Beetle Adventure Racing

Beetle Adventure Racing is a racing game published in 1999 for the Nintendo 64 was jointly developed by Paradigm Entertainment and Electronic Arts and published by Electronic Arts.

Although the game already includes the new Volkswagen New Beetle, many features such as the music and the content level are due to the 1970s.

The license for the benefit of the New Beetles erlang paradigm similar to the movie Jurassic Park II and the Mercedes Benz M by the fact that the New Beetle was just released new and therefore appeared in the game as an ideal advertising space.

Although the vehicles as New Beetles look like they control rather cumbersome and in some places action- heavy.

  • 3.1 Two Players
  • 3.2 Four players

Stretch

In Beetle Adventure Racing, there are six different routes. Each has been very big for a N64 racing game and lasts for three rounds ( six minutes ). The trails offer a destructible environment here and there. For each race the player is traveling first a short path to reach the route. After the third round, the player will also be forced with a shut-off on a path to go to the finish.

The routes are fictitious or are inspired by real environments.

Coventry Cove

  • Difficulty: Easy
  • Setting: England / Scotland
  • Available: yes

The easiest route in the game. You drive through a hot-air balloon competition, a huge cliff waterfall, through an old village, boat docks, on sidings, Stonehenge, mines and mining through a ruined castle along with a monastery.

Mount Mayhem

  • Difficulty: Easy
  • Venue: Alps
  • Available: yes

An easy route with many abbreviations hazards is through a small village, a crystal cave and many winding hills. In addition, a navigable ski jump to find.

Inferno Isle

  • Difficulty: Medium
  • Venue: Adventure Island
  • Available: Free games through championship level beginners

A more sophisticated way. The route begins at a beach, through a Jurassic Park exhibit, where a T -Rex waiting to catch a Beetle is through a densely populated village on the lake, by a volcano, to a burning village.

Sunset Sands

  • Difficulty: Medium
  • Venue: Oasis / Desert
  • Available: Free games through championship level Advanced

A curvy route. Coming off the path, you lose the easy orientation. The route leads mostly through a desert. In addition, you drive through numerous temples, a huge pyramid, a city in the desert and an oasis over.

Metro Madness

  • Difficulty: Hard
  • Setting: city, fictional recreation of Las Vegas
  • Available: Free games through championship level professional

This route is very winding. Ranging over a highway you drive through the city. In the town the route goes through an entertainment district, a channel and an industrial area. The numerous abbreviations such as a cinema, an elevated railway line, a casino and a hotel be many ways to achieve a good seat. The route ends at the railway station in the industrial area.

Wicked Woods

  • Difficulty: Hard
  • Venue: Mysterious Forest
  • Available: Free Play Bonus degree of mastery

Hazards is mainly in a dark forest. During the trip, you get to old windmills passing on one level, a bell tower, a gloomy little village and a dragon's cave full of gold. On the abbreviations, among other things, a navigable Haunted Mansion are a dungeon same tunnel and a zone full of blue giant mushrooms and Halloween pumpkins.

HSV Adventure Racing

A modified version under the name " HSV Adventure Racing" was released a year later in Australia. Here, the New Beetle has been replaced by HSV cars. Paradigm was, however, no information why not here the licensing of the New Beetle was continued

Multiplayer

The game can be played with up to four players.

Two players

In the two- player modes you can take the courses for two with computer players.

Four players

With two to four players can use the so-called " Beetle Battle" mode. Who will find the first six differently colored beetles in the arena and crossed the finish line wins the game. One is shattered, however, with his car or is attacked by his friends with items, you lose a beetle. There are items that are scattered everywhere as boxes on the road, such as invincibility, Turbo or rocket launcher. The routes are mostly scenes from the major routes such as the underground car park of Metro Madness or the ruins of Coventry Cove.

Background

  • Beetle Adventure Racing is to date the last exclusive racing game from EA for a Nintendo console. Qualitiv it is high even in contrast to the current multi- party games.
  • Despite the great success and many copies sold, no successor appeared.

Music

The music was inspired by the 1970s and was produced by Phil Western, Scott Blackwood and Brenden Tennant. Scott Blackwood was also the producer.

The Level Mount Mayhem used excerpts from the music Last Christmas by Wham!.

Virtual Console

On the ESRB website Beetle Adventure Racing was listed as hearty game in the Virtual Console. The date is yet to be set. Whether there are changes or add- ons or even the HSV Adventure Racing version is available for download, is also unclear.

  • USK 0
  • Computer game 1999
  • Racing game
  • Nintendo 64 game
  • Virtual Console game
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