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Rapid Racer

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Initial release date
  
October 1997

Genre
  
Racing video game

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Publisher
  
Sony Interactive Entertainment

Platforms
  
PlayStation, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation Vita

Developers
  
SIE London Studio, Team Soho

Modes
  
Single-player video game, Multiplayer video game

Similar
  
Team Soho games, Racing video games

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Rapid Racer (Turbo Prop Racing in North America) is a racing video game released exclusively for the PlayStation. In the game, the player takes control of a motorboat and races around Six Different Tracks: Golden Sands, Wild Water Canyon, Glacier Bay, Bear Lake, Lost Valley, and Lava Trail. Eventually, all six tracks can be raced mirrored, as well as set at night time.

Contents

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By winning championships and completing bonus rounds (unlocked by five yellow icons during a race but first two day tracks), players can unlock them which they can use to either upgrade their boat or unlock a higher-powered one.

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The game's soundtrack was composed by Apollo Four Forty (Loudmouth in Turbo Prop Racing). The game's main theme "Carrera Rapida" by Apollo 440 was released as a single and on their 1997 album Electro Glide in Blue.

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Production

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Rapid Racer was significant in that it was one of the first PlayStation games to take full advantage of the DualShock controller; not only did the game allow steering with the analog sticks, but the gamepad also vibrated during a gameplay. The intensity of the vibrations also depended on what type of water the player was in; calm rapids meant low vibrations, while heavier rapids gave high vibrations.

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One of the game's biggest selling points was that it ran at 60 frames per second. However, in order for the game to run at that frame rate on the original PlayStation, track detail and textures had to be sacrificed. Additionally, the frame rate lowered to 30 frames per second during 2-player splitscreen.

After reaching a certain point in the game, players could unlock Fractal Generator. This feature allowed the player to select from a large number of tracks besides the normal six. Players could either allow the generator to randomly create a number (which corresponded to a certain track) or manually input their own. While this feature sounded like it gave a staggering amount of tracks, in reality all these randomly generated tracks were basically empty aside from water and walls and as such, many of the tracks tended to run together.

Reception

The game received an average score of 74.11% at GameRankings, based on an aggregate of 11 reviews.

References

Rapid Racer Wikipedia


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