Air Race Championship

ABOUT THE ORIGINAL GAME

Air Race Championship gets its hooks into you with a simple, immediate promise: pick a plane, thread it through a wild course, and try to carry more speed through the next turn than your rival. The PlayStation racer has the quick, arcade-minded energy you want from an air-racing game, and its routes refuse to settle for ordinary sky circuits. Cities, caves, rivers, and underwater tunnels give each race a welcome change of scenery.
It is a lean game rather than a sprawling one, but the unlockable planes and tracks give Grand Prix races a reason to matter beyond a single finish line. Time Attack is the right home for anyone who enjoys shaving seconds from a route, while split-screen makes its close, scrappy racing easy to share. If you have affection for the high-speed, imaginative-course approach of Bravo Air Race, this spiritual follow-up is well worth a flight.