![]() Racing around the area, you try to pick off the other contestants before they take you out of the game. The duel-to-the-death contest has gone global, taking you to such international hot spots as Paris, Hong Kong, and an abandoned Soviet missile silo.Īfter choosing one of 12 deviant cars, you drive it from your raised chase-car perspective through mostly uninspired arenas, picking up health, napalm, and other assorted weapons of mass destruction in hopes of being the last one standing. It was victory through attrition the last one standing was crowned the winner and promised glory, riches, a T3 connection, and whatever else his heart could possibly desire.īut the times, they are a-changin', and where once there stood a proud City of Angels, there stands only a rotting corpse of a metropolis (yes, I know, not much has changed since 1998, but I digress). You and several other contestants were confined to a futuristic arena where the sole goal was to take out every other vehicle with your own armed-to-the-teeth motorized machine of mayhem. In the original PSX game, the venue for your carnage took place in LA. ![]() To add jet fuel to the flames comes the sequel to the semisuccessful PlayStation console car killer, a game that'll encourage living out real-world violent tendencies more towards the game's designers than towards the jerk who just cut you off (right before he gave you the finger).Īs far as plot goes, this title prefers to take the Seinfeld approach to story development and be pretty much about nothing, save the fact that essentially it's kill or be killed, which has always been my personal favorite. ![]() ![]() ![]() Coincidence, or something a bit more insidious? It's open season on America's freeways with computer games bringing the biggest keg to the party. Subject for debate: Just as all those ultraviolent car shooters like Interstate '76 and Carmageddon hit the streets, the discussion of that latest of 21st Century syndromes, "road rage", has become, well, all the rage. ![]()
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