DriveClub review round-up

ADDZ Oct 10, 2014

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    DriveClub review round-up

    What critics think of Sony's long-delayed PS4 racer


    DriveClub reviews have started to go live to coincide with the game's arrival this week.

    Following a lengthy delay from the PS4 launch window, the DriveClub release date is today, October 7 in North America, October 8 in Europe and October 10 in the UK.

    CVG's DriveClub review labelled the title "stunning to behold, but held back by a lack of variety".

    To give you a taste of what other critics thought, we've rounded up a number of review scores below, along with short excerpts from the verdicts.

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    CVG: 8/10 - This lack of variety is a shame given that the quality of the handling and visuals makes DriveClub an absolute pleasure when it comes to that moment-to-moment experience of throwing a car around a corner at breakneck speeds.

    GamesRadar: 4/5 - While too simplified to be a sim and too serious to be an arcade racer, Driveclub's online integration, beautiful environments and accessible handling make for a great new-gen racing package.

    GameSpot: 5/10 - Driveclub is the fear of risks and the embrace of the ordinary. It's basic racing in basic packaging, beautiful and inert and full of attractive cars. It is not, however, an argument for a new generation of driving, given how it fails to exceed the standards of the old one.

    Eurogamer: 6/10 - The problem with DriveClub is that it's just competent. You'll drive some fast cars in some arresting environments. You might even have fun, in between getting clobbered with penalties. But there's no romance to it. No passion.

    IGN: 7.9/10 - Driveclub is the best-looking racing game I've ever seen on a console, but down deep it's a more modest, conventional arcade racer than the sprawling, open-world types we commonly see today.

    Polygon: 7.5/10 - DriveClub doesn't have any one element that makes it an incredible game or a huge leap forward for the racing genre, but it makes some smart choices underneath top-of-the-line presentation.

    Joystiq: 3/5 - Driveclub is a well-made, sometimes irritating juxtaposition of the old and new. The career mode is old-fashioned and its AI is hopelessly ignorant, but the graphics and competitive jabs online feel perfectly fit for 2014.

    VideoGamer: 8/10 - It's a game whose appeal lives and dies in its online time trials and sensational visuals, and whose sense of one-upmanship and competition is leaps above the rest of the pack.

    Destructoid: 7.5/10 - Driveclub is fast and easy to get into, nice to look at, and it has a lot going on in the background to keep you connected and competitive with your club members and other individuals. But that doesn't change the issues in the foreground.

    Digital Spy: 4/5 - It is a visually impressive game with a clean, straightforward progression system, interesting courses and enough user-friendly social features to keep clubs entertained for the foreseeable future.

    SixthAxis: 8/10 - The overarching goals soon start to peel away, and you're left with the purity of competing against the times and records of friends and rivals, the stunning scenery and the joy of driving cars absolutely on the limit.

    Game Informer: 7.75/10 - It captures the spur of competitive racing, but this is due more to the fact that its racing fundamentals (which are more sim than arcade) give it a good foundation rather than some groundbreaking feature set. Drive it fast and drive it hard, but don't expect a miracle.

    GameTrailers: 8.6/10 - While it's not as broad in scope as some of its contemporaries, we aren't finding ourselves getting bored of Driveclub. On the contrary, the more time we invest, the more we just want to keep playing.

    Metro: 5/10 - A game that should probably have been cancelled rather than delayed, with its complete absence of personality or new ideas.
     
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    wow :O lots of low scores there :O looks like they messed up big time :lol:
     
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    What's worse is that the servers are offline and your data won't be fully saved, no multilayer...
     
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    :wtf: what was the point in the delay then :lol: ,sounds liked they made more problems with the delay instead of actually improving it,how in the hell do you not have a functioning save capability in a big,hyped up game like this lol :facepalm:
     
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    No multilayer ? Really ? Shocking !!
     
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    There is when the servers are up but that's not often at the moment lol
     
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    For a min then i thought you was saying there is no multilayer full stop. lol
     
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    There is a multilayer that has a weird event count down like a sign up sort of thing

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    I was so hyped for this game. Disappointment of the year for me. I agree with metro review! They should have canceled this game. Driving sucks, graphics are not that special. Can't even connect to the servers. All the talk about the dynamic weather and they don't even add it at launch
     

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