Giveaway of the Day - Deadly Race

Deadly Race:

Installation:

Todays game is a 55.3Mb download that expands to 129Mb when installed. There is no shortcut installed to the desktop, or the Start menu so make a note of where it installs to. It tried to install to the last game giveaways location for me, but generally it may also install to:

C:\Games\DeadlyRace

Also there is no uninstaller, so if you decide the game isn’t for you, you can just delete the games folder as there’s no registration details stored in the registry.

Introduction:

Deadly Race is a game set in a post nuclear time
ear setting. Daredevils from different corners of the world drive to victory through wrecked cars of their competitors in this deadly racing game.

Reference http://www.gametop.com/download-free-games/deadly-race/download.html

The Game

There are 24 levels to work through . All levels apart from the first one are locked and can only be unlocked by attaining specific goals, usually winning at least a bronze award , but in later levels require you to have won all levels at at least silver. Thankfully you can return to any unlocked level to retry your luck. before you can play them. When you attain the required goal the next level will be unlocked, but to play it you must click on the level icon otherwise you’ll end up replaying the level you previously played. The 24 levels are divided up into four stages, with the first six levels requiring you to win the previous level to at least Bronze standard, the second six (levels 7 to 12 ) also requiring only Bronze, then from level 13 onwards you are required to have won all previous levels to at least silver.

Winning a level (Gold) or placing second (Silver) or third (Bronze) will give you cash winnings that can be used to purchase better vehicles such as the Firemaster (cost $3500), The Police Car ($3000), The Futuro ($2000), The Steamer ($2500) or the RoadLord ($4000) , also when you have the opportunity you can buy ammunition for your guns, rocket launcher and mine layer. Only one vehicle is available at the start of the game and it has the lowest ratings with respect to Armour, Acceleration and Speed..

Ammunition can also be picked up during play via bonuses. (In fact this is the easiest way of getting ammunition rather than spending your hard earned cash on it. These include ammo for your guns, rockets and mines as well as repair bonuses. In game tips are given at the beginning of a round. For example:

Tip #1: Death rush:

You are the only Driver against Crush Test cars.

Fill your weapons as much as is possible and destroy as many cars as possible. Evey lap you finish increases the amount of points per target car, so finish the first lap as soon as possible.

Until you get a faster vehicle your default one will seen a little slow compared to other vehicles, but it’s still possible to win levels by destroying as many vehicles as you can. At the end of the round each destroyed vehicle will be uses as a score multipler to decide how much cash you win for that race; the more vehicles you destroy, the higher your winnings.

Controls:

Steer Left……………………….L arrow
Steer Right………………………R arrow
Forwards………………………..Up arrow
Backwards………………………Down arrow
Fire Gun…………………………X
Fire Rocket ………………………C
Fire Mine…………………………V
Nirtro Boost………………………L Ctrl
Respawn………………………….R
Pause/Exit…………………………Esc

Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdG6wQXmqMc

Images:

http://s571.photobucket.com/albums/ss160/Whiterabbit04/Deadly%20Race/?albumview=slideshow

Conclusion:

The game reminds me a lot of Death Track: Resurrection, though it’s not as polished as Deathtrack , and the weapons aren’t as hi tech, also the games AI isn’t as good (I’ve never won a race in Death Track because I’m always getting destroyed by the opponents wheras it seemed much easier to avoid getting destroyed in todays game giveaway. That said the game play is sound and looks reasonably well made. I’m a big fan of post apocalyptic games of any type and I love racing games; so to combine the two is brilliant. And for that reason I’d give this game a slightly inflated 7 out of 10. I say inflated because I’m biased . In reality when I compare it to the many racing games I already own it wouldn’t score beyond a 5.5 if that.

There is no facility to use a Steering Wheel or a Game pad with force feedback. However, the handling of the vehicle is okay considering there’s no force feedback that usually enables you to steer around any corner easily without having to constantly adjust your position when using keyboard arrow keys or WASD. I think adding the option to use a steering wheel or game pad as a control method would enhance the game play significantly; especially as some community members will probably be put off by the keyboard only control methods.

For alternative games in this genre please follow the link below. Thank you:

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/7386?replies=1#post-76011

i’m running a dual boot with vista hoe premium 64 bit and win 7 enterprise 64 bit and might try out this game ( tomorrow) on both partitions with both operating systems so any comments from win 7 users would be greatly appreciated also much appreciated is all the work whiterabbit does round here (btw stephen what operating system ( or systems ) do you use to try these out with

have a good night everyone

take care and good luck

………………………………………Moderator comment…………………………………….

At the moment I’m testing in Win XP and Vista, but do have a win 7 Pro disc to install. I’m waiting to buy a new HDD first though as I want to install my copy of Win 7 on a new drive. Once that’s done I’ll be able to test via 3 different OS’s