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  • GamePro – January 1998

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    Source: GamePro – January 1998

    GamePro was never my favorite video gaming magazine but there’s no doubt it was one of the most popular next to EGM. Sadly, both are now gone. The January 1998 issue includes:

    Special Features

    • Castlevania 64: Interview with the Vampire Maker – The hunt for Dracula continues! The Konami crew in Japan reveals inside info on this highly anticipated title.
    • 1997: The Year of Gaming Dangerously – The GamePros list their favorite games of the year!
    • Spotlight On Road Rash 3D – Here’s a first look at the motorcycle madness that’s about to make its return to the PlayStation.

    SWATPro Strategy Section

    • MDK PlayStation ProStrategy Guide – Blast your way through MDK from beginning to end with the help of this walk-through. Plus, we give you the location of all the secret areas!
    • Fighter’s Edge: Mortal Kombat 4 (Arcade) – Be the master bone-crusher who devastates the kompetition with this komplete move list – more fatalities and combos than you can shake a spinal cord at!
    • S.W.A.T.Pro – Tips and tricks for Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero, MDK, Street Fighter EX Plus, Treasures of the Deep, Resident Evil: Director’s Cut, Nuclear Strike, and more!

    ProReviews

    • PC GamePro
    • Nintendo 64
    • PlayStation
    • Saturn
    • Genesis
    • Sports Pages
    • Role-Player’s Realm

    Departments

    • Head-2-Head – 1998 is going to be a great year for GamePros!
    • The Mail
    • Art Attack
    • Buyers Beware – The consumer’s hotline!
    • ProNews – Nintendo plans to drop its prices on Diddy Kong Racing and Bomberman 64
    • NetPro – Tanarus!
    • Overseas Prospects – The new Cobra arcade board makes its debut.
    • Sneak Previews – WWF Warzone, Diablo, Spawn: The Eternal, and more!
    • PC GamePro – Riven and Quake II!
    • Hot at the Arcades – Check out San Francisco Rush the Rock: Alcatraz Edition and off Road Challenge!

    …and more!


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  • Rage Racer (PlayStation)

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    Advertisement for Rage Racer by Namco for the PlayStation from the June 1997 issue of GamePro.

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    Source: GamePro – Issue 105 – June 1997

    The Ridge Racer game lineage is somewhat long and complicated. Rage Racer was the third game in the series to appear on the PlayStation. However, only the original Ridge Racer was an arcade conversion. Other arcade sequels were not ported to the PlayStation but other unique titles in the series were created instead. Rage Racer is one of these and was released in 1996 in Japan and in 1997 in most of the rest of the world.

    Rage Racer is most like Rave Racer in terms of arcade games. It introduced a few significant features to the series that would be used in future iterations. First, it featured cusomizable cars. Second, it added a retries rule. Finally, in introduced a new mascot in Reiko Nagase. Otherwise, it was very similar to previous games in the series. Graphics were updated to be darker and more realistic but otherwise game play was much the same.

    For any fan of the Ridge Racer Series, this game would be a must have. However, while reviews were positive they were not spectacular. The main reason reviews weren’t even better was because this game simply didn’t add much to the series. In fact, most games in the series tended to be only minor upgrades to the previous game. They were more like revisions than true sequels. The biggest complaint is probably the lack of tracks. There are only four tracks in Rage Racer and two of those appear in previous games.

    As for myself, I tend to prefer games that are either more or less realistic that the Ridge Racer series. Give me Mario Kart and F-Zero or on the other end games like Gran Turismo. The Ridge Racer series is fun but I get bored with them pretty quickly. However, if you are a fan of this series or games like this (e.g. maybe Daytona USA) then you should definitely be playing this one too. Like I said, there’s nothing wrong with it and it is after all really just an improved (even if only slightly) Ridge Racer. If you do want to give it a try, you’ll have to track down an original copy for your PlayStation or try it via emulation. I am not aware of Rage Racer having any more recent releases on other platforms.

    The advertisement above comes from the June 1997 issue of GamePro.


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