Armed with an arsenal of main and special weapons, shield and a carefully
watched fuel gauge, players battle gravity and inertia through 37 planets that each feature environmental dangers, enemies and other obstacles.
If I stomped on the gas pedal, I could literally
watch the fuel gauge go down!
If I have to do any amount of city driving I could literally
watch the fuel gauge go down as I cruise around, part of this could be due to a faulty idle air control valve that has never been replaced and is notorious for failing on this particular model of Jeep.
After
watching the fuel gauge drop to half a tank after our first hundred miles of driving, we knew it wasn't going to be good, and an extra hundred miles on the freeway didn't improve matters much.
Not exact matches
Watch it a second time and observe the
fuel gauge rise slightly after the sprint.
There was no display to
watch the energy flow amongst the engine, the battery pack, and the regenerative brakes (it's included with the navigation option, which this car didn't have), but I was able to monitor instant and average
fuel economy via a readout in the
gauge cluster; there's also a light that comes on to indicate when you're in EV mode.
Using the thumb buttons on the steering wheel, the driver can toggle between the various
gauges, track
fuel economy information, and
watch horsepower and torque meters.
For example, when a car's
fuel gauge points to E, that is a reason to bring it home for remediation, and furnishing student apartments in my recollection involved
watching the old man carry the bar fridge up the stairs and tastefully laughing at his struggles.