World Rally Fever: Born on the Road

Presentation of a really good Sega Saturn game. Gamplay reminds me of the arcade game "Power Drift". None of those statements are a condemnation, as the Saturn was one of the best home consoles made, and Power Drift is an absolutely fantastic racing game. What wasn't clear to me after I started playing this was that all of the drivers have different stats - you're left to pick each one to see for yourself how they handle. It's a trade off: you have to USE all of the drivers to see which one you like, but you need to keep starting a GP race, as there's no "practice" or "time trial". Never knew about this game until I saw it on GOG. Nice surprise.

An unknown gem (at least for me) of retro racing! It combines truely great looking sprites with some 3D elements to form a unique look that I cannot describe different than beautiful. I love how the different courses look, France being my favorite together with Scotland. The church you drive around, and the castle in the distance are a pleasure to look at. Coming to racing action, I like that it is not as fast-paced as other titles, and a bit more forgiving when driving around. The New York track has some jump sequences I could hardly handle, but I'm sure I will with some training. The computer seems to make no mistakes at all, even in Rookie mode. But that doesn't keep me from giving full recommendation at sales-price for World Rally Fever.

I remember playing this demo - I loved worms at the time and found it while paroozing the Team17 site. I would play it over and over, normally trying to hit the sheep, but it had the most depth and was the most fun out of any of the racers I played at that time.

Really love it. I had never heard of the game back then and only saw it when it was on GOG for discount during a sale. Gotta say I was pleasantly surprised how well it plays. The controls are VERY arcade and the difficult curve is pretty steep. It's quite a challenge and i must say this game deserves all the love it can get. A wonderful GOG release :) It reminds me a lot of "Street Racer" only with Anime Style.

Shockingly nice looking MS-DOS take on Powerdrift with decent music. The game suffers from major flaws though: First, player acceleration is unbelievably slow no matter which character you pick; the computer racers accelerate exponentially faster. Bumping anything zeroes out your speed. The game sort of auto-steers for you on corners which makes dodging obstacles in or just after corners on certain tracks extremely difficult, it feels like the game is trying to pull you back into them. Your steering seems to get worse the slower you get so it's basically impossible to correct a turn where you're headed for a wall. Runs smooth, looks great, just feels like it wasn't tested in the slightest. Really like zero fun to play.