Kinect, which made the original game quietly notorious, has taken a hike this time, and Joy Ride is no longer content to secretly play itself while you wiggle your arms around in front of the TV living what the Soap Opera Digest would probably refer to as a miserable lie.Īll this bullet-pointing and box ticking doesn't matter quite as much as it should, though, because Joy Ride's Championship mode, while fearsomely inclusive, still isn't that good. It's also available in four-player split-screen and (rather laggy) eight-player online, and you can go back through all of the courses - some of which I'm pretty sure have been imported from the original Joy Ride, a Kinect launch game - and merrily time trial your brains out.Ĭrucially, all of this is enjoyed with a control pad in your hands. It has unlockable cars, customisable paint jobs, standard kart-racer weaponry, a drift system, a stunt system, boost meters, destructible environments and ten tracks littered with alternate routes to seek out. Championship Series is positively brimming with features. The side that isn't much fun has a name, and that name is Championship Series.

It's weighted down on the side that isn't much fun. That makes Joy Ride a rather uneven prospect: it's weighted down on its worst side. Sadly, Microsoft spent most of its time and effort fleshing out the wrong one. The second is patchy but quietly promising. The first of these games, see, is fully-realised but bland. That's true, just about, even if it isn't necessarily good news. If you were in marketing, you might say that Joy Ride Turbo is two games in one.

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