Smashing into walls, which will happen frequently at first, will lead to car damage and require a pit stop lest you risk falling too far behind.
You won’t be power sliding around corners but the more punishing aspects of sim games are mostly absent. In terms of handling Daytona sits in the middle between the drifting of most popular arcade games and more complex simulation racers. Some would say it’s kind of cheating but considering you’ll have to master the courses available to receive them you more than deserve a little compensation for your trouble. These new cars all feature some mechanic that will benefit you such as higher speed but low grip, better performance on grass or averting slowdown when crashing into walls. The Saturn mode offers 2 more cars and another 6 unlockables based on your performance. You have the choice of 2 cars that offer manual and automatic transmission with some differences in terms of handling and top speed. Although it didn’t affect Japan as much in the US Daytona and Virtua Fighter’s graphics seemed less than adequate in the face of Battle Arena Toshinden and Ridge Racer, a fact that I’m sure played a role in the PlayStation’s dominance in the US.ĭaytona USA was indicative of racing games of the time in terms of content. The botched graphics were also a sticking point when compared to the PlayStation version of Ridge Racer which by all accounts was near perfect. Unfortunately Daytona suffered heavily missing most of the arcade game’s graphical flourishes which also affected the gameplay. While both games were rushed to meet the system’s release date Virtua Fighter managed to be a more than worthy port outside of a few niggling issues. With the impending launch of the Saturn in Japan Daytona and Virtua Fighter were viewed as the system’s killer apps.
Beyond the graphics the tight controls and intricate course design made the game a sublime experience for anyone lucky enough to have sampled it. When compared to Virtua Racing which was released the year prior it might as well have come from another planet.
Released in arcades worldwide in 1994 Daytona USA was a graphical powerhouse, with a full 60 fps and fully texture mapped graphics for a level of detail unheard of for the time. It would be a tall order for any system to faithfully replicate the game’s graphics but even when taking that into consideration the Saturn version is a massive disappointment. Even considering Sega’s long history in the arcade Daytona USA caused quite a stir as the first game to use Sega’s new Model 2 arcade board. As the 16-bit era waned and magazines were flooded with all kinds of technical details of the upcoming consoles the dream of owning arcade perfect ports of the most famous quarter crunchers was starting to become a reality. There’s no polite way to say it: the Saturn version of Daytona USA is one of the most disappointing home console ports of all time.
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