When Infogrames are blessed with driving games of the calibre of Rally Masters, it's a mystery as to why they bother with such lower division fare as this. Developed by Pitbull Syndicate, the team behind the non-renowned Test Drive 4 & 5, Demolition Racer wouldn't have looked out of place five years ago. The graphics are little better than a work-in-progress sketch, and it's the kind of thing that could easily be passedoff as Shareware.
As the name might suggest, the wanton destruction of auto vehicles is the order of the day, and it occurs in a strictly rudimentary fashion, with a basic driving model and some simplistic effects. Clearly aimed at American non-gamers, it could tenuously be described as the Deer Hunter of racing games, in that it takes a redneck pastime and replicates it in a moron-proof fashion.
Essentially, Demolition Racer offers a similar experience to the ancient Destruction Derby, but unfortunately is inferior in almost every aspect. The various modes offer minor variations on the theme of damaging cars, and include Demolition Racing, where the goal is to stay alive and inflict as much damage as possible on your opponents, the self-explanatory Last Man Standing, some straightforward Stock Car Racing, and a Chicken mode against oncoming traffic. There's even a Suicide mode in which the first player to destroy his car wins. It might sound great on paper, but in reality Demolition Racer is a very weak game. For rednecks only.
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