![]() ![]() ![]() Another feature of illegal races is that nobody cordons off the streets to block traffic for the racers, so you will have to avoid hitting pedestrians or run into cars along the way. Naturally, since the races are illegal, you will have to avoid or fight cops who will show up on your tail. If you don't have a weapon, you can even grab one off the other racers if you are quick enough. This means it's a free for all once you hit the road. The premise of the game is that you take part in a series of illegal races on roads across the USA. And you will need to learn those attacks quickly, because things get nasty in a violent-but-so-much-fun Carmageddon kind of way. You can perform a lean, a fast steer, and slow steer, and use three ways to attack fellow riders and cops: kick, punch, and swing. First, although it may be an arcade-style game with little realism, Road Rash offers more than a few ways to steer the bike. Now, let's talk about the good stuff, of which Road Rash has plenty. And I have already mentioned the lack of real-world physics, but that's a design choice rather than a flaw. The music is also horrible - you will most likely turn it off after the first few tunes (luckily you won't have to hear it, since this CD-rip is missing the music to save space). Very few things are drawn to scale, the background scenery looks like discarded Hollywood cardboard sets, and the riders, cars, and pedestrians are all very pixellated. It's laughably bad, and inexplicably so considering how Papyrus' NASCAR Racing series looked at that time. The graphics, by 1996 standards, is dismal. ![]() Let's get the bad stuff out of the way first. Not that it's a bad thing at all - even die-hard racing fans will have a blast driving up the wrong lane, slamming into passing cars, and beating cops around with an iron bar. ![]() While the game may sound like a 'realistic' motorcycle racing game ( Motocross comes to mind) - especially with Papyrus' name behind it, it is actually an arcade-style game that pays little attention to real-world physics. If you want to bring back this retro motorbike game to your PC, it's now easier than ever: you only have to hit the download button to get hold of Road Rash once again.Road Rash is one of the rare gems that play much better than it looks.Īlthough very dated when released, the game's simple charm attracted a small but loyal following. In fact, it was an advance in playability and graphics to what we saw a bit later in the first Need For Speed installment, the car racing game that definitely doesn't need any kind of introduction. The game was first released back in 1991 for Sega Mega Drive (known as Genesis in the USA) but some years later it was adapted to other platforms such as 3DO, PlayStation, Sega Saturn, and PC. The game took place on the typical Californian bidirectional road in which we had to worry about overtaking our rivals and also dodging the traffic by racing past it or avoiding it if it was heading towards us, in order to not end up on the ground. Motorbike races in which everything is allowed Road Rash allowed us to take part in motorbike races with rather loose rules, being able to know down our rivals by kicking them or punching them if we deemed it appropriate. We're talking about a rather successful game during the 90s'. ![]()
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