Road to Hell 3D is an arcade style racer available now for free on the Nokia Ovi Store with a handful of cars and even more tracks to whizz around in. Is it any good, or should it be taken to the scrapyard? Read our Road to Hell 3D review to find out.
There's plenty of racing games for your Nokia on the Ovi Store, but of course not all of them are free. Road to Hell 3D is. It's not long before you realise why, besides the adverts that make it so.
Entering Road to Hell 3D on our N97, things got off to an unsuitably slow start. The menus are poorly presented and require more fingertips than they should. Unfortunately it was a sign of things to come.
From the off, the graphics look as if they've been given the once over with a wirebrush, so jagged are they. And cars don't so much resemble automobiles as they do moving blobs of wasted pixels on wheels.
Handling doesn't fare well either. It's atrocious. You can try to steer accurately, but you'll soon be swerving all over the place at some point, before having to reverse back into the race. To drive simply tap or hold down on the arrows situated at the far left and right of your Nok's screen. Reversing is similar, except you tap or hold the reverse pedal in the bottom centre of the screen resembling a cheese grater. For the duration of our play it may as well have been.
The track doesn't even lend itself well to the game's controls, with an abundance of tight hairpin corners almost impossible to navigate without getting friendly with the crash barriers. Master Road to Hell 3D and you'll be able to master any racing game. What at least should be challenging is just purely frustrating.
As you'll have guessed, we're not too fond of Road to Hell 3D. With poor graphics, poor presentation and disastrous gameplay this is one best left at the starting grid.
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