Cruis'n (ironically) looks like a train wreck

by Justin McElroy on Nov 5th 2007 4:28PM

Listen, we know that the Wii doesn't have a ton of processing power under the hood, but is it really necessary to also release games that look like Cruis'n? It's like forcing the asthmatic kid in your gym class to wear a "World's Best Breather" T-shirt. It's just unnecessarily cruel.

Of course, the same could be said of us for subjecting you to this Cruis'n trailer, which we'd sooner guess was an animated menu screen on the 2 Fast, 2 Furious DVD than an actual video game. So, can the final product be as bad as this trailer makes it appear? Well, scientifically, no. But we'll keep our fingers crossed.

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Tags: cruisn, wii

Reader Comments (110)

Yeah, busman here.

do i need to have the extra memory pack for the n64 to play this

Well I can only assume it'll turn out better than the new RUSH: THE WHIP SET did. (Besides, its Cruis'n, not PGR, Forza, or Gran Turismo.)

Am I the only one who thinks it doesn't look that bad? Seriously.

wow, this is just the N64 version with a decent framerate

Fernando? (silence is deafening....

hmmmm....

I love Cruis'n

this one look so pretty

Dreamcast was great for it's time. But HD resolutions? Just because it could hook up to a computer monitor w/ a VGA adapter doesn't make it HD res. For the time, it was high res (for a game console). The res it outputted was 640x480. Hooking the dreamcast up to a VGA monitor allowed it to display games in 480p instead of 480i. The resolution is still 640x480 (which in the computer world is actually quite low).
Widescreen 480p is equivalent to 720x480. And the Wii can do that resolution on a big TV screen, not just a comparatively small computer monitor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/480p
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamcast