Top Gear review - Super Nintendo

Super NES speed freaks who've conquered the likes of F-Zero and F1 Exhaust Heat will doubtless be soiling their underwear in excitement when they plug in Top Gear.

Top Gear offers the usual blend of top-speed thrills 'n' spills as you race through seven different countries, each with their own range of dangerous tracks to master. But whereas previous Super NES games have restricted the fun to just one player. Top Gear enables two-players to battle it out in an all-or-nothing bid for glory!

Do you reckon you have the driving mettle of a Mansell? Or is he sluggish speed of a shambling Skoda the best you can achieve? Check out Top Gear and see for yourself!

What the Mean Machines staff thought

When you play it on your own, Top Gear is a challenging and enjoyable racing game with plenty on offer to keep you occupied. With two players, though, it really comes into its own and provides some of the best simultaneous head-to-head driving action I've experienced on console. The sheer amount of cars and the twisting course make for intense competition, with much sideswiping, cutting up and ramming in evidence! It's truly brilliant fun - we even had a load of greebos in from the Motorcycle News magazine advertising department coming in to play it! The graphics and sound certainly aren't the greatest I've seen, but if it's out 'n' out racing thrills 'n' spills you're after, this is a Super NES-essity.

The programmers sent this topper road racer to us earlier this year and it had me and Jaz hooked for ages. Okay, from the screenshots you might think that Top Gear is a bit average, but you haven't seen the speed of the game or sampled the amazing gameplay! Top Gear is simply the most amazingly playable road racer yet devised. I cannot aptly described the sheer feeling of speed that Top Gear manages to convey, especially when you make use of one of your three nitros. Add in the two-player mode and you have what can only be described as one of the most compulsive games yet devised. There are no grumbles about the lack of variety either. There are many tracks to conquer and four cars to attempt this task with. I thought that F-Zero and F1 Exhaust Heat were the best examples of the racing genre, but I was wrong. Everything you really need from a road racer is in Top Gear!