Racing

Speed Busters – American Highways

Description

Speed Devils is a series of video games developed by Ubisoft’s Montreal studio for Microsoft Windows in 1998 and Dreamcast in 1999. Both Speed Busters: American Highways (also known as just Speed Busters) and Speed Devils are racing games in which the courses feature hazards such as dinosaurs rolling boulders, and UFOs in exotic locales including Louisiana, Louisiana Tornado, New York City, New York City Winter, Mexico, Nevada, Aspen Summer, Aspen Winter, Canada (Supposedly northern Quebec), Canada Light Winter, Canada Heavy Winter, Montreal Industrial, Hollywood, and Hollywood Disaster. The console version’s career mode allowed a player to rise a racer through the ranks of a fictional racing league. Colorful rivals would challenge you to accomplish certain feats during races, making accompanying bets using prize money from competition. Money earned from gambling and performance is used to buy cars, upgrade them, and maintain them. The game also supports five players on one Dreamcast console.

For centuries, the speed limit on American highways has been restricted by law. Technology now offers drivers the chance to make their own choice in the virtual world with Speed Busters: American Highways. The police have lost their minds and reward the fastest players to fly past their strategically placed radar! Earn cash to upgrade one of eight specially designed vehicles based on models ranging from the ‘50s to the ‘90s. Tackle mixed terrain, avoid shocking animations, and storm through environments based on real North American locations. …

Lego Island

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Lego Island is an action adventure game designed for younger players. The game is played from a first-person perspective as one of several characters on the island. The island is a three-dimensional world with a lot of Lego inhabitants for you to interact with.

As you travel from place to place, you will find numerous points where you can assemble small vehicles from Lego pieces. Once the car, ambulance, jet ski, or whatever is assembled, you can use it to travel around the island. Some vehicles are used in races on the Island’s race tracks as well.

In addition to exploring the Island, there is a storyline involving the Brickster, a mean guy who likes to disassemble lego buildings. By interacting with other characters and performing tasks around the Island, the player eventually puts the Brickster in jail. …

Lego Island 2 – The Brickster’s Revenge

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Lego Island 2: Brickster’s Revenge is the sequel of Lego Island.

The game begins with the player traveling around Lego Island, delivering pizza and talking to fellow citizens until the event where Brickster escape from prison, and attempts to deconstruct all the buildings on Lego Island.

Varied gameplay, as the game is part flying game, part racing game, part sky-diving drill, and part astronaut training mission. The player will interact with around 50 or more different characters from Lego Island. Along the way, the player will have to fly bi-planes, race LEGO cars, command space shuttles, and skateboard through a plethora of areas based on LEGO’ series of play themes, like LEGO Knight’s Kingdom, and the LEGO Adventurers.

Also featured are 18 sub-games, as well as a LEGO-themed skate park where the player and Pepper can try a ton of skateboard tricks anytime. …

Lego Island Xtreme Stunts

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Island Xtreme Stunts is a mixture of different genres in a single game. The player explores a LEGO-based environment in an open world format: ride a skateboard, drive, fly and pilot a range of vehicles all whilst performing stunts and tricks while taking on the bad guy, Brickster. The player is cast as Pepper Roni, a lead stuntman in a big movie production set on LEGO Island.

Even though the player is free to go wherever he wants, there is a story behind the game divided over 25 missions. All the missions are stunt-based. Running around the world in 3rd-person view, the controls are pretty basic and do not offer the trick combinations of other stunt/trick-based games. It is easy to pick up and play, even for the younger players, without worrying too much about what button combination will do what trick. Instead the player can focus on the missions by only having to complete basic tricks with a few button presses.

During the quests players can collect trading cards to unlock mini-games. Other features include bricks to create “Brickimals” and the ability to change LEGO Island objects. …

NickToons Racing

 

Description

Nicktoons Racing is another Mario Kart clone using cartoon characters from Nickelodeon. The gameplay follows the standards closely: the player controls one of the characters to win races on tracks filled with scattered power-ups and ramps. A meter at the top of the screen shows the current position and the amount of nitro fuel available. Extra fuel can be collected as shiny orbs on the road. The gift boxes contain random power-ups, like coconuts to throw at the other racers, flash lights to temporally blind them, and traps like baby powder, trash cans and green goo to slow down the competition.

The game has four modes for single player. The main cups mode is the championship, where the objective is to arrive at least in third place to qualify for the next race. In time trial mode, the goal is to complete laps as fast as possible, with a ghost car showing the fastest performance to be surpassed. Race for fun is a practice mode, where any of the tracks can be explored without the pressure to win. In relay mode, the player switches characters after each lap. …

Cabela’s 4×4 Off-Road Adventure 2

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Cabela’s 4×4 Off-Road Adventure 2 is a singleplayer-only off-road racing game with six different game modes: skill, navigation, explore, discovery, endurance, freedom. The main objective is to find the navigation buoys using the guidance of compass, map or distance. There is no time limit and no opponents, the focus in entirely on navigating the vehicle. The game offers 6 maps (e.g. desert, mountains) and 12 fictitious vehicles, mainly pickups and a military truck. Crashes and collisions dynamically deform the car and the damage affects the handling of the vehicle. …

Cabela’s 4×4 Off-Road Adventure 3

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Cabela’s Off-Road Adventure 3 has the player test his driving skills combined with RPG elements. Each completed mission has the player accumulate experience that allows for the purchase of better parts, newer trucks and the ability to accept tougher and more rewarding missions. Unlike other Cabela’s Off-Road titles, Off-Road 3 offers hunting with perspectives in and out of the truck. …

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