The control is still extremely simple - you use one button for forward motion and one for reverse. The audio effects are pretty much what you'd expect from a Destruction Derby game, complete with some pretty good sounds of metal grinding against metal.

Beyond that, the game moves well, and the split screen doesn't detract too much from the game's presentation. My favorite graphical effect is when sparks shoot off your car during a collision. Graphically, Destruction Derby 64 surpasses the old PlayStation games by quite a bit - not that that is a particularly hard thing to do, considering the age of the PlayStation series. Destruction race takes place on the racetrack, and it's a simple fight to the finish line. Points are also earned for blocking attacks and getting your team's flag back. You must somehow manage to get your opponents' flag back to your base to earn points. Capture the flag splits four players into two teams. The bomb is passed from car to car as you tag back and forth. The game also has multiplayer-specific modes. Arcade mode is the game's exhibition mode, letting you race any track with no strings attached. Much like in the previous games, the race modes will force you to get into a lot of wrecks to earn points, but it will also require you to keep your car in good enough shape to actually finish the race with a decent ranking. The world championship puts you through demolition races and arena battles in a multirace quest for the best. Now, the scoring is centered on causing big wrecks, killing opposing cars, and reaching checkpoints in the racing mode. Head-on impacts with enemy cars did little to boost your score. The game's damage system used to revolve around the distance you could make the other car spin. While the game bears the same name and concept as the old PlayStation versions of the game, there's been a lot of changes, for better and worse. Now, THQ has picked up the pieces that Psygnosis left behind by delivering the first N64 version of the game in Destruction Derby 64.

DD2 was highly anticipated, but it ultimately failed to truly expand on the original. In its day, DD looked great and did the little things that we all hoped the newest and greatest platform would do. The Destruction Derby series is one of the lines of games that helped define the PlayStation in its youth.

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