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PresidentStalkeyes
Since: Feb, 2016
6th Jun, 2020 10:09:03 AM
As an update, I thought this game might have been Powerslide, but I'm pretty sure that's not it, as it lacks the NPCs and has a distinct post-apocalyptic flavour.
"If you think like a child, you will do a child's work."
I remember, back when I was a kid, I had a go on this old racing game for the PC (as the title suggests). Well, I say racing game, I can't actually remember if you race anyone or if you just had to get from point A to B. I distinctly remember the physics behind kind of floaty and it was easy to wreck your car. Plus, you could see your driver, who looked kinda like a low-poly Serious Sam.
The levels/tracks had pretty diverse settings; I remember a volcano/mountain kind of place, a city in a desert, a ski slope, and the wastes of the antarctic. The tracks all had NPCs wandering about, including wildlife. The thing I remember the most about the game was that, if you wreck your car, you get a little scene where your driver frustratedly kicks their wrecked car while surrounded by a circle of that level's NPCs - for instance, on the city level they'd be surrounded by police cars, and on the antarctic level they'd be surrounded by penguins.
I remember liking it a lot, actually, which is why I'm annoyed I can't remember what it was called. I thought it might have been one of the Carmageddon games but it wasn't nearly as violent - if I recall, if you ran over a person or animal they just ragdolled off into the distance like in Smuggler's Run, but were otherwise unharmed. Somehow. I was a kid, never questioned it. :V
Edited by PresidentStalkeyes