Wacky Wheels

I originally played the shareware version of this that came on my Duke Nukem 3D CD, back when that came out and I came back to it to try and complete the game. The game is decent. Everything works as it is supposed to. The art style is pleasing and the music, although not abundant, has some real bangers. The only problem is that after playing a few races I noticed that all the tracks play very similarly and it has very little real variety. The AI is of the rubber banding type so no matter how much you hit them with the weapons, they will be back on your tail in no time. It has a nice range of difficulties, including a kid mode. I'm sure young kids would love this game as an entry into gaming as it is very forgiving and the bright animal characters are great. On the other end of the spectrum you have Champion difficulty which they made unfair to the player. I loved the Champion difficulty as I had to try some interesting stuff to win each set of races but still, I finished everything in less than 3 hours. The only thing that caused me a very minor issue is that playing on the keyboard has a set up of arrows for turning, ctrl for firing, and alt for accelerating. Windows 10 has a shortcut of ctrl/alt/arrow for flipping the screen, which confused the heck out of me at first. After realising what was causing the screen flip, I used the numpad arrows instead which doesn't cause the problem. All in all, it's fun for a short while but don't expect too much out of Wacky Wheels.

I played so much this game when I was young, a pleasure to play it again ! a lot of memories !

I'm not sure it's really that fun nowadays since there are much better alternatives. Might be fun to play with kids if you have some though and it definitely had some appeal when it first came out. Gameplay is simple though and playing against the computer is boring. All nostalgia aside, i wouldn't buy it. I liked it when i got it but wouldn't play it nowadays.

Exactly what it says in the title! Fast, fun and utterly shameless!

It's nice to see this in GoG for nostalgia but it's not really worth your time and never was. Apogee made a cheap copy of Mario Kart for PC and left out everthing that makes that game an all time classic. The avergae playtime in GoG is less than 30 minutes. So for some rounds of boring animal racing in flat boring courses you can get the shareware for free and save your money for other great games on GoG.