User Rating: 8.5 | Viper Racing PC
This is a Papyrus game, the folks who later brought us the great NASCAR series. The physics engine is excellent, the tracks are great, and career mode is just a lot of fun. The other driver AI's are little bit stupid; they sometimes behave as if your car wasn't even there. This can be quite annoying, especially at the start of a race. The graphics are good, probably close to state-of-the-art when the game was released, and the sound is OK. I just replayed the game recently on my WinXP system, and the sound was having some problems -- but the gameplay was just as fun as I remembered. There are a good variety of tracks, and you have to adopt different racing styles to excel at all of them. All in all, an eminently enjoyable racing sim.