Death Rally is an excellent, addictive, racing game with tons of action!

User Rating: 9.4 | Death Rally PC
Death Rally is an awesome top-down racing game that was released in 1996 by Apogee Software and Remedy Software, the creators of Max Payne!

In each race, you try to get through to the finish line first, and you can shoot at the other cars with your weapons. If your car or one of theirs is destroyed, it will burst into flame and be out of the race. You will sometimes be offered extra challenges, like winning the race by destroying all of the other cars. It has different cars available to buy, and you can customize the color of the vehicles. Each time you get enough money and move up and buy the next vehicle, you get more speed, more firepower, and more armor. You can upgrade each vehicle with more armor, better tires, and more! The toughest of the vehicles, the Deliverator, is completely awesome and has dual guns on each side. It's also the fastest of all the cars in the game.

You can select from a group of racing characters, including Duke Nukem! Some of the different characters have special abilities. Duke, for example, is the toughest character to beat, and his car in the game will be harder to shoot up than the other vehicles of its level. Another character is faster than anyone else.

The graphics in the game are nice, and it actually has a couple of cool cinematics!

You play the game by joining races for money after you've chosen a character, and you race around interesting tracks with the other computer controlled opponents. There are different classes to race in, and you move up as you get better cars and more equipment. The other players in each race are randomly selected, their stats are all displayed after each race. The stat board shows how many points you have earned, and your ultimate goal is to get to the top. You cannot ever catch up with the top racers and take first place unless you move into the final racing class. That's the only one that awards enough points to get there. Each race also gives you money, and after every race you can go to the shop to buy repairs, upgrades, and powerups. Once you take the number one spot on the points chart, you have to battle and defeat a boss, which is really cool. You could just keep racing forever without getting the number one status, but once you beat the boss, the game will end. Death Rally is one of the best racing games that I have played, and it's extremely addictive and fun to play.