If the fact that Crash Time I, II and III went completely under your radar has you worried that you’re losing touch with games, then calm down.
Like its predecessors, Crash Time IV is the videogaming equivalent of a straight-to-DVD film: low budget, low production values and low quality.
Unfortunately, while the first game in the series might have got away with it in the early proving grounds of this generation, £40 is a big ask for this hammy Hot Pursuit knock-off.
Given the name and the nature of this large open-world, the first instinct we have isn’t to follow the GPS down busy autobahns and city streets, but to try smash some stuff up and put the physics engine through its paces.
It’s actually more robust than we’d expected, given the laughable VO, dialogue and ‘state of the art graphics’. Crashes are pretty ‘brutal’ when they happen, but that’s mostly because every vehicle we drive is made of tempered adamantium, apparently.
We plough through other vehicles like they’re hollowed out of Monster Munch while any road signs or bus shelters are made of flakey pastry, flying apart the moment our exhaust sputters within two feet.
We crash head-on with a lorry and trailer and, as you might expect from a physics-driven racing game, it shears the roof straight off and sends the remains of our crumpled car spinning off onto the embankment… wait. No it doesn’t.
Minimum:
OS: Windows XP SP3
Processor: 2 GHz Intel Dual Core Processor
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8800/ATI Radeon HD 2600 (256MB minimum)
DirectX «: 9.0c
Hard Drive: 10 GB HD space
Sound: DirectX 9.0c compatible
Recommended:
OS: Windows XP SP3/Vista/Windows 7
Processor: 2.3 GHz Intel Quad Core Processor
Memory: 3 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX460/ATI Radeon HD 5850 (512MB minimum)
DirectX «: 9.0c
Hard Drive: 10 GB HD space
Sound: DirectX 9.0c compatible
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