Smashing Drive

by Namco

Product Features

• In this fast-paced action hit, you'll leave a path of destruction behind you as you take your customers to their destinations
• Find the most unlikely shortcuts, even if you have to crash or blast your way through, and run other cars off the road
• Pick up power-ups to help you along -- turbo boosts, buzzsaws, missiles, wings, a battering ram and more
• You can even use your claxon to cut through and maybe destroy traffic
• There will be other cabs looking to take your fare, so be sure and knock them off the road before they try anything funny

Product Details

• ASIN: B00005YVU4
• Media: Video Game
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #31,690 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Smashing Drive is a fast-paced action racer based on the Namco arcade hit. With numerous power-ups, including battering rams, turbo rockets, and buzz-saws, as well as countless pathways and shortcuts throughout the big city, getting from point A to point B is the most fun and excitement a cabbie has ever had behind the wheel.

Product Description

In Smashing Drive you play a hardcore cab driver looking to get his fare there as soon as possible, and eliminate some competition in the process! Play against a friend for some good-natured mayhem and destruction!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars smahing drive, June 8, 2002

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Kerrie Vyskocil "rjvgo" (Elkhorn, WI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Smashing Drive (Video Game)

I love driving games. I though this would be a great game, but it isn't. The idea of driving at great speeds and collecting powerups is not new, but this game does it no justice. The graphics are bad, they seem like a port of some old game that has been on the shelf for awhile, and released for the sake of another title for the xbox. Frame rate is good, and the car handles well, but the developers could have done so much better with the graphis. The music is annoying, and this game is a renter at best.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars An ARCADE port that is true to the original, November 1, 2004

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James J. Gerbino (Pensacola, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Smashing Drive (Video Game)

If you like the arcade version of Smashing Drive, this is the same thing. If you are expecting some sort of new content, new tracks, new music, etc... you will be dissappointed. It is a note perfect port and nothing more.

The hate filled blasts that serve for 'reviews' seem to be expecting a racing game, or a sim. It is was it is. A budget console port of an arcade hit. Take it at face value and have a good time. I still laugh out loud using the big sonic horn to blow up traffic and plow through the wreckage.

3.0 out of 5 stars Smashing good time, July 28, 2009

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cartoon starving (from illinois) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Smashing Drive (Video Game)

This game is fun, and has a great arcade feel, there are only two cons 1) the music does not change only one song during gameplay, but you can turn it off
and 2) it only has so many levels, with not that many goals to shoot for, so you beat the game pretty quickly.

all that aside, it is really fun to play,

the way to think of this game is it is basically, one of the big games you would have gotten on midway treasures 3, if it was from midway

so basically it is a small but really fun game, highly recommend you try it.