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Mashed (Xbox)

(Also known as "Drive to Survive") Mashed will allow up to four players to duke it out in a gladiatorial type racing battle in which you "mash" your opponents into submission. Featuring a top down perspective, the game will give players access to a variety of weapons as they compete on any of the game's 13 diversified environments. In a unique twist to the combat-driving genre, defeated players will be able to launch missile and other attacks on their still competing components, which should provide an outstanding opportunity for revenge and create some bad blood between players! [Supersonic]

Empire Interactive
Racing, Driving
Players: 4
RP (Rating Pending)
Developer: Supersonic
Released June 25, 2004

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

72 / 100

Critic Reviews

82	Xbox World Australia Mashed is one of those rare games that are less about whiz-bang graphics and symphonic sound scores, and all about gameplay.
81	Computer and Video Games Of course multiplayer mode is terrific in Mashed, mainly because it is such a laugh. It's more of an occasion if you make the shortcut, of which Mashed has many. You'll have more satisfaction taking out friends with the likes of twin-mounted cannons, flame-throwers and mines.
80	RewiredMind Mashed scores low marks for originality, but goes straight to the top of the class for effort, execution and good old-fashioned fun. Addictive stuff.
80	Times Online Mashed may not scoop plaudits for delivering the most spectacular crash sequences, the loudest explosions or the most accurate racetracks, but it does enough to provide an entertaining diversion from more serious sporting events in the real world.
80	Edge Magazine A foolproof, if familiar, recipe for dazzling multiplayer entertainment. [Aug 2004, p.101]
80	MS Xbox World If you like "Micro Machines," than you are going to love this game as it is a major improvement on a winning formula and will keep you entertained with your friends for many hours.
80	Total Video Games The essential dynamics, the controlling of these little pent up bullet power cars, is nothing short of thrilling although there is a number of little quirky problems that spoil what feels like the perfect isometric 3D experience.
80	Gamer.tv Simply great fun and never boring.
80	3DAvenue Mashed shows that all that is really needed to create a great non-simulation racing game is unique modes, arcade style physics and a mission like structure to keep players coming back for more.
70	EuroGamer If only Supersonic had tweaked its camera system, delivered a few more tracks and considered online play, we might be talking about a must have game, as opposed to merely a highly recommended one.
70	Sydney Morning Herald Pure racing fun at its most uncomplicated and addictive...The only flaw spoiling the party is a camera that often limits your view and causes unnecessary crashes and frustration.
70	Game Informer Taps into something almost primal in appeal - blowing your friends' cars up is always fun. [May 2005, p.113]
60	GameSpot AU If you've got plenty of players always on hand who want simple gameplay and lots of action, then Mashed is OK, but if you're predominantly a single-player gamer, then we'd suggest you look elsewhere.
51	TotalGames.net And though Mashed is presenting itself as a multiplayer racer the computer AI (for those with no friends, not much cash and awful taste in games) is bizarre - sometimes pixel perfect and at others completely incompetent. Against friends it isn't much better, thanks to the dodgy handling and the sometimes unforeseen results of a minor clip.
48	Official Xbox Magazine It often makes you want to run yourself off the road to end the misery. [May 2005, p.86]