Powerslide

Powerslide has the atmosphere of Pod with improved graphics. Levels are truly awesome and the music is fantastic, with tracks featuring didgeridoo. But beware, the game is aptily named: cars slide a lot. You feel like driving a piece of soap on ice, cars are hard to handle, which, in my opinion, makes racing annoying and frustrating. The gameplay would have been totally different with a little more grip. If you get bored, do not hesitate to look at the cheats to unlock all bonuses and tracks. I did not find this game fun to play but it was so beautiful that I always came back to it.

Aged reasonmably well for a racing game.

Powerslide is one of the greatest racing games ever developed. I played it more than any other racing game. I bought it again, because, according to the user reviews, GOG made the game work in Windows 7. This is partially true, but they did this by disabling the Direct3D support. It now uses either a very ugly software renderer, or a glide wrapper capped at 800x600. I could have achieved both with my CD version, but both do not do the game justice. This is just another bad release.

ONLY FOR THE RACING GAME CROWD. THE CASUAL FUN ENDS WITH THE FIRST NOVICE CUP AND AFTERWARDS IT IS THE LAZY GAME DESIGN "DRIVE PERFECT OR BE LAST" DEAL. Harder difficulties require you to drive better i.e. faster, which makes the car extremely likely to flip over, instantly making you lose the race. If I was going to drive perfect, I might as well drive real car and actually win something, for the same challenge. With a game with extremely arcade controls, you would think it was more relaxed. The music is nice, I guess. The whole idea of artificial difficulty is to make the lackluster content last longer and to practically try to pad out the gameplay hours by requiring grinding and / or / AKA repetition. I cannot recommend a game, of which 20% of the main content is okay while the rest is figuratively urine-flavored. Technically, it is one of those Glide / 3dfx / Voodoo accelerator card games. Goodluck trying to window this one, probably won't work. Back in the day, these games were marketed 90 % with the accelerated graphics. Today, they look like low-detail-textures with some smudges on them. Nowadays, beginner devs with Unity and no programming skills can create better stuff fast. At this point it has nothing worth remembering left, let alone paying real money for. Get Flatout 1 or 2 instead, no artificial-difficulty padding there. Get FO2 if unsure, that's the more casual-friendly one.

I can't get the game working on my Windows 7 64 bit pc. I've read that this game should work right away, but obviously it doesn't.