Yahoo UK Review: OutRun Online Arcade

There are few moments in gaming quite so exhilarating as speeding around a clifftop hairpin in a gleaming red Ferrari, Sega blue skies stretching off for miles around, while a blonde girl in the passenger seat punches the air in glee. It’s a schoolboy sort of fantasy, for sure, but OutRun has always been the best driving game at delivering it, be it in the arcades with a jealous crowd looking on or at home on a console over Xbox LIVE.

OutRun Online Arcade is, in a great many ways, more of the same. Based on Outrun 2, the polished follow-up to the seminal 1980s arcade racer, it delivers much of the same experience that Xbox owners drove back in 2003. However, for this title there are two key distinctions. Firstly, the game is based on the OutRun 2 SP arcade cabinet, the latest iteration of the arcade game with its new American-themed courses and tactics-encouraging slipstreaming technique. Secondly, and most importantly, it’s available as a downloadable only, for the astonishingly reasonable price of 800 MSP (£6.80).