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has four difficulty settings: Easy, Medium, Hard and Rockhard. Each of the settings has eight different circuits, making a total of 32 circuits in the game. There are also eight themes, from desert wastes to active volcanoes and massive jungles. The tracks need four laps to complete, and feature many
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of the game include a split-screen two player mode. The Sega CD version instead has a two-player cooperative mode (one of the players controls the driver, while the other controls the fighting, steering and turbo).
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The millionaire playboy caveman Millstone Rockafella has organized a BC bike race, the winner of which will receive the Ultimate Boulderdash Bike. Six groups of riders - one driving, one deploying weapons from the
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landscapes, minimal sound effects, and difficult controls when using a three-button controller, but praised the comical graphics and "lightweight" tone, and recommended it as a decent title for younger gamers.
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critic rated it as the worst racing game on the 3DO to date, citing the lack of depth to the car handling, the ugly-looking courses, and overall outdated feel of the game. He gave it one out of five stars.
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and Chuck Rock Junior. Others are obvious references to several real-world characters, such as Brick Jagger, Sid Viscous and Jimi Handtrix (referencing
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Both of the bikes' riders can use physical attacks to injure other drivers. If the bike gets beaten enough, it crashes out, giving the player extra
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Jeremy Smith of Core Design said the original Sega CD version took "eight or nine months" to develop. Its working title was "Chuck Rally".
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commented that the graphics are sharper than in the Sega CD version, but look much worse during actual gameplay due to the choppy
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reviewed the PC version of the game and gave it two out of five stars, deeming it inferior to another kart title
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will appeal to the gamers due to its numerous tracks, humorous attacks, and simultaneous two-player action.
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gave the Sega CD version 7 out of 10, praising the controls and music, but they criticized the graphics.
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special elements specific to the circuit's setting. Unusually for a game of this type, there are no
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and prominent slowdown, especially during two-player mode. They nonetheless concluded that
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series, despite the Chuck Rock connection not being prominent.
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Developer(s)
Core Design
Publisher(s)
GoldStar
LG
Designer(s)
Platform(s)
Sega CD
Sega 32X
MS-DOS
3DO
Genre(s)
Racing
Single-player
Two player
racing video game
Core Design
1994

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