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Nitronic Rush - completely awesome freeware PC racing game - A Black Falcon - 15th November 2011
http://nitronic-rush.com/ Get the game here. It's free, there's no excuse! This is one of the best new games I've played this year, it really is.
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It's a timetrial racing game, done as a Digipen student project. The name and car design (and wings) make you think of Rush 2049 of course, but the environments and gameplay isn't like Rush at all; instead, it's basically a challenge game where the goal is to get to the end of the course in the fastest time possible. There are Rush (2/2049)-style flip/spin tricks to do in the air, for points, as well. However, you won't explode if you land on your roof, you'll just not get points and flip back upright. Also the cars aren't topheavy like Rush cars often seem to be, so you land on your wheels more than in Rush. The physics are different too, as are of course the courses -- this game takes place on floating paths in a cyber world, not in real world tracks. So yeah, there are some elements of Rush, but it's also quite different in many ways.
Timetrial is basically the only mode, the only opponents will be (online or offline) ghosts. There are a good number of courses, starting easy and then getting harder, and the graphics and music are great. It's got a very stylized "computer world" look, Tron-esque I'd say. The music's good techno stuff, fits perfectly. The levels are long paths, all one way and not laps. You avoid obstacles, try to figure out your way through the stage as fast as possible, etc.
My only real complaint is that the game doesn't seem to be able to recognize any of my joysticks or gamepads, so it's keyboard only. It supposedly supports gamepads, but tapparently they only bothered to program in 360 pad support or something, and there's no control configuration either. This is a BIG problem, to be sure -- I am quite annoyed it doesn't work with gamepads that aren't the 360 controller, I don't have or want one of those things for my PC -- but the game's more than great enough to be really fun anyway. Definitely play it!
Nitronic Rush - completely awesome freeware PC racing game - A Black Falcon - 16th November 2011
Seriously, play this.