S.C.A.R.S.

by Ubisoft

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• ASIN: B0000296ZO
• Item Weight: 8 ounces
• Media: Game Cartridge
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #30,060 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

GameSpot Review

You may have heard of Ubi Soft's S.C.A.R.S (or Super Computer Animal Racing Simulation) before, as it came out for the Sony PlayStation several months back. A futuristic racing game that melded the gameplay concepts of Psygnosis' Wipeout XL and Nintendo's Super Mario Kart together, S.C.A.R.S. was a surprisingly fun combat racer on that system, silly back story (virtual reality racing in animal-themed cars circa the year 3000) aside. Unfortunately, the Nintendo 64 version is another matter entirely. The game offers five animal cars (mammoth, lion, rhino, shark, and mantis) at its outset, each of them varying in degrees of speed, armor, grip, and weapons. If you want to go for speed, you use the speedy mantis or shark, while if you'd rather shoot your way through the competition, there's the heavily armored and weaponed mammoth or rhino. The title's grand prix mode is composed of three main cups, good for at least several races each, and a customizable cup that can be set for up to eight races. The challenge mode has you race against one of four extra rides (scorpion, cheetah, cobra, and panther) that become playable only once you've beaten them, which is far from easy - they don't call it challenge mode for nothing. The earlier reference to Wipeout XL pertains mostly to S.C.A.R.S.' futuristic theme and color palette, while the gameplay has more in common with Super Mario Kart, with all the power-sliding around corners that goes on within. The power-up and weapon systems are similar to both, with numerous and varied icon-based items spread all over the tracks for you to pick up. The standard missiles, shields, and turbos are present, with the more imaginative magnet (freezes drivers in place for a few grueling seconds), two kinds of energy barriers that have to be leaped over, and a cool ticking bomb that gets passed back and forth from racer to racer like a hot potato. Visually, S.C.A.R.S. on the N64 is a great letdown. The PlayStation version had fantastic lighting effects, sharp colors, and a good feeling of speed, but on the N64, S.C.A.R.S. is blurry, not quite as fast, and has much more overt draw-in (even more so in the multiplayer mode). The music has also taken a major hit, replacing fairly listenable tracks with "noodley"-sounding sub-techno. Even with all these plusses turning up minused, the game's multiplayer mode could've helped it catch back up by including additional modes (such as a Mario Kart 64-style deathmatch), but alas, you just get to race up to three other human players in smaller, graphically less-impressive windows. The PlayStation version of S.C.A.R.S. wasn't incredibly deep but offered a lot of good, dumb, driving/shooting fun and was at least worth checking out, but there really isn't much reason to look this title up over the rapidly growing number of futuristic racers on the N64.--Joe Fielder--Copyright © 1998 GameSpot Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part in any form or medium without express written permission of GameSpot is prohibited.

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28 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A cool game gone bad!, February 8, 2000

By A Customer

= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: S.C.A.R.S. (Game Cartridge)

When I first saw the somewhat stupid ads for this game, I thought it looked pretty good anyway, so I got it. At first the game seemed fun, but after a while, I felt like it was a let down. The competition is very tough, and you can't go out side of the edges of the road, like in Crusin' USA or World. (Not to mean that Crusin'World is not a great game. Buy it!) The weapons are weak, cornering is tough, and the 4-player mode leaves out tons of detail! Although it can be fun, and some of my friends bought it right away after playing mine, I recomend that you buy this game... if you like frustration!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Game very chalenging, January 1, 2002

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"big--ben" (Colonia, NJ USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: S.C.A.R.S. (Game Cartridge)

This game is very chanlanging and fun. At first you might not like it but as you gain more cars it gets harder and alot more chlanging. Anyone looking fo and action/adventure game this is for you. You can shoot up the players with lasers, get forse fields, shoot traps and get turbo boosts. Its lots of fun. I highly recomend this game for anyone looking for an out of this world asing game.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Average Game With Its Ups And Downs, October 31, 2003

A Kid's Review

This review is from: S.C.A.R.S. (Game Cartridge)

Really this game isn't all that bad, it infact is a nice game with neat graphics, interesting levels and may i say very interesting cars. The sound to me on this game is great, each level has its own music, the type of music which is perfect for racing to and the controls are easy to learn however, my only complaint is that this game lacks in replay value, like i kept playing this game over and over again until i finally managed to beat this somewhat tough game, but then once i finnished i never even really played this game much, you just get bored of it. I think the game could have featured some special tracks which you could get by completing challenges, and i think this game could have worked more on the fun factor, maybe add more interesting little games for multiplayer. Lowly recomend you buy this, highly recomend you rent this.