Alarm for Cobra 11: Burning Wheels (Crash Time 2)

Alarm for Cobra 11: Burning Wheels (also known as Crash Time 2) is a racing game that allows you to explore a huge city and participate in a variety of missions, in order to fight crime and inspire some fear in the ranks of highway criminals. Thus, you can escort vehicles around town and solve a multitude of other tasks, most of which involve a car and dizzying speeds.

Although your purpose throughout the game is to participate in cases featuring various types of criminals, you are also part of the problem, due to the fact that you are bound to cause some mayhem on the streets of the city. Thus, the high speeds and the crowded traffic can result in quite a few crashes, all of which cause significant damage to public property. To illustrate this, the game informs you about the value of the caused destruction with every opportunity.

As far as the actual gameplay is concerned, you are pretty much free to drive around the city for as long as you want, since the missions can be postponed indefinitely. Once you do accept one, however, the game transforms into an adrenaline-infused experience, due to the creative scenarios that you get to be involved in. Hence, whether you are following another vehicle, or trying to reach a certain place in the city in a fixed amount of time, you are always with the foot on the gas pedal.

Since it is almost impossible to avoid crashing during one of the high-speed runs around the city, your car will have quite a few close encounters with the environment and the nearby traffic. To reflect this on your vehicle, the game uses a very refined physics engine, which is capable of depicting a detailed damage model, complete with scratches and falling wheels, in the case of a more decisive impact.

The graphic engine offers the game a high-end appearance, thanks to the high-resolution textures and convincing post-processing effects, such as depth-of-field and motion blur, which come into play at higher speeds. The environment is very detailed as well, since even the street textures express quality and refinement to improve the overall aesthetics and experience.

In the end, Alarm for Cobra 11: Burning Wheels can be the source for endless hours of fun and entertainment, especially in the career mode. It is also very well polished from a technical point of view, making it a real pleasure to cruise around the city just to admire the landscapes.