San Francisco Rush 2049 for Game Boy Color

"With the high-flying antics of the Rush series on the N64 a handheld impracticality, San Francisco Rush 2049 for the GBC version turns out to be a solid, if conventional, three-quarters-view racer. When developers bungle Game Boy racers, it's typically because they don't let players see far enough down the road. Fortunately, Handheld Games (MTV Sports: T.J. Lavin's Ultimate BMX, Triple Play 2001) aced this basic objective. Play control is good, provided you don't choose the extremely squirrelly Point option. Unfortunately the selection menu doesn't disclose that some cars handle much better than others, so you'll have to figure out each one's capabilities yourself. Handheld Games adeptly used the GBC's palette to create five vivid if simply designed cars. The nine fairly short tracks offer unrelieved vistas of steel and cement. There's nothing San Francisco about the settings at all; no Golden Gate Bridge, Lombard Street or Chinatown. A little sightseeing would have been fun. "