Today, PC survival races are a fairly popular branch of the Racing genre, because, despite the fact that there are much more difficulties, they themselves are more exciting and dynamic. However, unfortunately, modern copies of this genre often come out only in budget variations, and it can be quite difficult to find really high-quality projects.
What are they?
Racing for survival on the PC is a fairly extensive genre, which includes a large number of diverse projects. Given their peculiarity, the ultimate goal of arrivals in them can be a variety of tasks, which, in fact, depends on the main feature of the game, as well as its popularity.
What are they like?
- Thus, in some of them you need, as usual, just to come to the finish line first, however, in addition to your ability to control speed and enter corners, along the way it is better to shoot down as many opponents as possible and at the same time make sure that you do not shoot yourself down.
- Shooting In principle, it is the same as the previous type of games, however, in this case, each player’s vehicle is equipped with weapons or even a whole arsenal of weapons, and therefore only the winner of the race will reach the finish line.
- Derby is an analogue of races that have gained popularity in the United States. Terrible-looking cars, made for the sole purpose of being broken in the next race, beat against each other until all but one of them failed. The main goal of creating such machines is maximum durability, since they must withstand the maximum number of strokes and stay on the go, as well as budgeting, because by constantly participating in this kind of races, you can simply go broke and not cover the costs with any winning money. Achieving such a balance is not easy, but the game does not have all of these limitations, so such survival races on PCs are becoming especially interesting.
FlatOut 2
This is undoubtedly the most popular survival race game on the PC. There are absolutely all variations of such races, including standard races and derby, but there are not only racing with weapons. Good graphics, fairly realistic controls and quality performance make the gameplay especially enjoyable. Due to such a wide variety and incredible drive, the game gained popularity as the best survival race for two.
It is also worth noting the fact that, among other things, there are also various kinds of funny competitions, such as, for example, playing bowling with your driver or using a catapult to try to “shoot” them at the maximum possible range or height. You can also play poker drivers.
Next car game
This fascinating project from FlatOut developers provides not so much content, but at the same time it has great graphics and gives real pleasure for those people who like to play. Games "survival race" here are not so diverse and consist only of derby and simple races, but it was done so colorful, exciting and interesting that hardly anyone can not appreciate it. After the game was released in 2014, it instantly gained wide popularity as a re-release of FlatOut, but in fact, most critics said that it was more likely a combination of FlatOut with the no less iconic Destruction Derby.
The realism, which was given special attention in this game, can please those people who want to play real derby. Games of the "survival race" of this kind are not released every year, so fans of this genre will definitely not remain indifferent.
Gaz Guzzler Extreme
Unlike previous games, everything is done exactly the opposite: there is nothing realistic, only rally cars with machine guns, rocket launchers and even some kind of industrial shotguns of destructive power mounted on them. Here you will take care not only about how to enter the turn correctly, but also about how to make sure that you are not hit.
It is worth noting the fact that in this game the developers did everything quite competently and tried to make the conditions even ahead of those traveling and catching up. Thus, there is no automatic aiming at the target in the game, and with certain types of weapons you can shoot back, that is, shoot back from your pursuers, which makes the game especially interesting.
"Mechanoids"
Domestic development, which did not receive much popularity, although it was also performed quite well. This is not a race on survival vehicles, but the battles of gliders of the future, equipped with various types of weapons. In principle, the setting is similar to Gaz Guzzler Extreme, except that here we are talking about the future and there are not enough large number of opportunities.