Drome Racers

Drome Racers. It's not exactly an inspiring name, and aptly enough, it is a wholly uninspiring game. Featuring a driving model that can best be described as flaccid, the crux of the game involves tearing around futuristic locations in odd-shaped buggies, and foiling your opponents with a series of unlikely power-ups.

Think WipEout, think Rollcage (it's from the same developer), or alternately don't think at all. Simply throw in every cliche in the book, cobble together some half-arsed storyline with vague allusions to Mad Max, get it on the shelves before the reviews come out and hope that somebody buys it by mistake.

Admittedly, it wouldn't be the worst mistake ever made, but in a field of entertainment that alleges to break boundaries. Drome Racers is barely treading water. Between races, you are given the opportunity to augment your vehicle with a selection of seemingly negligible upgrades, and also to listen to tedious characters droning on about nothing in particular, a solid test of anyone's anger management.

While Drome Racers isn't broken, there is never any threat of originality, and it's a safety-first approach that has yielded an unmemorable game that almost provides the dictionary definition of average.