Just Drive (2024)

I drive

Pretty fun game. It isn't as sophisticated as Forza but is really fun to hop on for 10-20 minutes and just drive. Definitely worth the cost.

The handling model in this game is miserable, the car will fishtail and tankslap at the mere whiff of going off road, even when driving in a straight line. The grass may as well be ice for how slippy it is, and there is absolutely [i] no way [/i] you can correct the car once it starts. Braking makes you spin, counter-steering makes you spin, and releasing makes you wobble for miles. For a rally game, even an arcade one, being instantly punished if you dare stray from the pre-determined path is unforgivable. This isn't just confined to one car either, since every car has the same physics just with different bodies. The track "design" is awful too, incredibly bland with barely any inclines. The offroad penalty system is also pointless at the moment since the leaderboard only stores your raw pace, and not the penalty adjusted time. So feel free to cut the track all you- [i] oh wait, you can't. [/i] As for the other two game modes, I have no idea about them, since they were both stuck in infinite loading screens. So I was left with just the terrible single map time trial. Even for 89p, there is nothing of value in this game.

I really wanted to like this game but the driving physics are not it. It feels very slippery and extremely touchy. I frequently got stuck in a loop of: -car over steers (sometimes on a turn and sometimes in a straight line) -let off the gas and tap the other direction once or twice to try and correct it -the car tries to correct itself??? -car is now over steering in the other direction -repeat until spin out or flip over Braking just exacerbates the issue more often then not. Maybe its an intentional design choice but it's not really for me. Other than that, the music is alright and the visuals are great.