The trucks are beautifully rendered, and you can waste your money enhancing the appearance of your ride. 4x4 Evo, each with its own fleet of trucks. Gameplay is fantastic. The bots you race against are solid drivers, and they make tough competitors - although they occasionally perform astoundingly stupid maneuvers. Once you finish a race, you're treated to a replay, in which you can watch your favorite moments over and over again.
Network play in both modes is satisfying, but lag can kill an otherwise good race.
Fortunately for those who feel ghettoized, 4x4 Evo's network mode also lets Mac users play with both PC and Sega Dreamcast users. One thing missing from the game is the ability to damage your vehicle. Terminal Reality went to great pains to build an accurate physics model into 4x4 Evo, going so far as to simulate drop tests to see how vehicles will handle. The problem is that you can run head on into a semi at 80 miles per hour and nothing happens to you or your vehicle. In an otherwise accurately simulated world, this inability to do yourself or your machine any harm stands out like a rabbit on the road.