Disappointed in Outrun 2006 on Xbox (graphics)

SEGA is not SEGA ...not anymore

You' re right, it' s not SEGA, ...it' s ' SEGA SAMMY HOLDINGS INC' and SEGA' s acquisition by SAMMY is the reason for lower quality titles than they used to put out.

In a perfect world of mergers it would be ' Sega Namco'

Terry Bogard - currently the most Unhelpful member of the Kikizo forums.

(by the way, the first time you play the game it takes nearly a minute to load, I kid you not. Subsequent load times are shorter)

OK now go play a game or two of Halo 2. Now come back and play OutRun 2006. I bet it will take a minute or so to load again. Hell it takes Halo 2 nearly 5 minutes.

Ive played Outrun 2006 today, and let me tell u this.. its ALOT prettier than alot of my 360 games.. SEGA have that style i love.. the drawdistance and background for instance pisses all over burnout..

2006 is one of the best looking ' games' ive seen.

Burnout Pwns SEGA BS, sega is the WORST managed company of any in history, not only do they suck, but they can' t hold foreign markets, and can' t maintain dominance in the states. The reason why SEGA exists is timing. SEGA allowed Mortal Kombat' s Violence on their console, and this allowed sulking in bling, g! So now they gots lots and lots of money, honey. They be spendin' and offendin' us whit the sony shiznat, damn boi! Yeah, whatever. ZOMGZ FREE BEER. jk lol.

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ORIGINAL: Joe Redifer

(by the way, the first time you play the game it takes nearly a minute to load, I kid you not. Subsequent load times are shorter)

OK now go play a game or two of Halo 2. Now come back and play OutRun 2006. I bet it will take a minute or so to load again. Hell it takes Halo 2 nearly 5 minutes.

Fair enough - I haven' t played Halo 2 so I didn' t know that. It' s not exactly a deal breaker anyway as it' s only the first time.

ORIGINAL: f3hunter

Ive played Outrun 2006 today, and let me tell u this.. its ALOT prettier than alot of my 360 games.. SEGA have that style i love.. the drawdistance and background for instance pisses all over burnout..

2006 is one of the best looking ' games' ive seen.

Do you have Ridge Racer 6 cos I' m wondering how it compares to that? Someone on another forum said RR6 is miles better, but then the Eurogamer 9/10 review said OR2006 looks just as good. I think they' re fairly similar games too, with the drifting and the rival races, ie. start at the back and have to finish at/near the front by the end of the race.

It' s not exactly a deal breaker anyway as it' s only the first time.

You mean " the first time after playing another game that uses the hard drive cache" . It will do it again after you play other games. Not any other games, but other games that use the hard drive cache.

No I mean every time you play the game, the first race you play, it takes a minute to load it. If I switch off the Xbox, then switch it back on and play again, it will again take a minute.

This is a very minor thing and I' m not trying to make a big deal out of it, I just said it in passing really

Sega still rules in the arcades dude!

Sega still rules in the arcades dude!

Indeed, dude!

Terry Bogard - currently the most Unhelpful member of the Kikizo forums.

I noticed the water doesn' t look as good in OR2006 either, it looks flat and simple.

Compare these two screens, both off a CRT television. It looks a lot more noticeable when you play the game but you can still tell from the photos.


OutRun 2006


OutRun 2

you show the thing dirtydog. I agree with you

Do you have Ridge Racer 6 cos I' m wondering how it compares to that? Someone on another forum said RR6 is miles better, but then the Eurogamer 9/10 review said OR2006 looks just as good. I think they' re fairly similar games too, with the drifting and the rival races, ie. start at the back and have to finish at/near the front by the end of the race.

RR6 has good draw distance, but outruns is even better.

As for the rest ...Ok, lets put it this way..

the only thing RR6 had has over OR2006' s is the obvious higher Resolution and AA.. all the art direction, backgrounds, main cars, controls OR2006 takes quite easily.

those screenshots show that PS2 version I have has much less texture detail.

That' s good news - it means Xbox version is looking much better , but that gameplay ....why would they ruin the perfect gameplay?

SEGA

No I mean every time you play the game, the first race you play

That' s what you think you mean. But as you' ll see when you play other Xbox games that erase the hard drive cache, Outrun 2006 will need to re-copy it back to the HD, and you' ll end up waiting again. Happens with Halo 2 and others, it' ll happen with Outrun 2006, guaranteed.

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My 2 cents.

http://games.kikizo.com/reviews/xbox/outrun2006_coast2coast.asp

Sorry but i lost all faith in you guys after that sakaguchi interview.
No nobuo question,no thinking of your own as why the main character can' t die,when he already stated that you going to play some of his memory,then how can you die in a memory? its hsould have been obviously what he was meaning,sadly his english is almost as bad as mine.

ALso you guys never gaved me my avatar!!!!!

Even if you break 2 legs from a crab it still runs!
What you gotta do is find its weak spot and do massive damage at it.

Thanks for your 2 pounds (pence?). The game is supposedly going to cost $30 or so for the Xbox version in the US (that' s just over 15 British pounds by the current exchange rates) and that is a good price. I feel duty bound to buy it even if it doesn' t look quite as nice as the older version. The PSP to PS2 save feature is nice for those people. Now where is my Saturn version?

I paid £24.99 for it in the UK which I believe is the cheapest it' s sold for here at the moment.

The review above is fair, and I agree about the intro FMV, I also thought it was particularly poor - and also there is no attract mode using the game engine, as OutRun 2 had.

I feel my initial reaction to the game was overly harsh because of the graphical differences, and the different handling - in fact I have played it for several hours and I have had a real blast, I' m loving it - I' d say it' s more fun than OutRun 2, probably due to the lower difficulty level. Then again I' m only about 30% complete so that could change later I guess. Overall, although it could probably have been better in a few areas, it gets the thumbs up from me

One thing I don' t understand is the time trial mode. Maybe I' m being thick, but in the top right hand corner it says what your current lap time is. When you reach the end of the stage, it might say 54 seconds for you, and 55 for the ghost car, so you' ve beaten it by a second apparently. But then it comes up 1' 01, and tells you that' s your time, six seconds more than what the ' lap time' was. And in the high score chart, you' re second (with the 1' 01 time), and the top score is 55 seconds.

Is this a bug, or am I missing something?

ORIGINAL: QuezcatoL

Sorry but i lost all faith in you guys after that sakaguchi interview.
No nobuo question,no thinking of your own as why the main character can' t die,when he already stated that you going to play some of his memory,then how can you die in a memory? its hsould have been obviously what he was meaning,sadly his english is almost as bad as mine.

ALso you guys never gaved me my avatar!!!!!

We only got 15 mins with him and it was shared with a bunch of other retard sites. We did the best we could with what we had.

If you resend the avatar I' ll make sure it' s added.

We only got 15 mins with him and it was shared with a bunch of other retard sites.

LOLXorZ! That makes it sound like Kikizo is among the sites that are retarded. But since I' m not too terribly retarded I know what you mean.

Well kikizo can deliver great videos,thats why im a member and always will.
Its a site you rather stay on then on gamespot/ign when e3 comes.
How did i found kikizo.com?
People at teamxbox.com said kikizo was the leading site in videos,and had putted up a video with ed fries,and then i came O_o V

Even if you break 2 legs from a crab it still runs!
What you gotta do is find its weak spot and do massive damage at it.

Oh Snap! I gots laid. jk lol...

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i think the sp game looks better.
sure some of the textures are not as detailed as they were in the previous outrun but thats only really noticeable in the original tracks
the original outrun always looked kinda muted colourwise and rather washed out, on my tv at least, crt with rgb, whereas this game the colours are very bold and vibrant and i think the game sparkles
i think it looks fabolous
my gripe is with the surround sound, which seems to be mainly stereo on my setup, why doesnt the sound of overtaking them big lorrys and tankers rush from front to back, instead of just the front stereo speakers
some people have also commented when playing over LIVE that they dont get details like shooting stars on milky way stage and the waterfall isn' t animated, but on my xbox they are when playing on LIVE

Um. OUTRUN CAN SUX MY COX...

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Sites like IGN and Gamespot make you pay for a membership before you can access hi-res videos and yet Kikizo has BETTER video' s available to everybody and doesn' t even bother you with ad' s like those " retarded" sites.

The only thing i have noticed is that the news section is undated late. Not that i mind, ...it' s always nice to read it here.

What most people don' t seem to realise is that like newspapers are biased to specific political parties, the bigger (mutlti-platform) gaming websites are generally biased towards specific gaming companies. Kikizo as far as i can tell is unbiased, ...which is nice!

OUTRUN CAN SUX MY COX...

A bannable statement indeed.

Also a very retarded one :)

Has anyone else here got the game then?

heh, theres nothing funnier than looking underneath someones Name in a forum and seeing ' Banned' .. It must be so embarrassing for that person...


BTT..

IVe played both Xbox and PS2 versions and both are great, tho obviously PS2 suffers abit,.. IE Dual shock pads being too loose and abit rubbish really.. Slowdown and less nicer FX.. but still looks very decent!

I really need more info on the PC version tho! anyone here anything of late?

I' ve always thought the analog pads on the Sony dual shock were a bit too flimsy/loose/sensitive.