Race Illegal: High Speed 3D, street racing for Windows Phone 8

Race Illegal: High Speed 3D

Race Illegal: Loftier Speed 3D is one of the more recent racing games available for Windows Phone 8. The game offers nice 3D graphics, several gaming modes and hopes to make full your need for speed.

Along with the multiple gaming modes, Race Illegal: High Speed 3D offers 20 racetracks to conquer and nine cars to choose from and customize. The game has had its fair share of success over on iOS and Android platforms and in taking Race Illegal: Loftier Speed 3D out for a test drive, the game comes across as having similar potential on the Windows Phone 8 platform.

Game Layout

The master menu for Race Illegal: High Speed 3D presents you lot with a Lazy Susan styled card with your main gaming options. Along with these options, you volition also find options to access the game's music settings, links to the game'due south Facebook and Twitter pages, along with a link to the About Screen from the principal card.

Race Illegal: High Speed 3D Main Menu

Quick note on the music settings, while you take the selection to set up the levels for music, sound effects and engine noise you lot also take the option to choose the mode of music played in the background. Music choices include light drum, electronic, acrid beats, rock and difficult stone. You tin can access these options from the main Options Menu too equally a music button off the gaming screen.

The Lazy Susan styled menu spins effectually and offers you access to the game's options, your achievements, access to more games from the developer and admission to the three gaming modes for Race Illegal: High Speed 3D.

Gaming options/settings include:

Game Options: Language selection and speed units
Controls: Here is where you lot tin choose your steering options (Accelerometer, tap screen or steering wheel)
Video Options: Turning on/off slow motion, vibrations and opponents information
Avatar: Race Illegal: High Speed 3D'due south racer profile allows yous to upload a photo that will be used as your avatar throughout the game and during online racing
Change Name: Hither is where you alter your role player name
Profile: This will nowadays you the option to reset your gaming progress

The three gaming modes for Race Illegal: High Speed 3D include a career fashion, quick race manner, and multiplayer manner. They break down equally follows.

Race Illegal: High Speed 3D Career Challenges

Career Mode: The Career Mode with Race Illegal: High Speed 3D has you competing across 20 tracks in an endeavour to get the top racer. You start your career out every bit a rookie and slowly work your manner up through the ranks. The outset few races get yous familiar with the car'due south controls and from there you face a wide range of opponents.

Race Illegal: High Speed 3D Quick Race Track Selection

Quick Race Way: As you would guess, this mode sends you right into a race without all the storyline distractions. Within this mode y'all have half dozen racing challenges that are progressively unlocked. You brainstorm simple with the challenge being to finish 1st in the race and progress to drift challenges, demolition derby challenges and more. You tin can choose your race track and world (progressively unlocked) as well every bit the number of opponents on the track prior to each race.

Race Illegal: High Speed 3D Multiplayer Mode

Multiplayer Mode: Multiplayer Fashion is an online race where y'all can host a game or join a game hosted by another Race Illegal: High Speed 3D gamer.

As you consummate races, you lot will earn prize money that tin be used in the Race Illegal: Loftier Speed 3D garage to upgrade your existing car or buy a new ride. In-app purchases are bachelor to buy more coins also equally remove the ad banners ($.99).

Racing Illegal: High Speed 3D Garage

Garage access is done through the racing carte on the Career Fashion (tire icon in the lesser corner) and prior to the Quick Race and Multiplayer Modes (no engine tuning in the garage for Quick Races).

Game Play

Game play with Race Illegal: Loftier Speed 3D isn't much different than any other racing game. Personally, I like the tilt controls for steering best but the tap controls (borer either side of the screen) wasn't that bad.

Race Illegal: High Speed 3D Racing Screen

Across the height of the gaming screen (from left to right) you will find a music selector push, your lap counter, race position, and your fourth dimension/impairment icon. Across the bottom of the screen (again, from left to right) you will find a rear view mirror, a pause button, a camera view button, a brake pedal and your speedometer.

Tap the rear view mirror and the screen view will modify to let you see who is on your tail. Swiping up at your speedometer volition actuate the nitrous booster with the booster level beingness illustrated past the flaming ring that appears just in a higher place your speedometer.

Race Illegal: High Speed 3D Damage

As y'all nil along the various city streets and hit things (oncoming traffic, light poles, trashcans, other racers, etc.) your car will accept on damage. Harm that will be indicated on your harm icon. If the impact is severe, the screen will plough dark red (simulating the concussion you've simply experienced?) for a short time that limits your visibility.

It does take a little time to get used to the control responses and don't be surprised if yous striking the wall a skilful flake while yous gauge this responsiveness. The first few lessons or challenges with the Career Mode serve as a tutorial and walk y'all through game play rather nicely. I would recommend going through these first few lessons before delving into the Quick Race or Multiplayer modes.

Overall Impression

I really wanted to like Race Illegal: High Speed 3D but I couldn't feel as though something was holding the game dorsum. Graphics were nice but lacked that 3D pop we come across with other racing games such equally Asphalt 7.

Race Illegal: High Speed 3D

The ad-supported version isn't terrible with ads showing up on menu pages and in transition between game play and menus. The game screen for races is ad-free, which is a rather nice thing, and gives you an united nations-obstructed view of game play. The multiplayer games are also a squeamish bear upon and gives Race Illegal: High Speed 3D a petty more than staying power. It is a nice break from racing the computer.

As far as stability goes, I did experience a few endless load screens that required me to get out the game and restart to clear. The frequency wasn't plenty to drive me to uninstall the game merely it was noticeable.

All in all, Race Illegal: High Speed 3D is a nice racing game for Windows Phone 8. I think if you add together a dash more popular to the graphics and tighten up the steering response, it could be a better game (that and fix the game load bugs).

Race Illegal: High Speed 3D is a complimentary, ad-supported game that is available for Windows Phone 8. Information technology is showing available from my Nokia Lumia 520 and you tin can find Race Illegal: High Speed 3D here in the Windows Phone Store.

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