This game is a really run and gun arcade style game which I found myself playing for hours. Although fun to race, I found myself exploring the tracks looking for secret powerups and challenging myself to get to places I had never gotten previously. On one of the tracks, I must have spent countless hours just driving up a half pipe for god knows what reason; I think it might have been for a powerup that was in a secret passage.
It was very challenging and obviously addictive. It is futuristic and fun and will test a lot of reflexes to appropriately navigate the different track layouts and beat/destroy the competing vehicles.
Anyway this game was one of the greats from when 3D graphics first came into play. It has brought back memories of when myself and other mates used to hold LAN parties at each other's house and play this game from the early hours of the evening to the early hours of the next morning, polluting our bodies with nothing less than about 2 large pizzas each and about a case of no name cola. Gone are those days now, but this game I believe has really brought about
in my mind what gaming is all about.
I think the only downside to this game is possibly the length of some of the tracks and the lack of ability to go off-road is some spots. If they had increased the size of some of the tracks we would find ourselves even more addicted to this game than I already was.
Powerslide incorporates drifting and beefed up cars in the style of Mad Max and each and every car that you drive in here must have large engines that make a lot of noise. They are pretty good for an arcade style game (let's not compare it to the top of the range games from EA or any of those but you get what I mean, the sounds are pretty good) and definitely won me over in my earlier years of playing.
Some of my other games I played from about this time period include Forsaken, Half Life, Counter Strike, GP 500, and yet out of all of these I think that between this and Forsaken, we have got some of the most fun fictional games ever released. I like the post-apocayptic themes. I wouldn't hesitate to go out and buy this game again, should it be available in today's market.
