Review: Driving School Original (Nintendo Switch)
Driving School Original features some amazing environments like cities, country roads, highways, deserts, mountains, etc. You can drive a manual transmission with clutch and stick shift or keep to the classic automatic gearbox. Use a virtual steering wheel or any other control options that suit your needs.
Pros:
- Nice graphics.
- 1.2gb download size.
- Driving simulator gameplay.
- Touchscreen support.
- Online Leaderboards,
- Own achievements system.
- Settings-metric, gearbox, arcade mode, and stability.
- Two modes-free rides and career.
- 19 maps ranging from San Francisco, Ireland to Tokyo and Liverpool.
- 4 driving views- lose, far, interior and bumper.
- Career-each map has a handful of levels (objectives) you earn bronze, silver and gold medals based off performance.
- Multiplayer Modes: Racing, Free Ride & Catch the Flag.
- damage system.
- Exp is earned and lost for following the rules of the road. Signaling, stopping, etc will give or take exp. Exp is also the currency.
- Dozen or so cars to drive. No official names but you can make out which car is which and each has its own stats.
- Garage-view cars and spend exp on new customization options for your car like paint jobs, wheels, and tinted windows.
- Different weather types like rain and sun, night and day.
- Freeride- pick a city and drive.
- Actions-wipers, indicators, horn, lights, gears, cruise control, and ignition.
- Freeride doesn’t have exp penalties.
- Decent loading times.
- Easy to learn.
Cons:
- No tutorial on either the controls or the rules of the road.
- Can be hard to get your car to a complete stop and moves in cutscenes.
- Hard to keep the speed steady without using cruise control constantly.
- In the bumper view, you cannot look around.
- Out of car views are still too close and obstructive.
- No hand brake.
- Free ride-can’t earn exp.
- Bad hit detection and crashing will then have cars behind driving straight into you over and over.
- More arcade than a simulator.
- No stats or a sense of progress.
