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Posted on: April 12, 2017
AlexPigeon7717
Verified ownerGames: 440 Reviews: 4
Great game, but game breaking bug
Well I really loved this game when I was a kid. I tried this GOG version but when I want to do the championship I randomly blow up (totally random - without being near anything that could blow me up), and the game glitches into an infinite spawn-blow up so processing is impossible, thus this is a game breaking bug I would like someone to tell me how to fix :(
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Posted on: July 16, 2017
gima89
Verified ownerGames: 6 Reviews: 1
Great vintage game, with a nagging bug
What a game! I always feel like getting a nostalgia attack when playing it ;-) No, seriously, it's great as ever. they haven't changed much. A slightly higher resolution and modern online multiplayer mode would have been great. What really bothers me though is a bug on the "gold rush" track: cars keep exploding in an endless loop. When that happens you're forced to quit and restart, the whole championship is lost. Please developers, fix that bug! Thank you.
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Posted on: January 11, 2017
NightHornet
Games: 302 Reviews: 27
A simple, arcade racer
I remember playing "Ignition" quite a few years back and back than this game was pretty adictive. Not so much from the multitude of tracks or vehicles (though it does okay in that department), but from the multiplayer, when me and my friends tended to race against each other before the monitor between some "heavier" multiplayer games like Worms or Heroes. Lets start with the basics - as game description tells you, the game has 7 tracks: farms, snowy mountains, cliffs at the coast, metropolis (I believe it's specifically designated as Tokyo), South-American ruins, vulcanic "wasteland" and wild west style desert. Additionally, upon completing a single player mode, each of these tracks can be raced in reverse (mirror league; a feature that was popular at the time the game was developed), which helps a bit with its replay value. Each track has its own little surprises - there are shortcuts that allows you to get ahead (sometimes hiddens, sometimes in the form where you choose which turn you take) and every race has at least two of those. Aside from that there are other traps that await the racers - falling rocks that flatten your cars (and, once you're "compacted", your controls work in reverse for a while), trains that go right through the track or cliffs that you need to jump over using your car's nitro to name just those most common. Generally each track is quite different from another and they look very nice (taking into account the graphics of its time). Another, string point are the vehicles, not all of them accessible from the start - they're wacky (school bus, a police car, monster truck, medical jeep to name just a few) and truly different, each having statistics different from others. A truck ("Smokey") for example doesn't have speed, but it certainly sticks to the road, the yellow car ("Banana") has good acceleration, while the black sports car ("Vegas") is quick, but certainly can easily fall off its course. Each car also has nitro that is slowly recharging itself. At any time you can punch it to give your vehicle an extra boost (often adviced when jumping over cliffs), but you should use it wisely. A bonus is that ANY of these vehicles is as good as the others in the right hands (this was tested by me and my friends) - even the slow ones can out-race the speedsters, if you handling them right. The multiplayer is probably the game's greatest strength - it allows for two players to go at it on the same PC via split-screen. I know that in the times of 4-player games this may seem like nothing, but as far as "hot seat" racing games go, "Ignition" does fairly well and it certainly kept me and my friends occupied longer than most other titles from its genre. Overall, if you like arcade racing with a twist (like Micro Machines or more recent Toybox Turbos), I think you'll enjoy "Ignition". It's NOT the best game of the genre, but it certainly does everything right and should entertain you, if only as a quick break between other games.
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Posted on: June 15, 2018
EiseNKrafT
Verified ownerGames: 20 Reviews: 1
Good game, despite technical flaws...
Of course, I picked it up due to nostalgia, binge-played it as kid, you know the deal, you did that too. It still is an absolute blast to play this one again, after all these years. That said, there are some issues I have with this one: - DOSBox only, despite that, it runs good at the max 800X600 resolution as is, even if the menu is at the lowest res and it only adjusts itself during the loading screen between every single race. - I can't get the 3DFX & NGlide version running past the intro cutscene on Windows 10. - The infinite explosion glitch, super annoying, especially during tournaments. Still recommending it, if you can get it to work outside DOSBox.
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Posted on: January 14, 2017
Kukulcan
Verified ownerGames: 326 Reviews: 10
I hoped for this to pop up
Ignition is one of those games i played for a long time in my childhood and have a good memory of it. I hoped for this to pop up on gog and was just looking for it the other day. Now here it is and is always fun like the first time. I can't give 5 stars just because of the software rendered graphic and not 3dfx better version, but the game is good and provides lots of fun. Also, it is very cheap now at release , which is a plus.
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