

As good as the online play feature sounds, it's not without flaws. In fact, one of the game's strongest points is the sheer number of features! You can go for a quick drive in a single race, challenge your best times in Time Attack, take on a friend in VS Battle (two player only), check out replays you saved onto your VMU, and of course, the huge online play feature where you can race up to four other players online. Also, each track can be altered in four different ways: normal, reverse, mirror, and mirror reverse. You can edit each track so you can have a variable number of laps and entry cars. And what a way to come home not content with just giving us a straight port of the arcade game, Genki shoves in eight tracks selectable from the get-go: the three original arcade tracks, two tracks from the Saturn Daytona CCE and three brand new tracks. But I can't really express it in typed words, how much it means for this Daytona title to finally come home. it sounds so cliché I should be shot for making such acclaimed standard statements. Despite controls that are a bit touchy and online gameplay that can be awkward, Daytona USA 2001 is the true flagship racing game that we've been waiting for. It seems almost poetic that the finest translation of Daytona should come in the last year before SEGA retires from the hardware tracks. But even with these top racing titles, the Dreamcast was missing its heavy hitter, the superstar, the true flagship racing game that has garnered SEGA fans from both the arcade and console world. Games like Test Drive Le Mans, F355 Challenge, and Metropolis Street Racer surely demonstrate some of the highest quality in racing games to date on the Dreamcast. While the majority of these racing titles may be average, there are a number of standout driving games that really give the gamer an incredible sensation of speed, solid controls, and an overall exciting driving experience. If there's one proud aspect of the Dreamcast's line-up of games it's the impressive number of racing games the system has.
