Racer

Reviewed by: DeathDude

Positive Points: Different modes
Fair number of tracks
2 player multiplayer

Negative Points: Tough computer opponents
Some strange sound effects

Genre: Racing

Size: 15 804 KB

Multiplayer: Hot Seat

Requirements: Windows

Questionable content: 13+ Blood

Editor rating: 4.5

Homepage: None

Download location: Hosted at AR (Leave download location blank)

Original Archive location: http://www.caiman.us/scripts/fw/f460.html

Prepare yourself for another fast racing experience. This time around, there is more modes for you to check out, harder opponents to challenge and all around it’s a different kind of racing game. Well not that different, you still have a set number of laps and different opponents to challenge, there is much more to do in this racing game, where each challenge will keep you on your toes and make sure you race to win at any cost. There is many different modes, multiplayer, plenty of tracks to check out, and many different cars to use in your quest to become the racing champion of the world.

Once you start the game, head on down to the settings, to change such things as your name, graphics and audio, tweak them to your liking. Next, pick your game mode of choice. You have different modes to choose from, there is career mode where you embark on a journey from humble beginnings, well in racing terms that is, with a modest car, as you enter different tournaments, win the cash from placing well at this tournaments, and buying new cars and parts for your vehicles. There is also training mode, where you can practice on any tracks, with whatever car you’d like against a certain number of opponents, certain number of laps and also whether you’d like to race in the day time or night time. All these options are customizable in this mode. The next mode is essentially the same. Finally there is cup mode, which challenges you to race in a small tournament for the prize of that brand new gold trophy. 

It was good to see quite a bit of variety in this game. With the different modes of racing that you can pursue, this game will take some time to complete, especially career mode, where there is a fair amount of tournaments and challenges you can enter. The training mode as well will give you the practice you need against your opponents and also allow you to get a good feel of the different cars (which are all licensed real world cars) and how they control. There are also a sizeable number of tracks that are available. Not a lot and some are similar, but still a fair amount that will challenge you’re racing skills in each of the different modes. What is also intriguing is the whole day/night concept, which does not change the game much, other than externally, but still it looks nifty and you do not see this feature in many freeware racing titles.

It was also nice to see that a hot seat multiplayer option was included for this game, as it just adds to the numerous features that are already available in this racing game.

Still, the computer opponents were pretty tough on the default difficulty, and they are quite the pro racers, who will not let you make many mistakes, otherwise you will quickly fall to last place, however after a few rounds with them, you will get used to them. Also, some of the sound effects that were used in the game seemed a bit odd, and sometimes a bit much as well. I can understand that the developers were trying to mimic the outside courses with such sound effects as animals yelling and so on, but sometimes it can get quite loud hearing each of these yell as you race.

Nevertheless, this was a fun racing game and it has quite a bit to offer. If you’re looking for a good challenge, look no further than this title. So check out Racer and see it for yourself.