Well, you probably deserve it.
I imagine it happened quite by accident. Though the graphics aren't to be sniffed at, the game does hint slightly at rushed game design. Empire are a small games company, heck, supersonic are even smaller. Nowadays you can't crimp out any decent games without someone like EA rocking up and breathing down your neck, throwing boxes to check down your throat. Let's get one thing straight, without the multi player this game would suck so much proverbial ass, it would have disappeared into nothingness. This is a game that's central nervous system is based on the idea of crashing four guys in a room and gluing them to their sweaty controllers. The single player is flawed out of its balls. The learning curve pendulums from stupidly easy to rancidly brain-achingly difficult from event to event. I don't know, maybe its just me but I went through a good two dual shocks before I finished it. This is a game that will send completists into fits of anger. Seriously, this game is hard as truck. But the problem is, it is so hard that you realise that this game wasn't even beta tested, it probably wasn't even considered. The single player feels thrown together like a shitty trifle. Which is odd, because the multiplayer feels like something you've known your entire life, and suddenly got reminded of. There isn't much to say that hasn't already been said about it to be honest. Emotions range from adrenaline fired glee, to rage, to hubris, to shame, and back to glee again. It's just toy cars with guns, its like being five years old. It really is that good. Honestly, if you haven't played this, you haven't lived. If you have played it, what the hell are you reading this for, go call your mates up and play it some more. You won't stop for a week. The genius simplicity of it is quite extraordinary, so extraordinary in fact that you wonder why nobody thought to do it before, and why no one has done it since. Empire probably came up with it in about two seconds, punted it out in less. And it was forgotten. Shit. Even though I still think it was made by accident by some drunk people, boy am I glad that it was. So will you be. Get it. Now.