Ford Mustang: The Legend Lives for Xbox, rating: 62%
Affordably priced, the venerated Ford Mustang's latest namesake game otherwise misfires all the way down the track--suffering from sloppy physics, plodding navigation, dated graphics, and an uninspiring "career" mode.
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The AI for Ford Mustang is not one of the best out there, and the catch-up feature, which is intended to help cars in lower positions to “catch up” to that car in 1st place, is a tad too overdone, whereby the car which was in last place a few seconds ago, can overtake you by a mile whenever you rub a wall or slam into one of the traffic cars, in the city ...
Ford Mustang: The Legend Lives review:
Easy to learn, easy to play, and easy to afford, Ford Mustang: The Legend Lives is a barely tolerable, exceedingly temporary fix for the financially restricted racing beginner. The vast majority of console drivers, however, are advised to put the pedal to the metal in the opposite direction.
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Tons of racing games come out every year, many of which go unnoticed like thieves and ninjas in the night. While games like Gran Turismo, Project Gotham Racing, and a slew of import tuner offerings stir up the pot, like Juiced, SRS, and even Enthusia, its many that seem to remain as elusive and held back as the rest. Falling in this category, youll find the Ford racing games being brought to you by the ever-so-friendly guys at 2K Games. Specifically, this year marks the 40th anniversary of the car to start it all: the Ford Mustang. This sweet piece of machinery is considered by many to be the greatest legacy of American muscle you can conjure on the streets. To commemorate the event, Eutechnyx gives us Ford Mustang: The Legend Lives, and while the game lacks real depth like other software mentioned earlier, it remains to be a budget title that is well worth a few spins around the block.
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But if you have fifteen dollars burning a hole in your pocket, and you remember the early days of 3D racing games, you might want to try Ford Mustang on for size. Its shallow, its hollow, but it is a whole lot of fun.And its only fifteen bucks for heavens sake!
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