Death Track®: Resurrection
Death Track: Resurrection
Positives:
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Finally a Death Track successor
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The tracks are cool and well made
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Carmaggeddon style comments and view of the destruction
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The graphics are ok
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The sound is ok
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If you play it right, its also quite fun
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Parts and weapons upgrade
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Has a story mode (called “Scenario”)
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Drag Races
Negatives:
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A lot of horrible bugs that never were fixed
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Many errors and sudden quits of the game (making it hard to play)
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You need to force stop the game after you exit (therefore my 128 hours of “playtime”)
– Real player with 127.8 hrs in game
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I think it captures most of the essence of the original Death Track.
That being said, it does have flaws and definitely could use more work - the missing multiplayer mode is a prime example.
The “storyline” mode is interesting at best, it doesn’t seem to mesh with the actual game, even if you win all the time, others are seen celebrating and having accidents.
The game itself is simple - race fast and try to get to the finish line first. Someone in your way? You’ve got two forward-directed weapons to take care of that. Sprinkle a few mines or spikes behind you to keep others from overtaking you.
– Real player with 27.0 hrs in game
Post Apocalyptic Mayhem
I should have written a review for this game ages ago. I am completely in awe of this game and I am so addicted to it. I love how the races always seem different even though I may use the same car with their own unique weapons. Every race is so unpredictable and you never know what’s going to happen. This is a good distraction game for me and it makes me feel incredibly happy playing it. I can kill my opponents without the risk of getting arrested! Lol. Great music tracks to each race in the apocalyptic challenge mode as well as various cars with extremely powerful weapons. Some cars are better than others but I like to play with them all to make it even and challenge myself even more. You can play on easy which is not as easy as you would imagine but a good place to start if you are playing it for the first time. I like playing on hard. I love the challenges of the hard mode. What can I say. Good graphics, music, gameplay and interest. I would definitely recommend this game to anyone who is interested in buying it. If you like fun and a challenge or 2, then this game is for you. You need to be on the ball and kill your opponents in order to get the most kills if that’s what you like. There is no escape! I would say that it’s sometimes difficult to play in multiplayer if you can’t get any players to join but it’s a good excuse to get your friends to buy it too! Thanks to the developers of PAM, you rock!!
– Real player with 1661.9 hrs in game
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Post Apocalyptic Mayhem has to be the most underrated racing games on Steam. My family and I play this game every week, I liked it so much we have a copy on both accounts. I realized I hadn’t wrote a review for this awesome game and now I will solve this overdue problem. The handling of the cars is easy enough that when my son was three years old he played this and it quickly became his favorite. There are twelve cars to choose from, seven tracks but the Winter Wasteland is just the first track Wasteland with snow. There is single player and multiplayer. In Multiplayer there is ranked and unranked options. In Unranked racing by time or kills is selectable. There are three difficulty levels. The multiplayer is pretty empty but that just means you arrange games with friends and the steam group for this game. Each car has three weapons and has a nitro boost. A front weapon, a side weapon, and a rear weapon. Use the appropriate weapon to attack cars that are near you. To win kills are more important than placing at the end of the race. When driving around the tracks your car can collect barrels of the appropriate color for each weapon by driving through them to collect them then you choose them when cars are near you. For viewing the rear window pressing down lets one peak out the back window to see how close the other cars are. Sadly there is no local co-op but that is okay as there is multiplayer. My son doesn’t like to play multiplayer too often with me as he is five and likes to win, but it is still fun in my opinion. Buy the game you will not be disappointed! If you are hesitant by it on sale and enjoy a wonderful awesome game!
– Real player with 216.2 hrs in game
Road Z : The Last Drive
A nice little arcade driving game from a singel dev.
You drive, and upgrade to get further before the gas runs out or Zeds trash your car. (or like me, like a magnet going head on into every exploding barrel on the road) ^^
You can leave the car to take your revenge on zombies showing them the pointy end of your knife, also upgrade materials kan be found on foot in houses etc for some extra boost to upgrading your car.
For me this game is fun, I like the grinding to get to the next checkpoint and the “strategic” element in balancing what to upgrade and choosing when to avoid or hit zombies to get as far as possible.
– Real player with 6.1 hrs in game
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Apparently I’m one of only 2% of people who have stuck with this game to make it through the 2nd stage (4 stages total). For 4Gb worth of content, there really isn’t much to this game. The driving is fun, and so is upgrading the cars, but it honestly feels like it should be part of a bigger game. If this were a full RPG with the ability to drive around too. I would love it…however as it stands, it has to little content, way to much grind for what little content there is and I’m left with the feeling that this could be so much better if there were just …more to it
– Real player with 4.4 hrs in game
Road of Dust and Rust
You play as a convict, banished from a futuristic civilisation to the wasteland, where entire communities grew up during the years of this practice. As having a car is one of the basic rights in society, every outcast can keep his auto in exile, so wasteland life has been built around the cars.
The core of the game is mass car battles, where each car could be modified with various improvements, such as flamethrowers, raws, shields, boarding or kamikaze devices, etc. You can either destroy an enemy group or just leave them behind, if all of your cars are fast enough. These battles take place on procedurally-generated wasteland roads, filled with obstacles suitable for landscapes where a battle has been started on the global map.
Gun Road
There was no alarm. There were no urgent news reports. Just something happened, and the world has changed. The government disappeared, the climate became harsh, dangers appeared everywhere. Well, countryside guys did not notice the difference …
The Chosen One did not leave the shelter. Mutants did not become super-heroes. People need to live on their own - organize themselves in groups, share the remaining resources or loot them from each other. And, of course, always to go somewhere … in search of the best places, money, glory and answers …
So get in any car and move towards adventure! On the road you will find some better vehicles - buy or steal it! Put bigger guns to disperse the bandits, buy an energy shield and become the coolest guy on the Wasteland! And call friends - it’s more fun to ride together! Apocalypse has come - and things will not be worse, so it remains only to have fun and blow up everything that gets in the way!
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Steal-kill-upgrade
Experience comes with time - and cool perks for your character! And the money saved on gasoline can be spent on improving the car or buying a new one - tune your vehicles to your taste!
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Create your gang …
Up to 4 players in cooperative campaigns, and each campaign will force to fully use team tactics. Different ways of leveling your characters and upgrading your cars - this is the key to victory!
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… or be a lonewolf
Go through the campaign alone, compensating the size of the gang with your own cold calculation or vice versa - with fighting madness! Dynamic difficulty will not let experienced players get bored and will offer mercy for the newcomers.
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A new adventure every time
Locations change procedurally - you never know what awaits you for the next turn. Your personal interactive road-movie will have a unique script every time!
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Choose your way
Only you decide where to turn: a short, but dangerous road on the contaminated wasteland, or a distant and safe highway. On the wide and fun path of robberies and crimes or on the meandering path of help to someone who can not appreciate your efforts …
Hard Truck Apocalypse: Rise Of Clans / Ex Machina: Meridian 113
This open-world, third-person, post-apocalyptic driving shooter is kind of odd. It’s also kind of old. This game is from the mid-’00s, and there are some issues getting it to work reliably on new systems [like it failing to save video settings after restarting, occasional crashes]. The translation from Russian is a bit rough, but overall the gameplay of driving about and shooting all sorts of things is compelling. Especially because you get to customize your rig, not just with different chassies, but within chassises. You tend to have three or so different models of cab and/or trailer to swap out, equip, and possibly even load up with cargo.
– Real player with 25.4 hrs in game
It only took me 2 days to finish the storyline which I found actually short(Half the time I was actually trading and buying and doing side quests). I haven’t finished Ex Machina since I don’t want to end the game too soon. Anyways just like Ex Machina its the same vehicle combat game rpg with trading and quests. The trucks are the same in addition to adding the scout and the fighter that you can actually drive. The paint jobs got a bit more of an upgrade giving some personality to your truck. Same weapons return just like the previous. I did enjoyed this one but like I said I was bummed that I finished it too early. The boss fights were a bit fustrating and your character tends to kill anything on his path. But hey we got a new region which is now in North America. But I found em a bit smaller in towns. There were some cities but they were that enough. I still recommend it if you were a fan of Ex Machina.
– Real player with 17.7 hrs in game
Redline
My review is divided between 2 sections (past and present), to give the game a fair score.
Perspective of 1999 Review:
Redline’s main attraction is its ability to mix car combat with first-person shooting. After controlling a vehicle or turret and using each ride’s unique weapons, you can exit at anytime, and the game transforms into a first-person shooter with ten different on-foot weapons. The first-person elements works better in enclosed areas or buildings, as seeing an enemy’s car coming straight towards you is unsettling. The only way (except for accurate aim with one particular gun) to battle a vehicle is, of course, with your own vehicle.
– Real player with 13.6 hrs in game
Redline is a Car-Combat/FPS hybrid. It’s fast-paced and has some interesting ideas up it’s sleeve for sure. It seems a bit ambitious but unfortunately seems to have either rushed production values or not reign them in properly.
First I’d like to briefly point out the good I observed in my experience:
*Lovably hokey voice overs (Love me some cheezy VO which was common back in the day!)
*Lots of cars– and they all look really cool!
*Fun to toy around with the cars and their unique weaponry
*Being able to drop in/out of your vehicle any time you like
– Real player with 10.6 hrs in game
Hard Truck Apocalypse / Ex Machina
There are a lot of games on Steam, but once in a while, you browse the catalogue and discover a little gem hiding somewhere in the deep ends of the underated section. Ex Machina is one of those games, but let me start off by saying that this game certainly isn’t for everyone, it’s genre is considered to be a very acquired taste, but I would say it’s worth the buy anyway just for the sake of trying it. I didn’t expect it to be anything amazing given it’s lack of popularity, but I was wrong, this game is truly brilliant.
– Real player with 96.5 hrs in game
The Crossout single-player predecessor, Hard Truck Apocalypse (original name Ex Machina fits it even better) was somewhat quite intense when it first hit the shelves. The gameplay (similar to the golden classic of the Russian game development, the Vangers) was quite addictive, with all that driving in the wastes of the post-apocalyptic open world, shooting bandits, upgrading your car, delivering some post quests and convoying caravans… Driving, driving and then some more driving and fighting with your car. There was also an intriguing sci-fi story plot, with some twists and various ways to go through the game (two starting quest lines, non-linear solutions in every big chained mission in every game area, and two endings, with two different boss fights and outcomes).
– Real player with 75.8 hrs in game
Hard Truck Apocalypse: Arcade / Ex Machina: Arcade
HTA Arcade is an attempt to dumb down the original Hard Truck Apocalypse (aka Ex Machina) into an arcade shoot-em-up. However, it does not support controller, and the keyboard/ mouse controls are horrible. The game is also extremely unbalanced, and there’s NEVER enough heal. The in-game purchases to improve your trucks are EXTREMELY expensive, and lack of savepoints or checkpoints make the entire game extremely frustrating. You’re much better off playing the actual HTA, not the arcade game.
– Real player with 11.0 hrs in game
Sure the game might crash if you try to change the resolution. Sure the game might crash if you try to alt tab it. Sure the game might crash if you change any of the graphical settings. Sure there might be invisible mines that lead to an instantenous and unavoidable death in level 6. Still I found this game to be quite fun and enjoyable. It has some flaws for sure, but nothing that can’t be overlooked and it is cheap as dirt most of the time.
– Real player with 6.2 hrs in game
Horror Drift (ホラードリフト)
Ever wanted to deliver tofu while drifting on japanese touge runs? Great, because this is your chance, only problem is that the tracks you were assigned to are a little…haunted. Try not to get discouaged by the sinister presences and complete your run to earn your fame into this haunted drift world!
An arcade racing game with a horror heart: drive through the best japanese scenery and touge tracks and show what you are capable of, but be aware of the dangers that lure in the dark. You can go for the points by drifting your tires out, or go for speed and best time, driving as fast as you can. Be careful though: on the tracks, numerous evil entities are trying to slow you down and make you crash. Will you be able to avoid them all and cross the finish line? Every drift you make, every corner you cross, will make you closer to unlocking new tracks and new cars, with an ever growing chioce that will be kept updated and renewed even after launch. But behind every corner lies a possible danger that may completely wipe all your progress, randomly generated for your (un)pleasure. Be fast, be smart, don’t get scared.