I've been playing the Demos on the October Edition of OPM...
L.A. Rush isn't looking to good... Plays more like the Cruisin Series to be honest. Not Like USA the good one more like world which wasn't anywhere near as good. The Cinema Jumps suck. The crashes are the worst though, or lack of them. There seems to be an exact speed limit for when you crash or you lose all forward momentum. Either way you are screwed.
It happens in all racing games, moving along and BAM you're stock still. You laugh it off and curse as you frantically try to remember how to use the reverse button. Now imagine that happening five or more times per race. Not just walls though this also happens in headons. Other car goes flying and you just sit there. If you do actually manage to crash you are treated to an unskippable 10 second cinema scene, 4 of which involve standing stock still.
When You finally manage to get your car a foot off the ground (much harder than it should be in a rush game) you are treated to a weird camera angle of your car flying through the air. Not that fun the first time, certainly not cool when you repeat the course. Hopefully you will be able to turn it off.
Hopefully this will fixed before they go gold but I doubt it since the release date is so close.
Burnout Revenge felt even more like Sanfrancisco Rush. It was amazingly fun and I'll have to pick it up on the 13.
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