Fatal Inertia
Fatal Inertia is a Xbox 360 racing game released in 2007 developed by Koei Tecmo Games. It centers on driving and route control, route judgment, and speed and overtaking management, with controls and information arranged around the Xbox 360 wired or wireless controller's twin sticks, analog triggers, directional pad, and face buttons.
- AI score · out of 10
- 6.3 / 10
About this game
Fatal Inertia is a Xbox 360 racing game centered on driving and route control, route judgment, and speed and overtaking management. Tracks raise pressure through corners, rivals, and time targets, with progress divided into stages, tasks, matches, or growth milestones that make immediate goals understandable. Its value depends on whether these rules continue to create judgment and room for mastery rather than on length, sales, or series recognition. Short campaigns are judged by repeat-challenge value, while longer ones are judged by variety, pacing, and recovery after failure. Speed, track boundaries, and vehicle feedback determine driving readability, while HD video, DVD streaming, surround audio, HDD installs, and television-distance interfaces need to keep action, state, and text readable. The genre-specific limitation is that visibility, collisions, steering precision, wheel support, or loading can limit consistency. Platform conditions also include disc and HDD installation, storage devices, controller batteries, video connections, resolution and frame rate, Kinect space and calibration, and retired online services affect the current release. This description covers only this platform release and does not import features or conveniences from remasters, emulators, or other console editions.
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Xbox 360AI review
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Inventive combat racing with frustrating handling.
Fatal Inertia contains more imaginative combat-racing ideas than its first impression suggests. Four hovercraft classes trade agility against toughness, while magnet battles, elimination events and more straightforward velocity races change the tactical emphasis. Icy bays, volcanoes and wooded passes provide attractive scenery. The act of racing is less convincing. Excessively floaty physics combine with narrow turns to make control feel punitive, and the speedometer promises more velocity than the motion communicates. Many tracks are too short to exploit their locations. A direct Xbox 360 review reports quick loading and workable online races in its launch-era tests, but that observation does not establish present server availability. This score concerns the original 2007 Xbox 360 version, not the later revised PlayStation 3 EX release. Players willing to tolerate demanding inertia for unusual weapons may find a few exciting contests. Those seeking immediate, fluid high-speed racing are likely to be frustrated before they appreciate the ideas.
Strengths
- Magnet battles, craft classes and scenery.
Weaknesses
- Floaty handling, brief tracks and weak speed sensation.
Who it is for: Racing fans tolerant of demanding hovercraft physics.
Play notes: Original Xbox 360 game; current online status unknown.
View scoring basis
| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension Modes add variety without resolving course-design frustration. | Reviewed | 6.0 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Combat ideas are stronger than racing feel. | Reviewed | 6.2 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Location art impresses more than motion. | Reviewed | 7.2 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Platform usability is qualified by difficult handling; current online status is not inferred. | Reviewed | 6.1 / 10 | Not provided |
Review sources
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Core information
- Developer
- Koei Tecmo Games
- Publisher
- Vivendi Games
- Release date
- 2007
- Platforms
- Xbox 360
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- Not provided
- Offline minimum players
- Not provided
- Offline maximum players
- Not provided
- Online minimum players
- Not provided
- Online maximum players
- Not provided
- Categories
- Racing · Primary genre
- Tags
- Pick-up and PlayDodgeThird PersonReplayableSolo-friendlyMain Story Under 10 HoursPlayer versus PlayerDriving and RacingShort SessionsFast-paced
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
- Not provided
- Standalone
- Not provided
- Age ratings
- Not provided
- Play modes
- MultiplayerSingle player
- Perspectives
- Third personFirst person
Release editions
- Xbox 360Worldwide2007
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Sources
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