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"Euro Racing"

Amiga games really aren’t something that I’ve gotten into except in the last couple of years. What I’ve found is that the Amiga has a tendency to have some pretty good looking and playing games, though they lack some depth and the difficulty can be a little too high for my own personal taste in some areas. With 1000 Miglia, you take on the role of one of several different racecar drivers from the early days of racing. Through snowy fields and over bright sunny country roads, you’ll take on the task of cross-country racing complete with mechanical problems and unfair racing!

There really isn’t much of a story here and what you’re facing is a cross-country race with one of several different racecars. Now, none of the drivers from what I can find have any sort of back-story to them, but you will find that each of the drivers has a certain set of attributes that will either help or hinder them throughout the course of the race. The biggest part to understanding the game is just to work with what you have going on and pick the driver that is best suited for what you want him to do. You don’t have to worry about turbo options or tires, just all out racing through the countryside.

-The Game Play-

As with most racing games, you simply have to choose the path that is best suited for you and race through it without crashing or getting too far behind the rest of the pack. One of the more interesting features that the game has to offer though is that when you create your drivers, you are working with a pair of them and at some points a team. At different waypoints, you can switch up your drivers and work with different attributes during the race. This is an interesting way to have a racing game in which the drivers can determine the outcome of the game that you have in the car at any given time.

Control really isn’t a problem in which you simply use the keyboard to move your car around the track. You have a layout for the different gears and the acceleration as well as the braking so there isn’t anything that you’ll have to stress in order to learn. Now, the hardest part of the game is simply working with the errors that come in with the car. You’ll find that from time to time the car will screw up and it will cost your valuable minutes if you don’t have a driver that is worth a damn on mechanics. All of these small instances is what makes this a cool racing game with the realism that is involved here!

-The Visuals-

As I’ve said before, I’ve seen some pretty impressive things on the Amiga and this game is no exception to the rule. You have plenty of places throughout the game and locations that are well detailed as well as beautifully colored to effect the different aspects of weather and otherwise. You’ll find that the snow falls in some of the later races as well as the neat repair screens all come together to make for an impressive display of visuals that you might not expect. All in all you have something that is visually as well as mechanically sound to play through and well worth you time.

-The Audio-

The audio that you find here on the other hand isn’t anything too spectacular and in all reality there isn’t much that you’ll find to listen to through the races. The sound effects that are featured here seem to only have a little bit of depth to them and tend to drone into the background after too long. If you put the constant race theme and the sound effects together, you have something that you can listen to for a little while, but not something that you would want to listen to for more than twenty minutes at a time!

-The Verdict-

1000 Miglia is a surprising racing game that I found to be rather enjoyable save for the lack of audio that came with it. Though this racing game is outdated by a long shot, there is something to be said for the old style checkpoint racing that is featured here in this title. Although I really couldn’t tell you where to pick this up, if you do happen to see it at a garage sale or even on E-Bay, it is well worth the money spent to pick it up. Solid visuals as well a solid game play and control function make it a top game to have for your Amiga system.



Reviewer's Score: 8/10 | Originally Posted: 09/27/02, Updated 09/27/02