A rather fun game that can be frustrating at first.
User Rating: 8.2 | Death Rally PC
When I first saw this game I thought it was going to be Need for Speed with weapons attached. And from the first few menu's in the game you'd be hard presses to blame me! So imagine my dissapointment when it was an oldschool top down racer. Don't get me wrong, as its a great and fun game in its own right, but its just not what I expected. Here's hoping for a sequel though ;). You get to choose you're persona, even the great Duke Nukem which is fully sick, because when you win a race you hear one of his once liners "Hail to the King" etc etc. So that's a nifty little thing (too bad its not like NFS though!!). You start off with a VW bug, a little putt putt bang kind of car. Depending on if you've played it before or not, you probably won't win the first round of the beginners circuit (don't even try the higher levels yet!!!), but if you're good you'll get 2nd or 3rd. As you get more money you can buy a pick up truck, a porche, and a suped up car called the "Deliverator." In between races you can buy mods for you car including mines, front bumber spikes, better tires, engines etc etc, so you can upgrade your car even if its a little bomb. There is no storyline in the game, you just keep racing until you get to number 1 position (which is pretty darn hard). When you reach #1 you face off against "The Adversary," a masked racer with a suped up deliverator which is pretty fast. Beat the adversary you get...satisfaction, and the credits. Big wow I know, but its a racing game so you can't expect much. If they did make a sequel however, they could certainly learn a few things from NFS Most Wanted though. All in all, its a pretty good game, a little dissapointing, and frustrating, but its great when you get the hang of it.
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