Room Zoom

Room Zoom: Race for Impact is fast and frenetic, but frustrating, too.
Akin to 1999's Re-Volt, Room Zoom lets you race tiny cars through
supersized environments, barreling through a bathroom, a mad
scientist's lab, and a kitchen, among other locales. You'll grab
power-ups, dodge power tools, blast opponents, and find shortcuts to
make it to the checkered flag first. Room Zoom is simple to pick up and
play and it offers plenty of action, yet the chaotic gameplay and
wildly cluttered tracks can sap the fun out of things as quickly as
they create it.

Small cars zip through supersized environments.

Room Zoom lacks any multiplayer modes, instead pitting you against
artificial intelligence-controlled cars with three ability levels. You
can drive in single races of one to seven laps, though most of the
tracks and cars are initially locked. To unlock them, you'll need to
finish in at least third place on each track as you battle through the
game's championship mode.

In the championship mode, you progress through three groups of four
races, with each race taking place on a different track. You can't save
your progress during each four-race group--you can only save between
races--so once you get started, be prepared to keep playing for a
while. It's a shame the developer ignored the fact that not every gamer
has the time or inclination to play for long stretches. On top of that
problem, you'll find that the tracks don't smoothly ramp-up in
difficulty. Instead, the game randomly mixes easy tracks with a few
that will have you yanking your hair out.

At least the racing is fast and furious, with nary a dull patch. Thanks
to the game's interactive environments, alternate routes, and simple
power-ups (fireballs, shields, and the like), you can go from first
position to sixth and back again before you know what happened. In
fact, things usually get too hectic or confusing. With so many
power-ups and obstacles scattered about, races often end up feeling
like chaotic free-for-alls where luck, not skill, determine the winner.
You'll be driving along, and suddenly all you see are blinding flashes
of light and a bunch of cars--including your own--flying every which
way. You can only guess why. The race circuits themselves can be a bit
confusing, too. Sometimes zipping off the beaten path is allowed as a
valid shortcut, but other times the game forbids it for no apparent
reason and automatically plops you back on the main track.

Odd physics can detract from the fun, too. The various cars you unlock
all handle uniquely, which is certainly a welcome feature, yet
sometimes they bounce off giant tools or juice cartons in dubious ways.
Once in a while, you might even find yourself riding sideways on a wall
as if your tires magically turned to flypaper.

Two cars vie for the lead in a vent shaft.

Room Zoom's circuits sound neat on paper. After all, it's not many
racing games that let you zip between the tines of a pitchfork, weave
among cereal boxes, and perform other surreal stunts. And in fact, the
basic track layouts are pretty well-designed, with plenty of ramps,
tunnels, sudden hairpin turns, and movable and fixed obstacles. On the
other hand, many of the tracks are too similar. Also, the environments
all blur by so quickly that you rarely have time to notice any of their
thematic details. The fact that the graphics are very brightly colored
but are ultimately pedestrian, without any unique flair or
memorability, doesn't help. Sound effects, likewise, leave no
impression beyond that they merely meet the basic requirements: some
generic engine sounds and some generic techno tunes.

Room Zoom suffers from further failings like odd interface bugs. Yet
where Room Zoom really goes off track is its paucity of content. The
game lacks multiplayer and any sort of track editor, and the entire
championship mode can be played in just a couple of hours. Room Zoom
might keep young kids happily occupied for a while, but adult gamers
will wonder why they ever bothered. There's barely enough of interest
to make you want to play once, let alone twice.





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