ScreamRide

Capsule ComputersAndrew Day

9/10

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Pure XboxKen Barnes

9/10

ScreamRide is thrilling, addictive, fun, enjoyable, well-crafted, rewarding, challenging, and has the potential to go on to be a long and successful franchise. It isn't just about holding on to your hat as you fly down a vertical drop, building the biggest coaster you can, or trying to hold on to your lunch as you hit an inversion at 120mph. There's thought, the tools for a community to spring up around it, and lots of longevity here, and at really is only some very minor niggles that stops ScreamRide from picking up perfect marks.

IGNMiranda Sanchez

8.2/10

Screamride’s three jobs allow you to play and pass its thrillride levels in a variety of ways, but I reached the greatest satisfaction when I discovered the perfect way to traverse a track, build a coaster, or demolish a string of buildings in ScreamRider and Demolition Expert modes. Although career mode suffers from uneven difficulty and some situational camera issues, I happily replayed levels to improve my score sheet and climb the leaderboard, or just endlessly tinker with the Sandbox mode.

Worth PlayingBrian Dumlao

8/10

ScreamRide is a roller-coaster sim that fuses creation, destruction and addictive action into an exhilarating reinvention of the sandbox-creation genre.

Attack of the FanboyDean James

A melting pot of old and new, Screamride provides players with not only classic coaster building, but also the ability to ride upon those tracks and then destroy everything around them across hours of endless fun.

Xbox AchievementsLee Bradley

80/100

Free from Kinect, Frontier has been able to deliver a game that revels in split-second timing and precise controls. The result is the studio’s best Xbox game in years that's a brilliantly fun coaster-racing, track-building, building destroying experience in its own right. ScreamRide feels like a reaction to the studio’s Kinect work. Where Microsoft’s motion-detecting device demanded games without precise input, ScreamRide revels in it. The result is a joy.

GamingBoltAndy Brice

7/10

A novel title but, just like the real thing, it’s best in short bursts.

TheSixthAxisDominic L

6/10

So much of what Screamride does it gets right, with the necessary gameplay hooks to see you repeat sections again and again, just to score a few more points to move you up the online leaderboards or achieve a perfect level rating. It also offers a relatively good degree of variety, and across its fifty or so levels there’s enough content to keep you interested before you turn to building your own creations. However, there are some troubling flaws with the camera, and the construction tools, though potent, are not as immediately accessible as they should be.

TechRaptorAlex Santa Maria

5.5/10

There is fun to be had with ScreamRide's creation tools, but it's buried under a long slog of uninteresting gameplay modes and the faintest hints of a narrative.

VideogamerTom Orry

5/10

As a downloadable £15 game some of Screamride's issues could have been easily overlooked, but at double that price it's a harder ride to sell.

GameLusterSimon Smith

0/10

I was nervous coming into Screamride and this is not the games fault by any respect, instead it is history which turns a moment of potential optimism into doom and gloom. Frontier Developments made this game, and I have been burned recently by this developer with their poor excuse for Zoo Tycoon and this makes Screamride worrisome. But still I went ahead and looked at Screamride all because I could not judge the developer for one mistake, surely Screamride could be better and it is.

Press StartMehdi Zadnane

Unscored

Whilst the main campaigns of the game are quite limited in length, users interested in custom content can unleash and share their imagination by creating custom levels. The sandbox mode gives you the ability to use all of your unlocked content to create levels with custom tracks, structures and objectives, which lengthen the game by quite a bit, but only if you’re interested in either building or downloading custom content. Sandbox mode is quite extensive, and in some ways it’s the saving grace of a game that really consists of a very small amount of content considering the pricing.