[News] Death Rally, for free

Back in the mid-90's, when the unfortunately named Duke Nukem was still relevant and equally unlucky Max Payne was still but a concept in Photoshop 4.0, Finnish developers (and Max Payne creators) Remedy Entertainment released a combat-based, 2D overhead-view racing game called Death Race.

Perhaps not the most ground-breaking name, or game concept for that matter, but the game itself was damn entertaining. Winning races meant you got money to spend on upgrades, which meant even more winning on your part. A simple formula that works great. Another nifty addition was the underground market that allowed you access to shadier upgrades such as land mines, or to even sabotage your opponents' cars.

Sadly, the game arrived around the time when the 3D graphics crazed was taking over, and not even a cameo appearance by the aforementioned Duke Nukem could make it popular with the mainstream crowd. That being said, those that did get to play it enjoyed it quite a bit.

If you weren't one of them, then good news. Remedy have updated the game to work on Windows-based PC's and have re-released it for free. And even if you are one of the select few, this new version beats having to load DOSBox every time you want to play the game.

TL;DR version:

You'd think that with all the advances in videogame technology, the combat racing genre would have given us a few gems over the years, but instead they're in constant decline. It sucks.

No, sandbox games don't count.