While I couldn’t hardly finish past last place unable to win enough money to upgrade or sometimes even repair my car my son is flying around in a hot rod that damned near laps us every race.

The game does do some auto repairs as well as bullet reloads when you are in between races. I don’t know if this was just because I didn’t have any money or if it will do it no matter what. However it seemed a bit random and repairs were usually partial.

Overall It was a lot of fun and besides the mention chunky interface I have no other gripes. Though the arrow controls suck a bit I was able to drive the car well on the free track.

“Well, it did come out a year after Mad Cars, but I’m more inclined to believe that it’s “very loosly based” on a few old DOS games”.

It was actually inspired by the tabletop game Car Wars (which I’m sure itself was inspired by DOS games as most game are) and the Mad Max movies, but set in its own original universe. Though my comment wasn’t meant to be a direct comparison, just an indication of it’s similarity, though Darkwind is far more entertaining especially if you have time to really get sucked in by the whole scene.

Actually the only that that is frankly stupid is your attitude that other people’s opinions are worthless, which is something you have made clear to everyone with your offensive language. Just because you think that a racing game having mouse support is “stupid” does not make it so. You really need to grow up, Lockett.

This game is too similar to Tiny Cars. Thumbs down.

I exited the game expecting my progress to be saved and all was lost