Has anyone played, or does anyone own the chocobo racing game (a spin off from chocobo breeding ffVII)

If so, can you recomend it, im thinking of buying it, and tbh i just wanna know what its like before wasting my money and finding out its a load of crap!

I've played it before. It isn't worth the time or money.

Chocobo Racing isn't actually related to FFVII - it's more like Mario Kart with Squaresoft characters, although Cloud (and Squall too, for that matter) do appear as secret characters. It's not a bad game, by any means.

The graphics though, are quite poor even for late-90's PSX game standards, although playing it on a PS2 with the 'smooth polygons' option turned on greatly impproves the graphics.

However, having said that, it is still a fun little title - the music in particular is very good, featuring remixes of many classic Uematsu tunes from earlier (NES/SNES era) FF games, such as FFI's Gulug Volcano and FFII's Sorcerer's Tower, although the only music track from a PSX FF game to feature in it is the battle theme Don't Be Afraid from FFVIII. As well, the character designs are quite close to their FF designs - ranging from Chocobo to Bahamut. The story mode is a little childish though, reminsicent of Yoshi's Island with it's 'pop-up book' backgrounds.

Still, Chocobo Racing is a good game - not nearly as bad as some people make it out to be - but just don't expect it to be an example of gaming perfection.

They should really make a chocobo breeding game! That would be ace! Chocobo Breeding practically made FFVII! Shame about the chocobo racing one though, im not really into racing games, just thought there would be some kind of racing like in FFVII (golden saucer)

What d'ya think?

Well, i would like to play this game, it can be fun! And anyway, these kind of games are just to have fun, nothing serious :)

I heard about it. Didnt look too appealing to me.

I played it and finished it easily. For the fanboys, you can actually unlock cloud on his motorbike, he's fairly fast but nothing compared to the airship. That thing owns on easy tracks.

Anyway, it was worth my time, and yeah it's more of a spinoff of the entire FF series, mainly the first few games, but there is an FF8 track set in Deling City, with an upbeat arrangement of the FF8 battle theme too!

cool, i think square could make a fortune off these little spin ofs!. .Tetra master Triple Triad....Chocobo breeding! etc....

Theres one online but it's a text based game

There is an official online version of Tetra Master, included with the PS2 and PC versions of FFXI (strangely, it was ommited from inclusion with the X-box 360 version).

It costs $1 US a month to play though, so it's not that popular. I play it on occasion myself. It's a fun little time waster (but as if FFXI wasn't one already).

And Square Enix is still milking plenty of gil from the FF spin-off cash cow, you can be sure of that - there is even a FF/Mario crossover basketball game for the DS that has just been released in Japan. The FF juggernaut shows no sign of slowing down.