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3D Stock Cars II
Challenge £3.99 Feb 1992 YS74
Life Expectancy: 29 
Instant Appeal: 10 
Graphics: 27 
Addictiveness: 30 
Overall: 30°  
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I'm off down the shops, does anyone want anything?
Andy Hutchinson
What a particularly stupid sport stock car racing is. I mean, you spend about six months getting a car ready to be raced and then five minutes smashing it into other carts, walls, bystanders and areas of outstanding natural beauty. In fact, I think that it should be banned forthwith. If not sooner!
    Anyway, who's played the SuperSprint game on the covertape? Right, well you lot should have a pretty good idea what this budgie is about. You see, 3D Stock Cars 2 is about racing around a series of circuits against three other cars. The only differences between this game and SS are: a) you have to qualify before each race, b) your cars look like egg-boxes, c) you can design your own 'championship' and d) this game is crap.
    The blurb on the tape inlay suggests that you can create your own championship. What this entails is choosing the order of the tracks and the number of laps you complete in each race. Not exactly gripping stuff! Nope, I'm sorry 3D Stock Cars 2 is awful; the control method's dodgy, the cars look more like space invaders, the game's extremely evocative of SS and it gets terribly boring after ten minutes. Hurumph!
    
Many thanks to Andrew West for typing this up



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