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Reviews for Carlos Sainz (#822)

Review by YOR on 25 Nov 2018 (Rating: 3)

There's not much I can say about this game other than it's bloody hard to steer and being in Spanish doesn't help, but I'll give it credit where it's due, the writers went all out in developing this. It looks really well programmed with some nice detail among the largely monochrome graphics. If only the gameplay wasn't so difficult for me, then I feel I would have gotten into this a lot more than I did. But there seems to be a fair degree of popularity with this one among gamers and I can see why.

Review by The Dean of Games on 13 Oct 2020 (Rating: 3)

1990 Zigurat Software (Spain)
by Jose Miguel Gomez, Manuel Rosas & Jose Antonio Merino

I feel about this game the same I did with Sito Pons. It's playable, the car looks good, although more from some angles than others. But it lacks fluidity, smoothness. Were talking about racing games, here, people. With so much flickering, it's really hard to enjoy a game like this. A bit of color would also be welcome, like in Paris Dakar, published by the same company.
I always felt Spanish games attractive on the back cover of the cassette tape, with great screenshots of the actual game and the works, but once you played them, what a disappointment. I'm sorry if I'm generalizing, but most Spanish games are all looks and no gameplay.
Again, like I said about Sito Pons, both games are playable enough, but I rather stick with older titles like Full Throttle if I wanna play a racing game, otherwise I'll play some retro MAME roms.