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Brand: Sony EAN: 0711719713227 ESRB Age Rating: Teen Label: Sony Manufacturer: Sony MPN: Unknown Platform: PlayStation2 Publisher: Sony Studio: Sony Features:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Anti-gravity maneuvers are essential for high G-vertical climbs and maintaining stability at terminal speeds. Moreover, the maneuverability of the Kinetic Skins allow racers to perform insane stunts and draft opponents to enhance the Skin's speed. Kinetica provides pure arcade-style racing focusing on the thrill of competition. Everything from the Kenetic Skin technology to aggressive opposition delivers an adrenaline-filled racing experience. The 12+ tracks in six unique racing environmen Amazon.com Review: Kinetica illustrates the point that you need more than speed and flashy graphics to make a good high-speed racing game. Sure, the racing here is fast, but design issues quickly turn it into a wreck of a title. Like the Wipeout and Extreme G games, Kinetica features futuristic car designs, a bumping techno soundtrack, and racetracks that defy the laws of physics and logic. In the world of Kinetica, you don't merely race in cars, you become a car. You race wearing one of several special suits that feature souped-up wheels and engines, and choose from a variety of drivers. Each combination of suit and driver performs differently and withstands varying amounts of damage. In order to finish in a decent place, your racer must locate power-ups and perform stunts in the air and on the ground. Successfully completing a stunt will increase your speed boosts. It's just as important for you to learn the many alternate routes each track offers. Every other racer is out to get you and will try to smash or disable you in a variety of ways. Once racing begins, Kinetica crashes and burns. The racing is blindingly fast, which makes it very hard to concentrate on performing the trickier stunts. Often you can't see far into the distance, which leads to frequent crashes into walls and other obstacles. You can easily fall completely off a track because of the overly frantic action. The awkward track design and the number of challenges you face each moment severely limits the fun factor for players. The game also experiences some occasionally drastic slowdowns when more than two racers are onscreen at once. Kinetica's original gameplay ideas should have stayed in the shop for more fine tuning. --Mark Brooks Pros:
Amazon.com Product Description: Kinetica provides pure arcade-style racing with several original twists, the foremost of which is the use of kinetic suits--scientifically advanced exoskeletons that fuse with individuals, allowing them to harness excessive speed, incredible agility, and the ability to adhere to almost any surface. Antigravity maneuvers are essential to going ballistic on high-G vertical climbs and maintaining stability at terminal speeds. Moreover, the maneuverability of the kinetic suits allows racers to perform insane stunts and draft behind opponents to enhance the suits' speed. Each of the 12-plus tracks set in six different racing environments has its own unique personality, design tempo, and challenging obstacles. Kinetica tracks are specifically designed to allow the pure competitive nature of racing to assert itself in the most dramatic ways possible, including offering multiple line corners, alternative crossover pathways, and more. Finely tuned artificial intelligence will keep you on edge as each opposing kinetic racer adapts and adjusts its driving over the course of the race. Using strategically timed turbo boosts, planning Boost Syphons, and drafting off opponents will stimulate the competitive element within the interactive field of racers. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Just needed to complete my ps2 game collectionThis game is kinda fun for the price. I only paid $8 that's with shipping. If you like racing and you just want it in a different form, then you'll like this game. It's easy and simple. you just race. Would not pay more than $10 though. Rating:  - The funnist racing game I ownKinetica was the first PS2 game I bought and I still play it till this day. The graphics are sweet the story is pertty good but the sound track for this game was perfect. I just wish sony could put it out on a cd so that I can purchase it. Rating:  - unique and originalthe first time playing kinetica a few years ago, i mus admit i didnt like it. Back then, i found it difficult, but i soon realized that the only reason i found it so difficult was because i had little to no expierience in racing games. I waited, i played the need for speed series, and i picked this game up again. Now that i have more expierience, this game is an adrenaline filled rollercoaster. The game feastures full body suits, that have wheels on the hand and feet, which race you through ... Read More Rating: - My Personal View On This GameSome professional game reviewers or verteran game players may disagree or agree with me, when I say that this game is really awesome! For me it has up beat music (Hybrid, Way Out West, and the oh so awesome Juno Reactor to name a few for fast racing. There are no weapons such as lasers, guns, missles, or blades (there is one item that sends a "shock bolt" to other racers, but it only slows them down to 0 mph with no damage). I don't like racing games to have weapons of distruction while you race. The ... Read More Rating: - One of the Best PS2 Games I've ever played!Kinetica is a futuristic game that allows you to race in a Kinetic suit on awesome tracks. the suits allow you to easily pull off over 7 different stunts. The tracks move off in to different areas, there are no plain trcks in this game. You can play by yourself in a Season (which you can unlock the tracks for when you play with your friends), a single race, or just a practice race to memorize your tricks, which give you boost to better your chances at winning. You'd be crazy not to like this game! |
