You can drive over buttons which open walls you would otherwise crash into, drive on transparent glass paths overlooking the whole city and fellow racers. For one thing, the tracks are packed with secret roads and hard-to-reach pickups which means that you’re not only racing, you’re racing with a mad purpose! To go through the craziest, most dangerous roads, including roads that don’t even look like roads, when there’s a perfectly good track all laid out for you. Now there are many things about this game which make it pretty irresistible. Incidentally, I would never pick the Formula 1 car based on the strange logic that I already had an F1 game ( Super Monaco GP on the Genesis). Unfortunately, it’s not like the Need For Speed games where you can build your vehicle from the ground up, but you could specify how you wanted that car to drive at least. You could personalise the cars, to a certain extent. You could have slowly but surely unlocked those by completing races under a certain time, for example. Thinking about it now, it would have amazing to have lots and lots of track options like fire, earthquakes, tornadoes, raining frogs, Godzilla… you get the idea. Selecting a track was fun in itself as the game offered you various options to personalise your race from mirroring the track to adding more wind or fog for more of a challenge or simply a more atmospheric race. I had never heard of the “Rush” franchise, I just knew this particular game looked cool and was fun to play so I promptly purchased the full game.
My point still stands, though: Jeff spiders are bad news. Set in the utopian (yet bizarrely empty) Futurama-esque future of 2049, a group of people are racing an uneven selection of cars through the neon-lit streets of San Francisco and it is all kinds of awesome.īecause 75 space tarantulas, all called “Jeff,” have landed on the Golden Gate Bridge and are planning to take over the city UNLESS random cars seemingly driven by no-one mindlessly race along sinuous tracks as fast as possible. I became aware of San Francisco Rush 2049 through a demo which came with the Official Dreamcast Magazine, a demo I played to death.
I also played way too much Daytona USA for some reason. I wasn’t particularly a racing game fanatic growing up but I did have my favourites including Street Racer, Mario Kart and Out Run. As my Dreamcast slowly but surely nears towards its final breath (*sob*), I did manage to recently revisit one of my favourite games on the console.Ī racing game called San Francisco Rush 2049.
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