The Dukes of Hazzard: Racing for Home

The Dukes of Hazzard: Racing for Home is a racing video game published by SouthPeak Interactive that was released for the PlayStation in 1999. The game was later released for Game Boy Color and Microsoft Windows in 2000. It is based on the television show, The Dukes of Hazzard. Waylon Jennings, James Best, Ben Jones, Sonny Shroyer, and Tom Wopat reprised their characters by providing their voices to the PC and PlayStation versions of the game. A sequel titled The Dukes of Hazzard II: Daisy Dukes It Out was released in 2000.

Developer(s)Sinister Games (PS/PC)
Spellbound (GBC)
Publisher(s)SouthPeak Interactive (US)
Ubi Soft (EU)
SeriesThe Dukes of Hazzard
Platform(s)Game Boy Color, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation
ReleasePlayStation
  • NA: November 30, 1999
  • EU: 2000
Windows
  • EU: June 9, 2000
  • NA: October 10, 2000
Game Boy Color
  • NA: November 7, 2000
  • EU: 2000
Genre(s)Racing

Gameplay

The player plays as Bo and Luke Duke who is racing to pay off the Duke farm. The player must play through missions that include Bo and Luke outrunning Rosco and Enos, and saving their cousin Daisy Duke from Black Jack Perril who wants revenge on their uncle Jesse Duke.

Reception

The Game Boy Color version received "favorable" reviews, and the PlayStation version received "mixed" reviews, while the PC version received "unfavorable" reviews, according to video game review aggregator GameRankings.[1][2][3]

Chris Carle of IGN said of the PlayStation version, "The missions can get tedious, even though some are truly challenging. The stunt physics are fun and the various vehicles are a hoot. All in all, it is a decent ride while it lasts." Carle also criticized the game's cutscenes: "The characters look downright goofy. Uncle Jesse resembles Dr. Zaius from Planet of the Apes and Luke Duke could easily be on display at your local zoo."[18]

Scott Steinberg of the same website praised the PC version's three multiplayer modes, but also said, "It's hard to decide which is worse, primitive 3D visuals, ugly ass rendered movies or the non-interactive backgrounds. Thank heaven the vehicle models don't suck." He also praised the soundtrack, voice-overs and Waylon Jennings' narration, but criticized the game's sound effects, as well as the gameplay, stating that the General Lee "turns like a concrete mixer. If you can keep it in a straight line for more than fifteen seconds, you might enjoy the varied styles of play."[17]

Craig Harris said of the Game Boy Color version, "The graphics [...] are downright hideous. Everything about the imagery -- cars, land texture, buildings, cutscene characters -- have an ugly, dithered and blocky construction, and it makes the game that much more difficult to look at when driving around Hazzard County. [...] The game doesn't offer anything more than just driving levels, but the missions vary enough to continue through the adventure to the very end of the tale in Hazzard County."[16]

Adam Pavlacka reviewed the PlayStation version of the game for Next Generation, rating it two stars out of five, and stated that "A mediocre racing game that survives on the license alone. Barely."[20]

Kevin Rice reviewed the PC version of the game for Next Generation, rating it one star out of five, and stated that "The README file begins, 'We hope you enjoy playing the game as much as we've enjoyed making it for you.' We can only assume this is some kind of sick joke."[19]

References
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  18. Carle, Chris (January 6, 2000). "[The] Dukes of Hazzard - Racing for Home (PS)". IGN. Retrieved February 21, 2015.
  19. Rice, Kevin (December 2000). "Finals". Next Generation. Vol. 3 no. 12. Imagine Media. p. 145.
  20. Pavlacka, Adam (April 2000). "Finals". Next Generation. Vol. 3 no. 4. Imagine Media. p. 89.
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