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City Driving Simulator 2 Switch NSP Free Download It was while browsing the eShop in the new releases section that my eye was drawn to this game. Being younger, I spent a lot of time on Android mobile games whose purpose was either to park a vehicle on its parking space, often cars, or driving in urban traffic. And as so often, past experiences lead to nostalgia and this simulates the effect of “it was so long before” ; taken from this nostalgia, I was therefore interested in City Driving Simulator, available since June 26 on Nintendo Switch.At first glance. ROMSLAB.COM BEST SWITCH GAMES

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I did not manage to crack but I finally had the possibility to test the game thanks to a key sent by the publisher.Concretely, the general idea is interesting, although not very innovative. But the problem is that the core of the game is clearly not mastered . As a reminder, we are here in an urban driving simulation game and, if you have ever been in a car, you know that there is a whole regulation for driving, the theoretical aspect of the thing: the highway code . Here, it is almost non-existent and sometimes, you are urged not to respect it at all.

An interesting general idea, but a poorly mastered background

The goal of City Driving Simulator is seen and reviewed on mobile. The player is simply asked to complete defined courses as quickly as possible . All in all, the game offers to drive ten vehicles , ranging from simple city cars to heavy goods vehicles, including a 4 × 4, a very long bus or even a sports car. Each vehicle is “divided” into five different routes , leading to a total of 50 challenges to complete . We said it just before, the goal of each race is approximately the same: to finish by going as fast as possible.METAL SLUG 3 Switch NSP

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The faster you finish, the higher your score will be and the more money you will collect. These are also essential to unlock the next vehicle ; initially you won’t really care, but for the later vehicles, the game will bring a dose of try hard pushing you to score your high scores all over the place to raise enough money. Depending on the vehicle, you will nevertheless have subtleties: obstacle course, “fast” race , checkpoints within a given time (for the bus, each stop being a checkpoint) or even park here and there, sometimes forward, sometimes backwards.

The totally brainless AI in City Driving Simulator

This AI is also totally strawberry, you guessed it. These stories of turn signals or lights aren’t the only things to blame the game on, since pedestrians aren’t smarter than drivers : if you have the misfortune to enter a parking lot while a pedestrian is on the sidewalk , it will continue its way until it sticks to your vehicle and finally does not move. Conscience obliges, it is quite difficult to move back at full speed and push aside this NPC who, rest assured, will remain upright on his legs and will obviously not suffer any damage. Just like vehicles, panels or even benches and lights that will be indestructibleand even real ultra-reinforced concrete walls for street furniture. A simple stop sign can make you lose weight, even with a heavy weight.METAL SLUG Switch NSP

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The handling of the game is quite strange at first glance: as much the steering wheel displayed at the bottom left of the screen turns well at the same time as your joystick, as the vehicles as for them suffer from a kind of input-lag illogical , pushing you during the first few minutes to keep the joystick tilted longer and, of course, to take you all the walls of the game. However, once all this is well registered in our brain, the handling is a little easier . Fortunately, actually, since the game forces you to be as precise as possible: go back once and you know that you greatly reduce your chances of hitting the gold medal.

A questionable technique

You probably guessed it from reading the lines about the gameplay, but let’s clarify things: yes, City Driving Simulator is knee-soft in technical terms . However, it does not suffer from slowdowns. But it is still particularly poor visually, the display distance is good enough to see the road but too bad to display the buildings in the distance which, despite their level of detail worthy of a 2014 mobile game, tend to suddenly appear on your screen. Metro Redux Switch NSP

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The vehicles are not ugly but are not particularly well modeled and the environment is very “simulator-like”, namely very poor. The game is notlike ark a visually unnamed disaster, but it will offer the bare minimum. With a small car it’s not so annoying, but with a bus several meters long, it’s quickly frustrating , especially since your cars have a life gauge. If you hit too many walls, signs or vehicles, you lose and you have to start all over again, making the game extremely punitive. On the other hand, traffic lights, stops and more rarely roundabouts are of no use.Mighty Switch Force! Collection Switch NSP

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