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“Demolition Racer”
Developer: Pit Bull Syndicate
Publisher: Infogrames
System: PC/PlayStation
Grade: C+/B
There really isn’t a whole lot
that’s more tun than just smacking
race cars into the wall until they
don’t run any more.
Demolition derbies have
become great spectacles, where
people come and watch to see the
combination of skill and luck that
lets one car keep running until the
end.
Now is about time for you to get
.in that car.
“Demolition Racer” has its ups
and downs, but mostly, it’s about the
ups.
At first glance, it might seem
like a standard race, but in fact, the
number of points you have at the
end also makes a big impact on your
score.
Say, for example, you finish 5th
without even scratching another car
-you’ll come in last. Now, say you
come in 5th with a total of 800
points from ramming cars into
walls, dropping your car on top of
someone else’s and rear-ending any
one who gets in your way - those
points will be multiplied, and you’ll
probably finish first.
It’s not just about the race. It’s
about who you trash along the way.
1 he game otters up to 16 cars on
the track at any given time and,
eventually, 16 different cars, includ
ing a van and a hearse.
Explosions are nice* and
crunchy, with a “death from above”
award being handed out when you
drop your car on others.
file ability to trash others at will
makes for endless amounts of fun,
and the joy of slamming another car
into the wall ruthlessly is a joy hard
to equal.
“Demolition Racer” is out on
both PC and on PlayStation, and a
lot of you might be asking why the
PC version got a lower grade. Well,
there are a couple of reasons.
In both versions, everyone on
the track is driving the same car. For
the PlayStation, this is. completely
understandable - each model is
highly deformable, so having 14
copies of the same model is the only
way to get by high memory usage.
For the PC, this excuse doesn’t hold
up. The PC version should have had
the ability to have one of each type
of car running on the track.
The PC version also doesn’t add
a whole lot to the game. In the
PlayStation version, you and a
friend can go at it head to head. The
PC version doesn’t even have LAN
support, much less Internet play.
What’s up with that?
Ana the high-resolution graph
ics of the PC actually take away
from some of the appeal of the
game. I prefer the murkier
PlayStation - it has grime like these
kind of cars would, and it fits. The
PC version is too clean, too crisp.
On the downside for both ver
sions, however, the game isn’t too
hard, but the replay value is always
there, especially when you and a
friend go at it.
It’s a great game to kill a few
hours with on a Saturday afternoon,
and everyone can use one of those.
- Cliff Hicks
Lullaby For the Working Class
“Song”
Bar/None Records
Grade:A+
In Lincoln, a town known for little
more than its football team, resides one
of the greatest secrets in the music
industry: Lullaby For the Working
Class.
The ensemble names as its inspira
tions groups such as Sonic Yomh,
Metallica and folk guitarists Leo Kotte
and John Fahey. Lullaby cannot be
placed in a single genre of music. Nor
should one wish to label it for fear of
downplaying the immense power the
band’s fragile music conveys.
The music is based around various
stringed instruments (guitar, bass,
banjo, mandolin, dulcimer) and a
steady backbone of conservatively
erratic drums, all accented by long
winded harmonies from brass instru
ments.
If you didn’t know better, you would
think the band was intent on living an
acoustic lifestyle, shunning modern
technology and the capitalistic empire
of the music industry.
In fact, the members of Lullaby own
their own studio, Whoopass, and record
label, Saddle Creek, which lays claim to
local musicians who hold the same cre
ative philosophies.
Though die group has no set line-up
of musicians, Ted Stevens’ lazy, impas
sioned vocals paint the faded pictures
on all tracks of the band’s latest release,
modestly titled “Song.”
Mike Mogis submits most of the
stringed instrumental segments along
with his brother, bassist A. J. Mogis.
The songs are drawn together by an
observant percussionist, Shane
Aspegren, whose reactions are as quick
as the swiftest jazz drummer and whose
ear is as attentive as the most delicate
conductor.
While listening to “Song,” one can
become frustrated attempting to pick
apart the complicated compositions - or
one can simply lean back and enjoy the
poetry and musicianship.
No track feels unfinished, but, at the
same time, no track is excessively
mixed or contained by overzealous
artists. The tones are pure, the arrange
ments are genius and the entire picture
is strongly emotional.
Lullaby For the Working Class
needs to be heard by every ear at some
point. The creativity of this local crew is
boundless.
“Song” begins and ends with a
sound that is hard to place, yet is sooth
ingly familiar. The sound is a sample of
how the band’s tour van sounds as it
travels the highways of the Midwest. It
creates the most fitting bookend t^one
of the most intriguing albums this year.
Do not miss a chance to experience
Lullaby for yourself.
-Andrew’ Shaw
Internet site offers
lessons in dancing
DANCE from page 13
second time. Finally, we gave it a shot,
and to my surprise, it wasn’t that bad. I
was actually dancing. Now, I wasn’t
Fred Astaire of anything. I wasn’t even
Fred Flintstone. But I was dancing
nonetheless.
Inspired by our initial success, we
set out to master other moves associat
ed with the waltz. We got as far as the
turning waltz (only the second move)
when we decided to skip the rest and
move directly on to the coup de gras of
bustamove.com’s arsenal of dances -
the Salsa.
Now, the Salsa is historically one of
the most sultry, sensual and exotic
danees around, so it’s not something
you want to screw up. Luckily, before
diving into the dance, www.busta
move.com fills you in on some impor
tant information. Take this excerpt for
example:
“ifou may notice the hips moving
around on our animated instructors.
The hip movement is called ‘Cuban
motion,’ but don’t worry about it now.
There is plenty of time to work on that
later (we will have a ‘Cuban motion’
workshop coming soon).”
More than anything, the idea of
“Cuban motion” scared us, so we just
started with the basics and went from
there. Again the diagrams and the ani
mated figures fully illustrated the sub
tle elements of each move and made it
pretty easy to get going.
After about 15 minutes, we were
already doing a side step with a spin,
and by the time we got done, we were
amped to learn more. But we were
also pretty tired, so we just watched
television.
Overall, www.bustamove.com is a
pretty easy way to learn dapce basics.
The examples are very thorough in
their instruction. There is a strong
emphasis on developing style, which
is nice because no one wants to look
like a jabroni on the dance floor. To
keep one from becoming a dork, the
site includes a “Hall of Shame” sec
tion that shows tasteless adaptations
of each dance.
One of the main detractors from
the site is that tHere is no music play
ing while you’re dancing. For Pyeatt
and me, this meant chanting “one,
two, three” or “cha, cha, cha” over and
over. It does, however, list examples of
good music to use for each dance and
has a way to order it online.
The other problem is the simple
fact that without a trained instructor
watching over you, it’s hard to realize
exactly what you’re doing wrong.
That being said, the basics are still
pretty easy to get the hang of, so if
you’re too shy to take lessons or lack
time, www.bustamove.com is a good
way to ditch the wallflowers and blow
up a dance floor.
And to keep America on its toes,
www.bustamov&.com is constantly
adding new moves and entire dances.
Maybe someday they’ll even add
the “digger.” .
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