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Gravel Free Download Unfitgirl Gravel is an arcade-style off road racer that eschews tight and twisty traditional rallying in favour of mostly high speed assaults on generously wide tracks carved through a variety of exotic locations. Think less Codemasters’ Dirt and more a store-brand SEGA Rally Revo. The problem is that Gravel sits in a weird place on the racing spectrum; the casual driving dynamics are easy enough to pick up but the racing itself is surprisingly plain and basic for a game unshackled from any licensed motorsport organisations. The result is a passable yet unremarkable racer in a marketplace thick with better ones. Gravel’s solo mode revolves around a globetrotting, fictional racing TV show dubbed ‘Off-Road Masters’ – but it’s only a thin thread of context to string together what’s essentially an entirely conventional single-player racing career mode. Other than the occasional boss race the only real baggage the TV show premise comes with is an unlikeable announcer I turned off very quickly. Let me stress, the boss races are also a lot less interesting than they sound; they’re ultimately just standard events against a single opponent instead of seven of them. There are five rivals spaced throughout the career who are introduced via some surprisingly dorky FMV vignettes. They’re all American blokes who race in unsponsored cars with their actual names written on them, like they’re afraid of losing them in a parking lot. Unfitgirl.COM SEXY GAMES

Each has no distinguishing characteristics other than a name and a home state so their presence adds very little to the experience. The career spans a handful of racing styles, from cross country checkpoint chases to tarmac-based time attacks, and cramped, arena-style races to rallycross-inspired events. Some are considerably better than others; I quite enjoyed the high speed cross country races along the Namibian coast; strewn with shipwrecks and snaked over giant sand dunes they’re probably the best tracks in the game. They’re certainly the best-looking. On the other hand, I hate the Smash Up events. These are races against the clock where strips of mystery boxes are placed at regular intervals along the track and we need to crash through the green ticks and leave the red crosses intact or suffer a time penalty. The gimmick is that the ticks and crosses aren’t revealed until you’re a very short distance away and they change on each attempt. I found them frustrating and not particularly fun. It’s like competing against a slot machine. At around 50 vehicles Gravel’s car roster isn’t huge but it is licensed, and there are at least a few rides that rarely pop up in rally games, including a handful of Dakar-bred SUVs and pick-ups, a Porsche I haven’t seen in a racing game since EA’s 2002 off-roader Shox, and an iconic Toyota that mysteriously disappeared from the Dirt series after 2011.

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They look nice enough clad in their most recognisable liveries (like the famous Castrol Celica, or the equally iconic 555 Impreza) but less so in Gravel’s wide range of generic alternate paint jobs. Aside from new cars these extra wraps are one of the key unlocks rationed out as we progress but I never felt any desire to use them. The driving dynamics are quite numb with the available driving assists switched on because there’s neither a decent sense of weight nor the arcade-bred slipperiness of the ever-underappreciated SEGA Rally Revo. Getting rid of the assists brings back some depth to the handling, although there still doesn’t feel like there’s much difference in grip across the game’s several surface types. There are more granular tuning options which ostensibly relate to specific handling characteristics but they seem out-of-place in this sort of racer. Gravel’s lighting is generally good, from the beaming desert sun to the soft red glow of taillights in the evening. Standing water tends to have a nice glint to it, too, although the actual water effects in Gravel are otherwise disappointing. Come on, folks; Colin McRae Rally 3 had raindrops that slithered across the windscreen over 15 damn years ago. The presentation is clean and tidy but post-race Gravel has an aggravating habit of sending us back out to the main race menu and forcing us to scroll through several unavailable races to get back to where we were previously. Fallen Doll Operation Lovecraft

Why it doesn’t just default to the next logical race is a mystery; it’s very irritating. Online multiplayer options are bare-boned; you can simply jump into a quick race or create a lobby of your own. It’s a ghost town at the moment, though, and sadly there’s no splitscreen to ease that issue. There’s nothing inherently wrong with building a racing game atop a straightforward handling model geared at casual racing fans keen for some simple thrills and spills, but Gravel has little beyond that. The very best arcade racers layer on lashings of special sauce to imbue them with identities of their own. Split/Second arrived with dynamic race tracks that were literally blown to pieces as we blasted through them. SEGA Rally Revo was resurrected with the same intense speed we remembered but bolstered with incredible visual design and eye-catching deformable surfaces. Blur brought Mario Kart-esque combat to street racing in licensed cars. Trackmania Turbo is stunt racing on a four-day Froot Loop bender. Gravel has no special sauce. Right now it’s just beef on a bun. It has a handful of decent tracks and small smattering of rarely seen cars, and that’s… kinda it. It has no unique flavour. Perhaps with bolder and wilder track designs Gravel could’ve made a better case for itself, or maybe it needed more cars on course for more frantic racing.

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Arcade racing games have been few and far between during this console generation, which makes Gravel’s straightforward approach feel almost like a throwback. On its surface, Milestone’s latest appears to toe the line between being an authentic simulation of off-road racing, and a rough-and-tumble arcade experience. There are myriad driver assists that let you tune the difficulty to your liking, and the option to tweak each vehicle’s ride height, differentials, and so on, gives you some degree of performance-based customisation. Yet the effect these options have on Gravel’s driving model are negligible at best. This is an unpretentious arcade racer that’s incredibly easy to pick up and play, but this simplicity also contributes to a lack of heart-pounding excitement. Gravel’s single player career mode, dubbed “Off-road masters”, has you globetrotting between events that mix up different race types and disciplines, with each one loosely connected by the concept of a Gravel TV show. There’s not much of substance to this structure beyond the inclusion of an unenthusiastic commentator imparting a few tired lines before and after every race, and a few quasi boss fights that bookend each block of episodes. The latter do at least come locked and loaded with some corny FMV introductions, where fictional racing drivers strike poses in what can only be described as a flaming hellscape. Fallout 4 

For as amusing as I often found these brief interludes, the mano-e-mano races that follow suffer from the same prevalent problem Gravel does as a whole: they’re just kind of boring. That’s not to say Gravel’s driving model is especially flawed. There’s an inherent burst of dopamine that comes from careening around a corner with your car sideways, and the breakneck sense of speed that’s achieved when hurtling through the verdurous forests of Alaska is certainly thrilling. But moments like this are disappointingly fleeting. You’ll drive on tracks in thunderstorms and in blizzards, and on tarmac, dirt, mud, and grass; yet with the exception of some tyre-spinning snow, there isn’t a discernible difference in feel between these contrasting road surfaces. The same can be said of Gravel’s vehicles, too, with a handling model that feels loose and floaty across the board, offering no clear distinction from vehicle to vehicle; while the physics engine is consistently bizarre. I encountered numerous instances where a stray bush was enough to send my car soaring through the air in a vomit-inducing spin, and a slight nudge from a rival driver is often all it takes to halt your vehicle’s momentum. All of this speaks to a lack of depth to Gravel’s off-road racing. This wouldn’t be an issue on its own, but the simplicity of its action craves an exciting assortment of tracks to really coalesce its various systems into something approaching an engaging racing game, and Gravel falls short of the mark.

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There are outliers, of course: the point-to-point cross country races through Alaska and the sun-drenched beaches of Namibia are highlights due to their white-knuckle nature and environmental variety. However, the rest fail to get the blood pumping with any sort of regularity. There are a few real world Rallycross tracks, but most of the courses on offer are fictional, and it’s a shame they’re not more imaginative. The majority of the time I felt like I was simply going through the motions, even after bumping the difficulty up to hard for a more substantial challenge. And this feeling is only exacerbated by the limited number of environments on offer, with multiple tracks taking place in the same locations. Meanwhile, multiplayer options are confined to creating your own lobby to invite friends, or jumping into a quick match in the hopes of finding others to race against–but this is easier said than done. After numerous attempts I’ve only managed to find a solitary match, which was populated with three other people (the rest of the grid was made up of AI drivers). Other than this I’ve had no luck finding another race, even a week after launch. Visually, weather and lighting effects are occasionally impressive, but otherwise Gravel’s tracks mostly look flat, and a short draw distance leads to shadows and foliage frequently popping into view. Fallout 4 VR

There’s also a lack of detail to each vehicle’s body, and a smoothness to each one that gives the illusion they’re coated in a sheen of vaseline. They look more like toy cars than the high-powered mud-churners they should be. In my mind’s eye, Gravel’s bland visuals contribute to a game that doesn’t look too dissimilar from the seven year old titles it most closely resembles. There’s something appreciable about its no-nonsense style, and there’s definitely some intermittent fun to be had with its arcade style racing. But it doesn’t do anything that its contemporaries haven’t done better before, and it fails to stand out as an enjoyable alternative, which is unfortunately reflected by its barren multiplayer component. Like the fireworks that occasionally ignite throughout select races, Gravel’s attempts at excitement don’t quite dazzle. Most racing games today are split between two types: po-faced simulation or pure arcade romps. Also, sorry for using the word “romps”. There is a third type, seen so rarely that it’s almost always a welcome surprise. That third type encompasses games like Project Gotham Racing, the Grid series and even Motorstorm to a degree. These games often use real cars and tracks, and even real-world physics, but they’re often more exaggerated so it’s easier to drift or you can jump off unrealistically high ramps and land without shattering both your suspension and the soft, squidgy human inside the vehicle.

I rather like this third form of racing games, so it’s nice to see that Gravel slots into that niche quite nicely. It starts off with an incredibly cringe-inducing intro video, featuring real men (by that I mean they’re not CGI) acting all tough in front of a camera, introduced as the ‘Off-Road Masters’ against whom you’ll be competing at various points throughout Gravel’s campaign. This leads into some exceptionally generic guitar riffs and metal, because you can’t have off-road racing without a bit of metal or rock music, can you? It’s basically the official soundtrack to any ‘extreme’ racing discipline. Honestly, I was beginning to get flashbacks of that awful Flat Out game from last year. Luckily, Gravel’s gameplay is far, far better than that. It drops you into your first race with a little fanfare, as the strangely British announcer (let’s face it, it’s usually proper American frat boys that’d be shouting their way through intros and whatnot, for games like this) tries his hardest to get you pumped up for a race at the beach. There are fireworks and, erm, let’s say “adoring” fans, because they’re totally not the usual badly textured, poorly animated, cut-and-paste people at all. Nope. Can you tell I’m being sarcastic? Does it show? Anyway, when the race actually begins, it’s hard not to be drawn right into the fun, frantic battle for first place. During the course of your time with Gravel and its Off-Road Masters campaign

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