Top Gear Overdrive - Nintendo 64 Review - HD
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- Top Gear Overdrive is a racing game released in 1998 for the Nintendo 64 and the sequel to Top Gear Rally. The game has support for high-resolution graphics if used with the Expansion Pak and features music from the band Grindstone.
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Top Gear Overdrive review on the nintendo 64. Recorded using a dazzle and on original real console hardware and game cartridge.
I use to play this game on a huge dlp tv in early 2000. Great memories
I definitely loved the box art of this game, so cool!
yeah i loved it too its awesome
Playing this game with four players was (and still is) a blast. Very insane. Also, it may not be very long but to open up all secret cars (taco included) takes time and dedication, and yes they're worth it especially to play with friends.
Yeah I remember this me and brothers stayed playing this as kids
Do you happen to know how to unlock the car with a donkey in a display?
@@swissoccer if I remember correctly, it's been more than 10 years without playing it, you unlocked them by playing against the clock in different races.
Update: according to the internet there are some codes you can input in the game
I used to play this game for hours and hours with my tv hooked to a stereo just to listen and sing along to the soundtrack! Grindstone, that's the name of the band. I didn't mind the heavy compression back then, the soundtrack was killer! I remember finding online a good quality CD rip, I even tried to buy a CD, but it wasn't possible to do it from my country back then. Those songs hit me hard, good memories!
man, those songs are pretty fckn good🔥
N64 actually got a good sim racer with World Driver Championship developed by Boss Game Studio (they guys behind the first Top Gear Rally).
As for Overdrive it has amazing graphics but I find the gameplay to be unrefined and shallow, basically all it offers is the adrenaline of speed.
I much preferred Top Gear Rally which it's the best rally game on N64 IMO.
Finally, someone else who heard of World Driver Championship. It is a great sim racer that everyone seems to overlook.
Thanks for the heads'up on World Driver Championship. It looks good and I plan on getting it soon.
Dosunceste top gear rally was fun for its time
I firmly believe that World Driver Championship is undeniable PROOF that Gran Tourismo could have been pulled off on the 64...(of course with cutt content)... The driving system is very nice to learn and master. Its also great graphically. Maybe our glenn will adress this in the future review.
NEXUS NINJA your right the game looked amazing for the time maybe one of the best looking on the system
Best looking Cars on the system
Top Gear OVerdrive, Beetle Racing, Diddi Kong Racing and Wave Race the 4 Horseman on the N64. Nobody can resist :D
There are a LOT of great racing games:
San Francisco Rush series of 3 games are fantastic.
Cruisin' USA
World Driver Championship
Top Gear Rally
Extreme G
Ridge Racer 64
Wipeout 64
F-Zero X......there are tons of cool racers out there.
The soundtrack, fun shortcuts, and hot dog and n64 car made it hard to do any homework in middle school!
haha yea tell me about it!
This is one of my favourite arcade racers of all time. If only Snowblind had the financial backing of a big publisher - they would've delivered without question THE best arcade racing game of the generation. The high resolution mode combined with vast draw distances, zero pop up and awe inspiring track designs through massive canyons, swamps and mountain were impossible on rival platforms which suffered from heavy pop up. This game is one of many on the N64 that look fantastic running directly through s video straight to my Pioneer KRP600 60" plasma.
this game had some good music
My favorite Top Gear moment is whenever James May would say "Great News!" and then say something about the Dacia Sandero.
Can’t beat the ole dacias!
I remember renting this game and driving a taco. Haha. This game was wacky and looked great with the Expansion Pak.
Ooooh!! This is the taco game!
Looks smart, another reason why I need to re-acquire an N64.
that would be a smart thing to do my friend!
Actually, this title almost proved that the N64 home consoles were capable of handling GTA I , London 1969/1961 and II style video games; as to why Rockstar Games and Take Two Interactive never released the aforementioned titles on the N64, or even the NGC is anyone's guess. It is a shame, because I would have loved playing the old school, top-down GTA's on the NGC or even the cartridge based N64 home consoles.
I just bought a second hand one. Its ace
I like this game so much, F40 and McLaren F1 are my favorites in this game.
Wesley C me too
One of the best game labels ever!
damn i loved this game soooooo much
Tonight, Blue Bar sideswipes a guardrail, Green Car explodes, and Red Car drives into an icicle.
i played the original Top gear on the SNES, the music that plays on the first track is simply awesome
They used to have this game set up in the kids play area of the local pub when I was a young. Good times on 4 player against mates and other random kids
When this game first came out I was hooked I thought it was one if the best n64 games. I remember the hotdog and hamburger cars lol.
The band that provided the soundtrack for this game is from my small town in Oregon.
Amazing
This game doesn't seem to get any love. I'm glad you like it. It's definitely one of my favorite racers on the N64!
By far, one of the best soundtracks in game history
Amen to that
I just remember being shocked that there was actual music in the game!!
Some well done vistas in the tracks. How did Dodge not sue and win for such an obvious Viper on the cover?
Had a lot of fun with this game, back when falling through the track was something you just accepted lol
This game was programmed by the great Ezra Dreisbach, the coding mastermind from Lobotomy Software, who created three of the greatest FPS games of the era on Sega Saturn: Powerslave, Duke Nuken 3D and Quake.
This game never got enough credit
i know the band who made the music for this them and my mom where good friends in high school and they are planing on making music again
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I feel the car upgrading is underrated in this game. I felt it was pretty strategic - do I keep my lower grade car but with it's close to maxed out stats? Do I max them out? or do I sell it and leap to the vanilla version of a better car? The issue is the AI slowly starts to upgrade their cars creating "ace" drivers you either have to compete with technology-wise or perhaps lose out on your championship.
There it is, one the best overall racing games.
Always enjoyed this one too
This game was pretty good for a racing game on the n64 the backrounds of the tracks did look pretty good great review glenn
thank you, yeah the backgrounds are awesome i think especially on the dusk time courses!
I hated this game when a friend rented it because the cars explode the moment you look at the scenery. But on a recent playthrough, I enjoyed it. The controls and handling are great, I like the tracks. However, it sucks that the game forces you to use a specific car to win races at the beginning and that without turbo boosts, you're not going to win racers. The music is passable - it would be good if you could turn off the vocals. Nonetheless, the game has an addictive quality to it and is something I want to go back to to play some more. Like you said, Glenn, it's one of the better racers on the N64, but not one of the top tier titles.
I've never played the N64 top gear games, only the SNES/Genesis ones , although seeing video of the N64 ones makes me want to try them.
Top gear hyperbike is amazing (follow up of overdrive)
I think that perhaps the idea to use the cash pick-ups came from Top Gear 2 on Super Nintendo and the idea for the Nitro pick-ups could be a similar nod to Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 on the Amiga (in the later stages), seeing how the Top Gear game series is actually a spiritual successor to the Lotus Turbo Challenge games on the Amiga. Heck, in the original Top Gear (SNES), the soundtrack was largely composed of remixes of Lotus 1 & 2 songs, and in Top Gear Rally on N64 they got the person who composed the music for Lotus Turbo Challenge 2, and you can even hear samples from that game being used in the soundtrack at times.
ah man your taking me way back to my younger days with lotus on amiga talk! man id really like to get an amiga again...cant believe people are still modding them and keeping them alive!
***** Yeah, I'm very happy to have an Amiga, especially since I'm a silly American (I imported a PAL machine so I could play more of the games). It's actually my favorite gaming device, and I'm currently working on a game that pays homage to the system. I'm especially a big fan of the Turrican series, and it's funny that Factor 5 was actually planning to make a Nintendo 64 entry in the series, but ultimately cancelled it. To be more specific, they put it on hold, focused on Rogue Squadron, which I can't blame them for doing seeing how that's my favorite game, changed the name from Turrican 64 to Thornado due to copyright issues, moved it to the GameCube, used some of the assets in Rogue Squadron III and then cancelled it. You can find screenshots and concept art of the N64 version online as well as a music demo from Chris Huelsbeck designed for the N64 but is often mistaken for GameCube music, and this game was probably the reason as to why Factor 5 made the vast terrain engine that would be used in Rogue Squadron. By the way, I subscribed. I find your videos to be very entertaining and informative. I'll admit, I'm not the biggest N64 fan (I like it, but I don't adore it to the same extent I do some other machines), but by watching some of your videos, I'm already finding games that I want to try out. You evidently know more about the system than I do. XD
ha yeah you should check out the n64 beta project which is another series of mine where i cover unreleased games, i actually think i had a thornado episode planned one time but like the game i cancelled it hah
***** That's hilarious! XD
I'll definitely check those out. Evidently, I'm kind of a nut for that stuff. :)
Never knew racing games on N64 look this good o.O
wow the graphics look pretty good for a N64 game, I never heard of this one before... are there any hiccups in multiplayer or does it play smoothly?
quite smoothly but if your wanting to play it very well then you need the expansion pack, in multiplayer without it the detail is a little low and it makes seeing turns etc hard unless you know the tracks well. with the pack it rarely drops a beat even with 4 players in the championship mode.
i had so much fun playing this game!! Dodge Viper is my favorite car because of the cover art I actually asked this game as a birthday present. who plays the soundtrack?!
My favorite game in the franchise is Top Gear 3000; even though the cars all looked the same, they were nonetheless amazing when it came to the tracks.
i loved the soundtrack to this, brings back many memories.
Rama Shotton yeah i think its pretty darn cool too
I had it taped and used to listen to it on my walkman :)
I had this game... it's just amazing!!!
I really like top gear 3000 on snes, I recently discover it and o boy, what a blast
I loved this game! I always used to drive the taco car or the n64 logo car lol
Solid game. i remember getting this back in the day and I still have my copy.
I think the game was mostly graphically focused on instead of playability. As you can see, the game has stunningly solid frame rates and wonderfully designed graphics and other visual features, however it's lacking deeply in design and playability. It's a transcendent above other racers and it clearly is N64's most beautiful racer for it's time.
This was one of my favorite N64 racing games, only behind World Driver Championship and Re-Volt. Everything about it was fun.
wdc rocks, ill get around to that soon enough i think
Have you done a review of Extreme G-2 (XG2) as well? Because that's one of my favorite racers as well, despite the framerate problems everyone complains about.
not done either extreme g game yet! certainly need to change that soon
I have many many fond memories of top gear rally and the paint shop! Great racing series!
i actually have all the rally footage needed to review it i just haven't got around to it yet! its on the way though!
Nice! I hope youll show footage of the Beachball car. Its probably the best car ever created! ...I wish i could have that in real life... xD
i used to play this round my mates house was fun. My fave ever top gear episode is vietnam
nam was an awesome episode, i liked africa too
=) its my fave show of all time.
I remember after beating it you’d get a taco car lmao that took some serious dedication (as a kid) to beat
Plying this at my friend Joey house when we were kids. Time fiys.
I remember the game the music oh man I miss this game
Great stuff, this one I remember making my parents rent it from the local video rental store.
Superb soundtrack, too bad Grindstone didn't do much else.
Limited number of races was an issue for me, specially when games like Mario Kart threw 20 completely different tracks at you.
If you like grindstone look up point defiance, couple of the same guys including the lead singer, my dad is friends with them and was roommates with the singer when they did the music for the game
My first Nintendo 64 game... way back in 1999. Thanks for bringing back the good memories. :)
TendoGamer101 thats what this is all about :)
***** jaja thumbs up!
For SO LONG I looked for this game. All I remembered was a jeepster and the frozen brachiosaurus.
Glad you finally found it!
***** would never have found it if I hadn't seen the awesome cover.
I remember this game I had it and loved it
I remember playing a racing game where cows bounce off the ground when hit by the car, so I was wondering if it was this one.
I was literally just wondering to myself if the name Top Gear had anything to do with the TV series when you said that.
That's spooky. You can read my mind in the future!
Found it, lol. The best (imo) Top Gear game on the N64. Top Gear Rally, as you said has the floaty and (depending on your steering wheel setting) very twitchy handling, Top Gear Rally 2 was just a bit meh but this was definitely the best of the 3. Worst part for me? The tunnel shortcut with the wooden uprights in the middle...hit those and you stop but even if you just gently clip the ones around the edges Boom! your dead. Hated that but still, loved the game
Yeah some of those edges are like a slight touch and then 💥
Loving the reviews!
Dear N64 Glenn Plant, do you by chance happen to know how to unlock the donkey car? There seems to be a code, but I wonder if you can unlock it with playing as with the other secret cars.
For the first second I was like "OMG THOSE GRA-
Oh it's the intro..."
Imagine ! 😃
@@n64glennplant Lol 😂
This is a must for me, I love n64 racing titles.
Top gear 2 for snes is still my favourite racer
I did own this as a kid and did love it. The two things I hated was the music and it was too easy to explode and thought it was too easy to fly off everything. I loved the secret cars though and i too wanted it because of the Expansion Pak.
yeah when you get the ferrari clone you just need to like touch another car or the sides at speed and you go boom! i liked the music but yeah as i said in the video i think its defo a love or hate thing. all down to style etc
Do you other systems too? Love your reviews from n64
It is a great game but you forgot the one major flaw - falling through the ground. Also top gear rally had a glitch were you can get stuck on the wall and it doesn't respawn you.
Never actually gave this one a shot, but you might have just convinced me to go out and pick it up.
Favorite moment in the Top Gear show? I liked when they drove the Alfa Romeos and Richard kept running into the back of James' car. That continued to be a gag on through the series, but I'm fairly certainly that was where it started. It made me laugh every time.
::slam:: RICHARD!
ImperatorScab poor richard, he's never looked or been the same since the crash he had
I remember the shortcuts in this game were hard to find and I spent hours just finding them the time trial mode then trying to remember when I started the actual race
yeah you really do need to find them to win the later championships so its time well spent
Whoa. Never heard of this one until now. The graphics are stunning!
I like playing as the hotdog car lol.
Man this game was my shit....it seemed so hi tech at the time to me lol 98? Wow it seems like yesterday
This is one of my favorite racers on the N64. Along with Cruis'n USA, Beetle Adventure Racing, and F-Zero. The N64 still rocks!
I've just recently given this one a real shot, and it's good fun. However, having recently spent 20 hours on Stunt Racer 64, there's one thing that's bothering me: Overdrive gives me the option to upgrade the cars, but if I switch to a different one, all those upgrades disappear. WHY?
Because the upgrades are unique to that car
@@n64glennplant okay. Just realized I misspoke. I don't mean that I change to another car and the upgrades don't transfer between them; I mean that if I change to another car, then change back to the one I originally upgraded, it no longer has the upgrades. When compared with Stunt Racer where upgrades are permanent, it's a nuisance. Though switching cars DOES seem to refund some of the money in Overdrive.
I think that they did that to make people really think about changing cars ie is it better to push on with current or buy a new one and start over but with a slightly higher base stat machine which could be specced out higher than their current one
my favorite was top gear 3000 from super nintendo. i didn't play much of the N64 games, but given Kemco's History, is a great guess that this games is a great pick up.
Well, I guess the 640x240 was to make the performance stay well, as also another thing that I liked is that despite it makes the screen view a bit smaller, it had a Half-Hi Res mode that you could use to give it a higher resolution WITHOUT a Expansion Pak (I didn't have the luck of have one, and TGO is the only game compatible with EP that I currently have that works, I have Stadium 2 but no longer works), and I guess it uses either that resolution too (but without screen adjusting), or something just a little bit lower than that.
I quite remind this game. Actually it was one of the last titles i hear about what was released here in Portugal before the N64 disappear in the shadow and the beginning of the release of the Gamecube as well. The N64 didn't have a good impact to be honest. In over the past last years, i think this game make a good feedback even to the graphics limitations.
yeah i think some of the course lighting was quite amazing on this especially the dusk levels!
The retroware opening is even cooler now!~
we can choose which one we want to use, i like both but this one makes a fresh change :)
The game really got fun when you unlocked the Ferrari F40
I agree this is an impressive racer on the N64. A must have racer on the N64.
no doubt about it whatsoever!
I wanted a dodge viper with teeth.
I like the visual style, its colorful and somewhat cell shaded, I think the one that people remember the most is automolista, but this would work well visually for the younger audience, Im all for the cartoon style for n64...its hard to buy games for kids...ds is great, but I was somewhat disappointed with the wii u....thats hard for me to say, since im big on nintendo.
First game I ever played
did you enjoy it?
There were times the music had me like "is that Alice in Chains?", LOL.
Glenn, just a question, what breed is the dog you have on facebook next to the n64 soccer game.? I dont have a facebook account thats why Im asking here. Thanks
+TheFreakRocker I'm not sure which pic you mean but it's probably my chihuahua
Cool..Eevee right? Btw, I believe I watched all your videos by now, amazing to say the least, here in Uruguay its really hard to collect for the N64, I didnt have one as a kid, but I fell in love with it and its one of my biggest collections, Im getting there to get all the games I want hehe. Keep up the amazing job on the reviews!!
not one ive played tbh glenn, it looks pretty decent and the sense of speed I can tell is there
yeah you should check this one out, its a decent game albeit a little short. nice to be able to polish off a full game in one weekend for a change though i think!
i love that box art. it would be sweet airbrushed on a n64. I might pick this up ,looks fun. would be better as a combat racer i think.
yeah i think that too! definitely one of the cooler box arts!
Great review as always! This one is on my list :) hehe
let me know what you think when you get it!
childhood
Just got this game, is it my N64 or is the audio and sound awful in this game, on my speakers it sounds like it's clipping badly every so often.
This was my favorite racing game on the N64. I liked the grunge songs so much that I decided to plug my console on my father's stereo one day and end up being very disappointed by the muffled sound. Still a killer game imo.
will you do both Goemon Games and Mischief makers?
fuck I miss this game
Hmm I hates the first game, is this more inline with Cruisn or Ridge Racer?
Who feels old and watching this in 2018?
😅
I just picked this up at my local game store in California for $12. It is fun!
In your opinion what IS the best racer on the N64 Glenn?
I bought this recently and was trying it out tonight. I don't think the developers wanted you to select manual transmission... absolutely the worse implementation I've ever seen! Only one button can be assigned "shift" so you end up only being able to upshift. There must be some nuance I'm missing? I was impressed by the graphics though.
How's the handling of the turning? does it have realistic physics? what other game has similar physics?
How does TGO stack up with Diddy Kong Racing and Mario Kart 64?
hmm hard to say as they are totally different games. as TGO is an arcade racer and MK64 and DKR are cart racers they are hard to compare but id say in terms of arcade racers on the n64 this is one of the best
i played top gear on snes and i liked it. this one looks pretty cool
you know I'm sure i had TG on snes at some point but honestly can't remember it at all now
There are so many good racers on the 64
yeah tons, its probably my fav genre so i must admit i do like covering them