The sports utility vehicle (SUV) evolved when somebody thought to cross a pickup truck with an army jeep and came up with the Range Rover. SUVs have grown insanely popular because most people think mini-vans are for wimpy people (and they're of course, correct) and SUVs make a nice manly, brutish alternative. I think that's what I was thinking when I got my Cherokee those many years ago. God knows it wasn't so I could climb mountains and ford rivers. My truck has rarely ever even gotten muddy. I mean, who does that? These things are really expensive and it absolutely sucks to ever have to replace or fix anything on them. That's why 4x4 Evolution was a necessary game to make.

Licensed vehicles? Real world SUVs racing through muck and grime, on exotic and cool courses and you'll never have to clean them afterward? Plus the developer behind the revered, and sorely missed, Monster Truck Madness series is making it? It's being developed for the Mac, PC and Dreamcast at the same time and you'll be able to play against players from those platforms online? And it's out in stores now? Huzzah!

Or… not. I for one will be waiting for someone to make that game, because Terminal Reality didn't quite make it. Aside from my general annoyance that they failed to get the Jeep license (“Cherokee people! Cherokee pride!”) they opted to make the game a little too much like good ol' Monster Truck. You can tell that in the first five minutes…