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Some time has passed since our last racing game release, so amateur drifters and experienced race drivers rejoice! Today we’re bringing you a good old fashioned arcade racer, Speed Busters: American Highways for just $5.99!

[url=http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/speed_busters][/url]The setting of today’s release is a little bit bizarre: a local law enforcement officer has won the lottery and he kind of went bonkers. Instead of leaving his job and spending the rest of his life on a pension somewhere in the Caribbean, he decided to host a series of races where he sits by the speed traps and instead of enforcing the law on the racers, he is rewarding the fastest of them with money!

The game has several different modes you can play through. Choose the championship mode to start with a set amount of money, choose a car to buy and upgrade it (nitrous, a giant wing, etc.). Then compete in a set of circuit races in order to gather more money to repair or upgrade your car. The cash reward is multiplied by how fast you went past the policemen in the race. The arcade mode lets you choose between cars, tracks, weather conditions (rain, fog or clear), and time of day (day or dusk). After that you jump into a race to beat the clock and drive through checkpoints to continue racing like in your favorite arcade racer of yore. Shortcuts are not rare, hidden tracks will reward those who enjoy the game to the max, and the trigger happy ram’n’slam game play will let you chill out after a day full of work. The car design unifies a classical old-school feel of muscle cars with a futuristic line of the crazy arcade setting Speed Busters: American Highways is known for. Apart from tuning the insides of your mechanical beast, you can also use a variety of paint and skin options to customize your ride to your grease-monkey heart’s content.

Grab the DRM-Free version of Speed Busters: American Highways for only $5.99 now, and get paid for speeding like a madman!
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ShreddingDragon: Anyway, +1 for Carmageddon series. TDR2000 was a little weird, didn't have the same quality, but Carma 2 was legendary. Carma 1 was never-before-seen when it came out, but to me 2 it was better than 1 in all respects except the missions.
I remember wondering back then how on earth the console-heads keep raving about Twisted Metal games (1-2) so much, when there are so much superior car combat games like Carmageddon 1-2 around as well...

Ps. I wonder if the Carma 2 sound track (Iron Maiden) would be big enough impediment for it not to appear on GoG. Well, at least without the sound track.
Post edited October 29, 2011 by timppu
Well, the good news is that the original developers have wrested control of the Carma property from whichever major publisher was holding it and doing nothing with it. So: maybe a good, modern Carma 3 sometime?

(Apologies for the lack of linkage, but Google/Bing whatever should find the news item.)
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ShreddingDragon: Anyway, +1 for Carmageddon series. TDR2000 was a little weird, didn't have the same quality, but Carma 2 was legendary. Carma 1 was never-before-seen when it came out, but to me 2 it was better than 1 in all respects except the missions.
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timppu: I remember wondering back then how on earth the console-heads keep raving about Twisted Metal games (1-2) so much, when there are so much superior car combat games like Carmageddon 1-2 around as well...

Ps. I wonder if the Carma 2 sound track (Iron Maiden) would be big enough impediment for it not to appear on GoG. Well, at least without the sound track.
I remember that Twisted Metal craze too. Everyone was like "DUDE! Have you played TWISTED METAL 2!?"

A new Carma is coming indeed, and I hope it'll have some weight on GOG's releasing of the old ones. Even without Maiden, C2 would rock.