las Vegas, or battle demolition derby stylishness in the Arena
- Go for the high score by earning destructive combos that set off a chain of explosions while crashing into your opponents
- Play 2-4 mulitplayer via wireless play or upload and check high scores using the Nintendo Wi-Fi connection
- Experience a slew of different modes per location: Destruction, Crash Race, Time Attack, Normal Race, Bomb, and Bowling Event
Product Description
Buckle up! It’s guaranteed to be a bumpy ride. Sideswiped is an all new arcade stylishness racing game for the DS. Go city to city earning cash for causing destruction and mayhem to your opponents and anything that gets in your way. Race down the streets earning points by crashing into your opponents and causing the most amount of hurt!
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Years ago, some developer tried to shoehorn the Burnout franchise into a game for the Nintendo DS. It was terrible. The makers of Sideswiped wisely chose a far more simplistic approach, better suited to the platform, while maintaining enough similarities to satisfy the appetites of those of us who delight in vehicular-based carnage. One of the benefits of intentionally effective within the constraints of the hardware is that the framerate is charming and the alacrity high (unlike in Burnout where you feel like your most alacrity is around 40MPH), except for those occasions where practically everything onscreen is exploding. During these brief moments, there are significant slowdowns. This doesn’t occur often enough to bother me much, and I’m one of those “framerate is life” people. Another knock against the game is that the scoring system seems completely arbitrary during those missions where the objective is to cause a specific amount of hurt. Vehicle handling is excellent, and the graphics are impressive considering, with white smoke emanating from your car when you use the e-brake (this smoke appears proper, no irresolute as you might expect), sparks flying, shadows that properly shift in relation to the light fund, and incremental hurt to your vehicle. Explosions but, which are very plentiful, do appear to be unadorned sprites. The physics are as far from realistic as you can get concerning collisions with other vehicles, which might annoy some people. You have to go into Sideswiped with the right mindset. It’s all just a bit of mindless fun. Certainly worth the asking price.
Rating: 5 / 5
You know how in some racing sports meeting you get so fed up with the other cars on the track that you just wanna ram into them and knock them out of the race, well that is the concept behind this racing game with thrills, spills, explosions and fun. At first play I thought it was a small slow, but as you progress and win cash, you can upgrade your car, and buy new ones. Ranging from small speedy sport cars, to vintage cruisers, up to heavy machinery, the fun just doesn’t stop in side swiped.
The game play is splendid, the response is wonderful, and the amount of missions is huge. Races can be anything from 1 on 1 racing to 8 cars, but it’s not just about getting to the end line (well, there is those missions) but sometimes it’s a matter of taking out all the other cars, crashing into cars to send them flying so they explode and take out other cars and obstacles; ruin a specific car; play pass the bomb and so much more. And it’s not just track racing either, there is also demolition derby’s and a cool small game where you have to jump from trampoline to trampoline collecting balloons, and although you may reflect WTF? reading that, I assure you this is not a Mario stylishness kids game. It’s just a cool small mini game to mix things up after destroying other cars and objects for so long.
Different cars/automobiles have different abilities, your sporty small cars are very quick and are splendid for a coarse that is a race to the end, but they are very light, so they do not smash into other cars too well to take them out, that’s where your larger heavier trucks are needed to cause havoc on the track and ruin no matter what gets in there way, but they are not as quick… but, it doesn’t mean they are slow either, as this is full on action that is honest, and fun. There is even at least one hidden vehicle that i know of you can unlock by completing all the missions criteria, which also opens up a few new tracks, I reflect they are there to test your new vehicle out, and also unlocks a mini game you will have to find out for yourself what it is.
This is my largest recommendation to anyone looking for a racing game on the DS. It $#!%S all over sports meeting like Need For Alacrity, Asphalt Urban GT, Ridge Racer etc.. this is the game to have for all action racing sports meeting.
Rating: 5 / 5
I have a 9 year ancient son who likes a excellent demo derby, and he likes this game. He recently went on a hockey trip, and his friends wouldn’t stop playing it either. It’s a fun game for the boys (or girls) who like to crash!
Rating: 5 / 5