When I bought this game on Steam, I had some real issues with this game. It looks great, sounds are nice, the feeling of speed id there but... The car would not go straight for 10 meters no matter how hard you tried (have fun spinning off the track on a straight road on LeMans circuit!) and the AI doesn't ever acknowledge you are there or try to avoid collisions, but try to ram trough you instead if you happen to be in front of them. Nothing like getting a good start and then getting rammed off the road by an AI car who is religiously following a predefined path on the road with no deviation. In short, an average racer with nothing special, except for the ability to rewind time to avoid that stupid mistake of braking too late you made so you can continue racing instead of totaling your car. But if you like these sort of semi-realistic racers, This might be suitable for you. Personally I'd like to see GT Legends or GP LEgends in the selection. Those two amazing would easily put this game back to where they belong.
Let me take you back to the Golden age of computer games when everything wasn't 3D and hardware accelerated. I present you Pinball Gold Pack, the undisputed King of arcade pinball simulators. These 20 tables take you trough different themes varying from spooky castles to savanna, and futuristic prisons, each with varying difficulty levels. The graphics are still pleasing and clear, but sometimes you may have difficulty with keeping track of the ball as it zooms across the table when the action gets hectic (Believe me, it does sometimes!). The physics are fairly simplified, but still realistic enough to feel good and they improve when you get to later titles but you never get a feeling the ball takes a predefined, hard-coded trajectory like some other games in their era. I remember having Pinball Dreams and Pinball Fantasies for my Amiga 500, and I literally played them to death with my friend, and we never got bored. Later when I got a PC, I came across the later games such as Pinball Dreams 2 and Pinball Mania, which were great fun to play too. This game pack has a great deal of tables, more than enough to keep you and a couple of friends (up to 8 player multiplayer!) entertained for many evenings, and I feel this would make a great party game for any Good Old Gamer out there.
Right now I am grinning like Max on the cover art. My long-lost love is back. I could not believe my ears when I first heard the news of Carmageddon Reincarnation Kickstarter, and I almost literally popped a monocle when I heard Carmageddon Max Pack is coming to GoG. But let's talk about the game. This game will pit you onto many different locations, ranging from idyllic landscapes to rock quarries, cities and waste processing plants with architecture making you wonder where I can get those same mushroom as the designer. The gameplay is simple, with 3 different victory conditions. You can complete the predetermined number of laps on the track. Very rarely used as the race usually quickly turns into brutal bloodbath with only one objective: Kill or be killed. Which is the usual way the races go. The last and most rare condition is to kill every single living pedestrian (human or animal) in the area, which takes a *very* long time as most tracks have hundreds of "peds". The cars handle pretty well, they are not exactly super-realistic but every character comes with their own, twisted personality with a car tailored to their personal liking. They all behave differently and suit different styles oof play, so everyone will find their favourite pretty quickly once you "acquire" them. The way the cars handle in the game is that I personally love the mixture of arcade and realism, allowing me to do wheelspins in those pools of pedestrian blood. Don't wait. Buy it. Experience it. Release the road-rage in a safe environment. It has everything a chemically unbalanced driver needs. Insane and twisted characters, amazong and fun tracks, power-ups, and great soundtrack by Fear Factory (if I remember correctly).
