CarX Drift Racing Online

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  1. TheXboxHub
    Sep 19, 2020
    80
    CarX Drift Racing Online is a very capable drift simulator. The physics work, the joy of sliding and skidding is real, and if you have the slightest interest in the noble Japanese art of drift, you need to play this game.

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  1. Xbox_Alive
    Sep 15, 2020
    5
    CarX Drift Racing Online: The story is a multi-layered patchwork of intrigue and political espionage, where you play a government employee,CarX Drift Racing Online: The story is a multi-layered patchwork of intrigue and political espionage, where you play a government employee, that worked at the city’s road planning and development department. Upon discovering some budgeting inconsistencies with regards to the level of tarmac replacement funding, you find out that the corrupt heads of the state are literally pouring thousands into tarmac in order to allow them to take part in the popular sport of electroni-KAR drifting. With the impending alien invasion lurking, you have to make sure you can prove your mettle against the cyber drifter gangs that roam the empty cities, earning drift points that will allow you gain access to further levels of corruption, take on dinosaurs, and finally hold aloft the Shadow drifter Sword. It’s about drifting. It’s about drifting, which in retrospect is not a bad thing as most racers have a strong drift presence. I got to the point of retrying an entire track when I happened to not take a particular corner as well as I could have. CarX is one of these games where until you ‘get it’ you’re going to potentially sit there confused as to how the devil you’re meant to score any drift points, let alone 10's of thousands in later levels. There’s a mix of ideas at play here full of detailed ideas. However other parts will have you shaking your head. The main drift races cover a range of tracks in various shapes, forms and conditions. Sometimes you’ll get the chance to race a track in reverse mode, other times you’ll be dealing with different ground conditions through some very solid graphics. They have hilarious crowds at the side of the road that look like quite the mannequins, and you wonder why they bothered putting them there in the first place if only for a bit of additional scenery. There’s a pile of things to be frustrated about. The game economy doesn’t really work. You race to unlock points to increase your level that will unlock more tracks and equipment and car accessories. However once you unlock a track you still need to buy it in order to play it. Which often means you are left grinding tracks you’ve completed for the sake of getting more money and not in order to improve your performance. It’s an unnecessary addition to force you to play, and it almost reeks of a mobile phone game's progress of unlock system. I really don’t like it. As well as the drifting stages, you also have straight racing stages, where you have to get the best time possible. The cars in CarX aren’t built to race, they’re built to drift. Look, the brakes don’t work, like seriously don’t slow you down. You’ll spend so much time digging yourself out of the side of the track. When you turn the wheel above a certain speed, then they go in the opposite direction, because the animation has been designed to make it look like you are drifting. So you end up not taking the racing line but the drifting line as it is the only way to succeed. When you retry a track, then a ghost copy of your previous best attempt will race with you. Except, it’s not a ghost. You can’t see through it, and even worse is that it still produces all the cool tire smoke you get when you are drifting around so you simply can't see the track. It really just doesn’t make sense, and there's just one too many flaws in CarX Drift Racing Online to stand up with the best of the racers available on todays market for Xbox One.… Full Review »
  2. Metliman
    Sep 13, 2020
    8
    Pretty fun and good game to mess around in the car models look pretty much like what they are trying to rip off and the physics are pretty good.