Customer Reviews

Full Auto

5 star:		(7)
4 star:		(17)
3 star:		(7)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

Sega's Full Auto for the Xbox 360 is a racer that will never be mistaken for a Gran Turismo simulator-clone. Full Auto has more in common with Criterion's Burnout racing series. What Full Auto does to distinguish itself from Burnout is the fact that each vehicle is armed to the teeth with all sorts of weaponry. I see this Sega arcade racer as the offspring of a marriage between Burnout and the Twisted Metal series.

The game is easy to pick up and play and get into. In fact, this is one of its advantages over other racers in that the racing physics involve in forgiving. The goal of Full Auto is not to show how well the game can simulate racing on the console, but to immerse the player in road rage-inducing mayhem. Everything about Full Auto is gearing towards a more arcade-type game. The driving controls are very simple. The game makes very good use of all the face buttons, bumpers and triggers on the 360 controller.

The gameplay is all about full auto destruction and the developers really spent alot of time making sure that everything on the screen is destructible. Whatever you can see and aim at can be destroyed either by running over and into it or by using your vehicle's choice of weaponry. One thing I've had alot of fun pulling off is jumping off the crest of a downslope on a track and at the same time launching off a few missiles at the top floors of a building at the bottom of said downslope. By the time my car lands from its jump the building I shot my missiles at are crumbling down to its foundation and taking out any rival racers that were ahead of me.

The one new innovation in gameplay that Full Auto has is the ability to rewind time back a few seconds if one gets totalled or makes the wrong turn. This going back in time part of the gameplay is helpful but not always available. Only by causing destruction on everything around you can you fill the gauge meter enough to make the option available. But with Full Auto that is easy enough to accomplish. It's a nifty trick and when used properly can help the player learn just how to make a certain sharp turn on the course without losing too much speed or learn which side track and ramps are best in overtaking a lead car.

The graphics in Full Auto is not as photorealistic as the ones in the 360's Project Gotham Racing 3, but what it lacks in breathtaking beauty it has in the amount of destructive particles and items that fill up the screen. The processing power of the 360 seemed to have been utilized in making the game's environment fully destructible while doing just enough to make the car models just slighty better than the previous generation of racers. The sound effects are great when heard through a surround sound system. Every roar and rumble of the cars' engines are distinct, but its in the weapons fire and explosions that surround sound really shines.

If I have any complaints about Full Auto its that the game on multiplayer doesn't allow for the use of the time-rewind option. This makes multiplayer a more conservative side of the game's fun. There's less reckless abandonment type of racing in multiplayer than there is when playing the single-player mode. The game also doesn't add anything else to the racing genre that Twisted Metal and Burnout hasn't already brought to fore. Full Auto did marry the those two games' best features together and pulls it off well enough. For those on a budget I would recommend this fun arcade-racer only as a rental. Rent it out and give it a spin to see if its to their liking. Those who want another racer for their 360 and can afford it then I recommend this game as a buy. It's a fun, no-nonsense game that is just a few things short of being great.

Full Auto on the Xbox 360 is a thrilling combat racing game. The explosions are cool and the handling tight.

The car physics makes everything feel weightless, and the weapons are fun to use.

The storyline is very thin And what story there is doesn't add anything meaningful to the game. The career mode takes you from one series to the next, and each series has a number of different events in it. The main focus of the game is racing around in cars and shoot everything that moves. You can fire two weapons. You select your weapons individually prior to starting the race and unlock more as you go. In addition, at your disposal is a speed boost and "unwreck," which is a button that lets you rewind time when things go wrong.

The graphics are first rate and I enjoyed racing and killing. The game has some slow down but not too much.

Overall, it's a great action title that's a good combo of two genre's: racing and shooting.

Full Auto was HUGELY anticipated before it came out, but it has gotten pretty poor reviews ( between 6s and 7s ). It is a good game, but there are several reasons why it's not as good as games like Burnout.

Graphics: 8/10. The cars look great, and when you're using turbo the blur looks good, and the destruction looks good, but there are occasional slowdowns in framerate when there is a lot going on. There are better looking 360 games out there.

Sound: 7.5/10. The cars and crashes sound good, but the music is pretty annoying and there is nothing above average about any of the sound in Full Auto.

Control: 7.5/10. It's kind of hard to control this game, especially on 1 player. You have to concentrate on when to get ready to emergency brake into a turn, aim your weapons, shoot your weapons, when to use your turbo, where there are mines on the road, and more. After awhile, you'll get used to it, though.

Fun: 7.5/10. Overall, Full Auto could be better. It's career mode leaves something to be desired; it's extremely short. It will take you no more than 8 hours to beat the game, and it really is for the most part to get gold medals. This game is for people of any age to beat; it's that easy. You'll have all the cars ( except one ) after playing 40% through career mode. Multiplayer is fun, but there is no "rewind" mode, so it seems like a different game. The Xbox Live is fun, though, but not much different. My advice: I highly recommend you rent this game, but I really don't think anyone should buy it.

7.7/10

This game is fun really and destructable, this game is a real fast breakdown i mean when you play this game you don't want to stop cause one it's great with awsome grapic's, two in 1player mode you can rewind thats the unique thing about this game you can pause fast foward or rewind, okay but really you can rewind but only in 1player mode, in rewind you can change your way in your driveing like when you hit a car and your car blows up you can rewind and make it look like it did'nt happen and the stages are awsome with relistic background and destruction, so this game is fun.

Nothing can touch this. It instantly became my favorite 360 game.

While I am not a racing purist, I enjoy playing most racing games on the Xbox and Xbox 360 and, as of exactly a week after this product launched, I completed the entire Full Auto Career mode.

If you've heard the term "Run & Gun" applied to shooter games where you simply race around a level and shoot at everything, then you'll recognize this game as a "Run & Race" style game. There's no plot-line to the game, no cut scenes with dialog to provide a story or characters, you are simply dropped into a level and start shooting.

Sadly too, the levels you're dropped into have very little variety. Although there is the occasional shortcut, this is nothing like the RUSH series of arcade racer games. And, despite the fact that this is a destruction game, there are only 3 different sets of weapons, each with three "levels" of damage and functionality.

However, for everything one that it lacks, Full Auto also delivers in other deparments! The game has incredible surround sound, and you'll often find yourself physically ducking machine gun fire as you play the game. The career mode has 87 different races in 17 categories, which provides some variety to make up for the lack of level design creativity. In addition, each race offers 3 awards including unlocking cars, paintjobs and "skins" for the vehicles. Finally, the game has 50 different "achievements" to earn Xbox 360 gamerpoints in the game, and although it appears as if they're easy to earn (when you start playing, you'll get quite a few) earning all of them is quite a challenge, and the game includes online ranking objectives.

If you've already finished Need For Speed, Project Gotham and Ridge Racer, on your Xbox 360 you should certainly play this game to get a little more racing variety in your video game diet. Just realize you're not playing a racing sim, but rather an arcade-style racer with a combat component. The game has some rough edges but should be applauded for the much-needed variety it brings to the 360!

This game is really fun for all you shoot-em-up fans, except it's with CARS!

Some details
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* Stunning Graphics.
* Wide choice of vehicles and guns.
* Very nice stress reliever.
* Good career mode.

Long story short - Buy this game

I had this game for the 360 & I am telling you that this game is the best racing game I have ever played!
You drive & blow up other cars, which is so awesome!!
If you like action & racing, then you cant get any better!

This game is best of both worlds. Racing and Shooting. It has all the features of GT and NFS but it also brings in the heavy weapons to make the race even better. Great Game

This has got to be the most fun I have ever had playing a video game.