Track Review – Technicians’ Off-Road

• Track: Technicians’ Off-Road (direct download) 

• Author: Djoszee

• Type: Race

• Environment: Stadium
• Length: 1 min
• Mood: Sunset
• Custom content: No

First Impression

Technical track with nice off-road parts. Sounds simple, but this doesn’t look simple at all…

Track Design

The design is very good, with a great technical feeling and nice off-road parts (both grass and dirt), combined with great speed, making up most of the track. Some good jumps exist as well, but no real stunts (which is not at all a bad thing).

It’s a very smooth track but which requires some skill (or many attempts) to get it just perfect. It’s not at all a difficult track as such, but be prepared to crash a few times. If it wasn’t for the fact that this track is likely to cause some lag, I would say it’s a good online track.

The crashing doesn’t only depend on the skills of the driver though. Unfortunately, a lot of the signs point just straight forward when they should be pointing to one side or the other. This, however, is due to a bug, not the author himself.

Hint: Don’t follow the signs!

Additionally, the design of the track is quite “crowded” providing a nice feeling for the track. A lot of the parts cross each other, and there’s a lot of scenery making the design look and feel so much better…

Rating: 8.5

Scenery

An excellent scenery, and as just mentioned, it brings out that “crowded” feeling. A lot of catles and little details make the track look extra cool, and there’s not a single “boring” point. I like this a lot!

Rating: 9.5

Media Tracker

Intro: Short but OK. Only gives a view of the track from near the ground, so you don’t really get an overview of the entire track, but it looks good and shows at least some of the track. A bit more length and more camera angles would help to make this a better intro though.

In-Game: None.

Outro: Good outro with good camera angles. Has some isues with going through scenery though, but noting that important.

Rating: 8.0

Originality

There’s nothing truly new, but the “crowdedness” and good design is something I’d like to see more of in other tracks as well.

Rating: 5.0

Fun Factor

Fast, technical and with great off-road parts. There isn’t anything new or extremely “cool”, but the overall design and the great scenery is enough to make this track a true joy to play!

Rating: 8.5

Summary

The strength of this track is the combination of technical and speed, and the great use of off-road parts. The design is a joy both by feeling and visually, and the scenery adds a lot to the track – a sort of “crowded” feeling, in fact. There are no stunts or such, but none are really needed to make this a good track.

The MT work is good too, but not perfect, and the originality could have been better as well, but other than that, a really great track!

Final Rating: 8.5 (very good)

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DISCUSSION:

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