Death Rally (1996)
Genres:Racing
Themes:Action, Fantasy
Game modes:Single player, Multiplayer
Story:Shoot your way through screaming bystanders, pick up more ammo and turbo from the side of the track, and floor the pedal while performing some shady deals for The Dealer. No trick is too dirty when you're preparing for The Final Confrontation. Only the hardest armor, the most powerful engine and the biggest guns will see you through the ultimate battle against The Adversary.
And when you feel you can't take it anymore, you can check out the underground market: Spiked bumpers, landmines, rocket fuel or sabotage can provide a way to create some nasty accidents for the competition.
Death Rally was remade for IOS and Android in 2012, by fellow Finnish company Mountain Sheep. Remedy Entertainment stayed on board with the publishing.Show more
Bring back the original Death Rally! This game was so much fun. For years I only had the demo, which was super fun being locked to the 3 lower tier vehicles and trying to compete with the top tier vehicles. Racing with weapons, always a good time. It was so satisfying when I could destroy every racer before the race was over.
When I nabbed the full version for a measly $10 in the late 90's, I had no idea how much fun I was going to have with this killer racer. Best way to win, destroy the competition for a nice bonus. Even then, final boss was a jerk. Glad to put him out of his misery. People could accuse the game of being repetitive, I was too wrapped up in the action and music. Exceptional music btw, of the best mods of the era. Yes, a bit grainy, those are the samples, no CD audio here, only pure old school gold: like SNES and Megadrive of the time, only on PC. I swear, Valtonen, aka Purple Motion, was a god, a huge inspiration for me. Hope this game and its righteous tracks live on forever.
An awesome game that so deserves a second life on GOG with their preservation programme.
I played countless hours with my brother. Such beautiful memories that I'd love to share with him again if it ever came out on GOG.
Aside from being really fun, this vehicular combat racer had a lot of character. Upon starting a new game, you were faced with three difficulty choices. The ones I remember were "I live to ride" and "petrol in my veins." You could then choose your character portrait from the game's roster and make your name. The roster had memorable characters like Sam Speed, Duke Nukem, Jane Honda, Bogus Bill, and Farmer Ted. I used to pick Sam Speed because he was supposed to be the best, but later I chose Bogus Bill or Farmer Ted to roleplay rags-to-riches. Regardless of character creation, you always started with the worst car. The cars had memorable names like Vagabond (VW Beetle), Dervish (pickup truck), Sentinel (coupe), Shrieker (sedan), Wraith (looked like a classic sports car to me), and Deliverator (looked like a wide-bodied concept version of a Formula One car). The game tallied league points for the whole roster as you played, and Sam Speed always seemed to fall off probably because he had the fastest car so he was always being shot from behind. The league was divided into three difficulty classes with the race rewards being proportional to the difficulty, and the highest difficulty was filled with wraiths and deliverators, while the lower difficulties had worse cars. The game was fun both on and off the track with you being able to purchase vehicle upgrades (engine, tires, etc.) and weapon upgrades as well as per race weapons (spiked bumper and mines) and sabotage against a random opponent's car for your next race when you were off the track. Also, you could visit the menacing loan shark to jumpstart your vehicle upgrades and you could accept missions like taking minimal damage. On the track, aside from racing and destroying your opponents, you could pick up cash, repair buffs, and drug(?) debuffs. Pushing a destroyed car onto a repair buff made them race again. In the shareware version, you were limited to up to the worst 3 cars and you won by topping the league.
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