Sunday Drivers

Reviewed by: DeathDude

Positive Points: Quite a variety of vehicles
Interesting "borrowed" tunes
Easy to play

Negative Points: Cars bouncing off each other
Have to get 1st place to move on

Genre: Racing

Size: 4.96 MB

Requirements: Windows, minimum 32MB Video Card

Questionable Content: None

Editor rating: 4.1

Homepage: http://members.xoom.alice.it/ermesjr/

Download location: http://xoomer.alice.it/ermesjr/down.html

As is the case with most games in this particular genre, there is the idea that in order to solve problems, or perhaps to make a point, but who really knows. However, the idea in this game is to take all the worst Sunday drivers, put them all together with their vehicle of choice and race around a bunch of tracks for victory!  So as you can imagine it'll be a race full of crazy drivers, reckless turns and much more, which is what you get in Sunday Drivers. Also you get the opportunity to unlock some unique vehicles, get some interesting musical numbers to listen to while you race and overall is just an easy game to sit down and start playing away.

Controls in the game can be played either with a keyboard or with a gamepad if you prefer. Steer with the left and right arrow keys, accelerate with the space bar and use items that you pick up along the race with the control key. Oh and there is no brake key, cause that is just how crazy this racing game is. Well that or because they are such bad drivers as the game states then there is no need for the brake.

When you first start the game though, you only have access to one car and one track. In order to unlock more vehicles and more tracks, you have to play 1st place in each of the tracks you play. As you do, you will unlock some better vehicles and some more interesting tracks that will test your driving skills. There are 15 tracks for you to unlock divided up into five different worlds of three tracks each. As well, the game borrows some interesting game music from such series as Super Mario Kart, which is pretty cool as it fits with the game. Especially with the cartoon look, the game is going for, which is albeit it a bit not too high on the quality area but still looks generally all right. The vehicles moreso look better than some of the environments.

The one element of the game that did not like too much, was the fact that every time you hit an opponent, your car bounces off them. Just do not like that sort of idea of the whole bouncing off a car. Can get especially annoying if you are trying to pass a car and they are blocking your way and you just keep pushing them forward. In addition, with the added challenge of having to get a 1st place finish in order to unlock the next track thought could have been tweaked. Maybe first or second place finish, but this can be quite challenging, especially in some of the later stages of the game.

All in all though this was a fun racing game for the time I played it and definitely gives you the incentive to try and unlock all 15 tracks and all the vehicles. So check it out, it is called Sunday Drivers, see it for yourself.