SPEED RACER SHOCKWAVE FULL GAME MOVIE
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Hold the controller on its side and steer, tilting left and right as you would in Excite Truck or Mario Kart Wii. You control your vehicle (from a selection of more than a dozen) with the WIi remote. The racing fundamentals powering Speed Racer are better than anticipated, too.

SPEED RACER SHOCKWAVE FULL GAME 480P

Naturally, everything also runs 480p and 16:9 widescreen mode, always beneficial for those of you with HDTVs. The end result is a Wii racer that moves along at an unexpectedly quick pace in the realm of the WipEout series and even approaches F-Zero GX's lightning-fast performance here and there (although the framerate is not as smooth as Nintendo's title). Not only is the exaggerated, cartoonish presentation of the film translated in full, right down to the outlandish color schemes, but the sense of speed has come over unharmed, too.

SPEED RACER SHOCKWAVE FULL GAME MOVIE

The studio is very capable, as is evidenced by the fact that Racer really nails the look and speed of its movie counterpart, sporting a roster of incredibly unpredictable tracks complete with loop-de-loops, corkscrews, jumps and competitions with nearly 20 vehicles zipping along at more than 300 miles per hour. Speed Racer: The Videogame comes to Wii from Sidhe Interactive, the same team behind the good PlayStation Network game GripShift.

It's better than expected, but not perfect thanks to some remaining issues related to driver AI and a repetitious selection of courses. (A PS2 build will arrive later this year.) Movie-to-videogame projects are seldom any good and in contrast usually offensively bad, but Wii's Speed Racer actually defies the odds for an end experience that captures the style and intensity of the movie and slaps it all between some fun gameplay mechanics. Interactive has simultaneously commissioned the real thing, namely videogame takes on the Racer franchise for both Wii and DS. (There's a story in there somewhere, too.) The film's visual presentation is so saturated with blinding colors and rendered backdrops that movie critics have relentlessly called it tantamount to a silver screen videogame and so it should come as no surprise at all that Warner Bros. The movie, from the famed directors of The Matrix trilogy, features just as many seizure-inducing flashing psychedelic pastels as it does death-defying jumps, outrageous car drifting and, inevitably, explosive crashes. Whether you love or hate the look of the Wachowski brothers latest film, Speed Racer, you have to admit that it's certainly got style.

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