Powerslide
from Ratbag is an Arcade racing game that pushes the
current limits of PC game engines even further. Let me
just say that this game is WILD! The game is set in a
post appocolyptic world where the idea is to race all
sorts of mad machines very quickly around the most
unlikely of race traks doing the most insane things you
can do in a motor vehicle. The tracks include Empty dams,
multistory parking stations and sand covered towns. The
insane things include driving up dam walls and sling-shoting
down the 
wall to
gain a few more hundreth's of a second, performing
handbrake turns down a flight of stairs and generally
smashing into things both stationary and moblie at very
high speeds!
Powerslide is about fun, more importantly it's about very fast fun. 60 frames per second kind of fun (the fun I like the most) the game engine is capable of an incredable amount of detail as well, a very good effort considering the consistancy of the frame rate. To start with the game is quite easy to beat, the novice drivers are quite useless, crashing quite often. As you progres through the game to the advanced and expert modes just keeping up with the pack becomes quite the challenge. Then in the Insane mode the bastards are out to get you!
So what is that makes this game a "classic"? Simple addictive gameplay that can be refined and practiced untill a very high skill level is achived.
I will continue...
All images from http://www.ratbaggames.com
Game Features coming soon.
(When I am finished with a feature I'll post it, not before!)
Powerslide
Gran Turismo
Quake I, II and III. (With other ID games, I think this will be a feature on ID software.)
Gold Box Games. (The old Dungeons & Dragons system. There were so many games I'm just featuring the game engine, which remained largly unchanged for many years.)
