Control gives your car “boost” powered which as the name suggests makes the car go faster, and SHIFT allows you to drift around corners ala The Fast and the Furious 3: Tokyo Drift.īeginners are presented with tasks that involve driving to one point, picking up an item (by driving over the target area) then returning to base. Driving itself is as hard as using your arrow keys, and all cars are automatic so there’s no gear shifting. Like say Second Life or similar virtual worlds you can communicate with other members. You start with a standard car which you can drive around a city scape which is apparently on some sort of mining focused island in the North Pacific (I tuned out during the intro screens). It feels a little bit like the classic arcade game Outrun, which if you’re old enough to remember the game isn’t necessarily a bad thing. This is a free game so you wouldn’t expect top level graphics, and you don’t get them.
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Then there is a number of screens during installation, and it attempts to install something called XFire, a gamers communication device that isn’t necessary for the game, I hit cancel on this one and finally got to the game itself.
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The only option on the download was to turn off P2P sharing, which warns you that if you turn it off your download will be slower, how wasn’t explained but it never takes me that long to download something off BitTorrent for example so perhaps others weren’t using this option. also scrimps on a decent server to handle downloads I may only have a 2mb cable connection but the 700mb took nearly 4 hours to download via a Windows installer program that gave no indication of download speeds or how long it would take.
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Why you need IE7 when the game runs on its own software is beyond me. First up was the site telling me that I needed to be using IE 7 to play the game (no mention of Windows, but that’s a given), so I switched across to a virtual machine running Windows to get started. Most people would presume that casual gaming would equate to quick to play, but with Drift City the word casual is someone’s idea of a joke. I’d read about their driving game “Drift City” on Something Awful this weekend so this was my starting point. offers a variety of games including traditional titles such as Poker and Chess, and then site specific games including a warfare game by the name of Soldier Front, a shooter called Gunz and a couple of other games.
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Its US arm NHN USA Inc launched the gaming portal in 2006, and since this time its grown to high levels, with Alexa counting the site at 580, but notably 256th spot in the US (yes yes, Alexa cant be trusted etc., but sites don’t get this high on Alexa without some traffic). The company is claimed to be the be “the leading internet company” in its home market and has a huge gaming presence in Japan and China, with the company claiming 170 million registered gamers in China. South Korean company NHN comes with strong credentials. It’s a hot vertical, particular since the rise of the Nintendo’s Wii console proved that there was a huge willing market for games that don’t need a 4 hour long instruction session from a gaming geek. We’ve covered a variety of casual gaming sites before on TechCrunch.
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