Roadwars

vpiezsak 2011-02-15
(10/10)
Great fun and nice graphics for the time.
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stooart 2011-01-13
(3/10)
Another horrendous version of an, admitedly, dire arcade game. The 2 player option didn't save this from being a terribly repetitive shooter.
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Chuckles 2009-05-20
(10/10)
Unusual game. Graphics don't seem that bad and there is something of a hypnotic quality about this game. But the controls are difficult; the destructive obstacles and opponents, both on the roadside, and that other 'ball-thing'--seem arbitrary.
I'd have to play this one quite a bit more to make sense of it, but as mentioned, it is an unusual game and does have that 'wierd' '80's video quality to it.
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Wandus 2005-03-08
Melbourne house created a lot of buzz when it announced plans to produce, through its arcadia arm, full-fledged arcade games based on standard A500-hardware. Consumers would consequently be treated to exact reproductions of the original arcade hits at home. "roadwars" was the first title.

blasting things is a tried-and-tested concept and virtually infallible. Five minutes of "roadwars" nevertheless proves incredibly successful at invalidating such a theory. While similar games such as "road blasters" try to take in the player with a fairly large variety of opponents and changing backdrops, "roadwars" confidently insists on staying on a beige road enclosing some kind of sphere (a planet, perhaps ) . The dark depths of space look as intimidating as they bore the hell of your joystick efforts while the sound design is uninspiring. I think it was martin gaksch of german mag power play who wrote that if he had seen this at an arcade, he would never have inserted a coin.

i don't think there were further amiga-arcade hybrids after this insignificant release. It was unfortunate that a basically intriguing idea self-imploded due to time constraints - or impossible incompetence: 16bit computers were perfectly capable of arcade-qualtiy action (goldrunner, xenon 2, gauntlet 2, lionheart, shadow of the beast...), so how could one fail so horribly?

had this experiment succeeded, the Amiga may have been around forever...
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