Posted on: September 21, 2022

DrEbola

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Most atmospheric dystopian racing game

Pod is has such a great forbodding atmosphere. The abandon factory, landscape and mysterious machinery together with the simple story are just great. It runs in very high resolution with nglide, so it looks quite descent, due to the excellent art design. The racing is fun and challenging, only the pinball collisions are kind of sad. There also cheat around. The best one is to simply type "map" during a race, for a map of the course, which is great to discover shortcuts. I wish there was a success to this game. Most scifi racers have lazy floating tracks in the landscape, but here, you actually race in very diverse courses.

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Posted on: July 13, 2024

PinkieSwirl

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Spiele: Rezensionen: 1

Sadly crashes a lot and sound stutters

This was one of the first PC games I ever got as a kid, so seeing it here, I wanted to give it a shot. Even back in the past, the game was not great. Basically, huge tracks with nothing interesting on them. No comments from the AI drivers, e.g., if you crash into them, no items, etc. Most tracks have interesting designs with multiple routs, but without any kind of map, it is easy to take a wrong turn. The car designs are cool, but that's it. That said, I played it as a kid and kind of felt nostalgic, so I wanted to play it again. Sadly, the first 3 launches crashed immediately. On the 4th, it finally started. Everything seemed fine until I started the first race. Then the sound began to stutter horribly. After the race, I tried to adjust some settings, but then it crashed again. It also got unresponsive after trying to quit it through the main menu. So in the end I asked for a refund, it was apparently not meant to be. Rated 3 Stars for nostalgic reasons and because one can actually refund it. I hope you get a better experience reliving this trashy "classic".

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Posted on: July 3, 2025

immortal4ever

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Spiele: 123 Rezensionen: 4

A 3D-accelerated blast from the past

Call it a tech demo. Call it a love letter to 3D-acceleration of the late 90s. Call it a racer with a layer of story. POD is a fast entry into the 3D-accelerated racing games of its time, and while there was an original version which was set for MMX hardware, THIS is the version you want to play. Play the story mode or championship if you want - but definitely explore the tracks, especially those which were exclusive to the 3dfx cards. A fun racer and a great excuse to look at the art and power of the day.

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Posted on: June 26, 2020

Waveform1020

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Spiele: 211 Rezensionen: 1

Still holds up

Proof positive that less is more. All this game has is sick-looking cars, a killer narrative premise, beautiful art direction, and one objective: win the race. And that’s all it needs. Brutally challenging at higher difficulties, viscerally satisfying every time you hit a jump just right or smack an opponent out of your way, and just plain fun. Never mind the PS1-era graphics. This game, to me, illustrates that art direction beats technical perfection every time. Still a treat to look at. Plus, this version comes with all 32 tracks instead of just the original 16. Worth twice the price, easily.

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Posted on: March 17, 2012

49152

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Spiele: 169 Rezensionen: 10

Atmosphere

I've been trying to get this to work on anything later than W95 for years, it's fantastic to see it here. An original take on the apocalypse racer, it blends a trippy, ambient soundtrack with bright and interesting visuals to provide a unique and compelling downbeat atmosphere. The graphical variety can make the tracks confusing at first but their uniqueness helps them stick in the memory. The AI is strikingly better than some modern, AAA racers giving a satisfying level of challenge although individually-named opponents do all drive in the same way. Aggressively, that is. Definitely a good addition to GOG and the games catalogue of anyone kind enough to be reading this.

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