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I liked the original Death Rally game, it gave you a feeling of beeing submerged in the world of the Death Rally circuit. You started with some wierd kind of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ized (b4$t4rd|z3d, wordfilter lol!) rusty VW-beetlecar with built in machineguns and armorplating welded on to it. The car was crap, and you knew it, but that was the point. After many many races where you sometimes knew very well you had no chance in hell of winning the race, you soldiered on, staying out of harms way of the neo-corvette juggernauts that you hoped of one day obtaining.

This game has missed the point totaly. After playing the game for an hour and unlocking cars and weapons, I'm sad to say that this game is not a worthy remake. It's got a cheap plastic feel to it in many ways and here are some examples of what went wrong:

You're not at liberty to save money when you repair and upgrade your car after a race. All acquired money has to be spent there and then, therefore it effectively removes the economic dimension from the game, and with that removes all strategy from the game.

Gear and cars are not bought, they are collected on the race track as parts and once all parts are collected you get your mines or machinegun or new car. What was given to you will not be valued. Therefore the game is not about upgrades since new gear doesn't come from you spending your resources to get them.

Your car has auto-fire on the built-in machinegun, you dont even have to pull the trigger to use the weapon and ammo never runs out. I shouldn't have to explain how wrong this is. There are other secondary weapons though that require ammo and triggerpulling, but thats beside the point.

There are some other points that I could make about thats wrong with this game, but what has already been written will suffice. Technically this game might be well made from a programming point if view, the problems is that the designers of the game had no idea what they were doing.

First off, when I was a kid I played the original, with every possible options and on every difficulty level, etc. So I loved it. Even though I know I have romantic (sentimental?) feelings toward *that* game I wanted to give a chance to the remake but it was still very, very disappointing.

Maps are redesigned a silly way so they lost their charm (e.g. "shortcuts", "booster areas", etc), as well as "unlocking" new cars, weapons, etc.
This game, instead of giving options for the player on how to spend their money, forces one into dumb achievement and 'on the road objects' farming until the nose starts running...
What about the money you earn in the races in the mean time, you ask? Oh, that money? It goes to neverland! YISS, it is lost.
Money in this game is nothing you collect or spend. It is just points to fix the car and fill the rest of the bars (armor, etc).
So, e.g. want some mines? Good. "Unlock" and "equip" (otherwise it is free), as soon as you unlocked all the dumb stuff before the mine (like "shotgun" as a weapon instead of the auto-gun...).

I am saying all the above by not giving a cent for the game, as it came for free with a game magazine. It is sad. Super sad. Even the "free" version does not worth playing it :/

When I first bought this game, I was expecting the same game as original one with better graphics. So my first experience was a huge dissappointment. My memories with the original one was so fresh, so I couldn't see that this one (although shares the same name) is a different game for a different time.

In first game your motivation was climbing the ladder to fight with adversary. This game has no ladder, so if you are an old fan, you hate the game from the begining. But this time it is more about cars you have to get ambitious about. Upgrading cars and guns are your main goal in here. Races are faster and harder (in my opinion) than original one. 3 Laps is too short to kill everyone in the game (if you have a new car), so it really takes more dedication to win any race. Graphics are much better than the original one (it has to be after 20 years :) ). Cars are the same (which is a plus :) ) with cool upgrades.

Of course the game has its downs. Like story is not going to get you. Races are too fast. Race ends till you get the idea most of the time. Gameplay is not very smooth. Enemy AI is not very bright.

But, in the end, you should see this game as a casual game as it is an adaptation from mobile game. So if you take games too serious it is not a game for you. But if you wanna open a game, make a few race, collect some stuff in your free time, this is right game for you. 9.99$ is a little expensive for the experience, so if you catch a sale (2.99 or less is ideal I think, but 4.99 is not bad too) don't miss it..
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PS: If developer reads this; the thing I miss the most from original game is the enemy characters. There are bosses in every race but in the original game as you move up the ladder you fight with harder characters and before adversary you compete with hard characters like duke and sam speed. This time bosses are just normal cars in normal races. If this could be added to game it will be great. (like adding special voice over, small ads for the boss of the game, may be a history and stuff).. Thanks.

If you were a fan of the 1996 original Death Rally, and are hoping this will be a revisit with nicer graphics, you'll be be sorely disappointed.

Remedy have simply changed far too much. About the only stuff it has in common with the original are a few names scattered around the place. It feels like a completely different game which a ten-year-old has modded to add a few references to his favourite game.

It's a remake of Death Rally in name only. If it didn't have the Death Rally references, I'd say it was inspired by it and would mildly recommend it. As it stands, however, I don't.

If you want to play Death Rally, play the original in DOSBox. You'll be much happier.

This game is filled with lazy design to the brim. Rubber banding, synchronous scaling, non-existent difficulty curve and so on. Accordingly it gets boring extremely fast. You can easily see the mobile game roots of this and they show their worst side. Grind without any substantial progress and achievements requiring you to basicly shut your head off and hold a button for 50 hours.

There is no value to be found here, stay away from this 'game'!

If ever there was a game I would urge people to stay away from, it's this one.

I expected it to be mostly like the original. Seeing Remedy Entertainment mentioned as both a co-developer and publisher for this title my hopes that it would capture the magic of the old title were pretty high. But within no-time this game managed to squash all that.

Controls are just an awkward mess. I played mostly with controller, where the car follows the direction of your left stick based on your overview perspective, rather than allowing you to control throttle with a button and steering with the left stick relative to the car. Sadly, it doesn't get all that much better with a keyboard.
All cars have a tendency to feel like a stick of soap on a wet bathroom floor. You want to go round a corner? Nope, the car is going to stop in its tracks first, then go for a big half circle in the other direction, before turning the direction you want, as if to underline that this is not a racing game. No, this is a shooting game, with cars.

Sadly, when it comes to shooting there isn't much fun to be had. The standard weapon is controlled by the player, only so long as you don't have a secondary gun, at which point it starts shooting on its own (why? Not a clue!). While most secondary guns at least look nice, they are not very effective (nor is the standard weapon, to be honest). Sadly, you get nothing more for fighting off opponents that are behind you than 3 mines - per race. Those 3 mines by themselves are, however, only capable of dealing enough damage to take out 1 enemy entirely. Unless he upgraded his armor. So in other words: in order to get rid of opponents there is nothing for it but to drop back and shoot them from behind. Even though you actually should want to be in the front in order to actually - oh, I don't know - win the race.

Upgrading your cars, weaponry and obtaining new cars is no longer done by saving up and spending money. Money has to be spent immediately after a race in its entirety on upgrades, or more precisely: towards upgrades, as you probably cannot afford it in 1 go (again: why? Not a clue!). New cars and weapons can only be obtained by collecting parts, by shooting down opponents. Yet another reason not to make an effort to win a race, but rather to fight your opponents.

It's almost as if the developers sat around the office challenging each other to come up with gameplay elements that did not benefit the game. In actual fact, I hope they did, because then at least they would have had more fun making it than I did playing it.

Going through the hassle of finding the original and getting it to work is less annoying than playing this "game"...

It's garbage. The handling is horrible and everything looks "poor".
Yes you can play it with your friends, but you won't.
Does not worth 1€.

This could have been the return of a classic.
Instead this isn't a bad game... but in no way a better game then the original death rally.
Only recommended on a sale!

Death rally is a classic type of game.

Imagine sitting down and watching NASCAR for 80 hours, but there's Geoff Keighley there, too, for some reason.

That's what it's like to play this game.

Nice!

Decent mobile port of a remake

Story: 15/25 Gameplay: 20/25 Graphics: 18/25 Sound: 16/25

OVERALL: 69/100

This is a game where you race cars with pew-pew guns. So, the story is pretty nonexistent most of the time, but it's there. The gameplay is fun and fairly satisfying most of the time. However, in later stages when your car is maxed out and you know what you're doing, it gets really boring as you just get ay ahead and you just ... turn. Te graphics and sound are okay. Everything starts to look pretty bland and you start to tune out the sound, but ... oh well. Pretty solid for a mobile port and a remake of a game from 1996.

At first the controls are horrible... but if you update the handling points of your car it starts to actually do what you want it to do. And then... then the retro feeling kicks in. I loved the original and I fell in love for this remake too. Just one more race, only one. Okay, that one too. And maybe another one. Is there time to do one more?
The not so great parts is the difficulty of the "last boss" and the requirements of the last achievements. That's where it starts to get frustrating and repetitiv. But even if I have to talk me into start the game again to do the same races on the same courses all over... once I'm in I can't stop because there's just enought time for one more race. And maybe one more...

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Quick PRO/CON list for anyone who doesn't want to read too much:

Pro:
- Top down driving with good camera and controls.
- Brings back memories of Death Race 2000 and Carmageddon
- Variety of vehicles and weapons to unlock.
- Graphics, for the kind of game, are clean and do the job despite being a bit dated by today's standards.
- You can win a race by placing first (duh) OR by taking out the competition - and they occasionally take each other out. Or sometimes you.

Con
- "Meh" voice acting. Blame "Tex".
- Weapons and vehicles unlocked through picking up parts.
- Can't save money between races.
- Some races inherently unfair.
- Pick-ups during races come in sometimes hard to destroy boxes. This is due to a poor design of the main weapon that "autofires" when it sees fit.
- Randomness of pick-ups makes it easy to win some races, and frustrating to win others.
- Unless you have a lot of armour and/or a really fast vehicle you probably don't want to be in front of anyone at the start of a race. Only mines fire to the rear and you only get 3 - and they never replenish during a race.

An ok top down racer with an extremely limited number of tracks and a rather dull story. But the game's not about the story as much as the race and at least most of the actual racing was fairly fun.

By the end of the game you'll be sick of driving the same tracks over and over and over. I was also very tired of whatever Tex mumbles. Tex looks like an oversized George Lucas, by the way.

Graphics are good, clean, and the vehicles and scenery look pretty good. The cars are responsive, especially if you work on the handling stat, and there are a number of extra weapons you can eventually unlock, level up and use - but only one "special" at a time. Some are way, way better than others. The shotgun I found to be almost useless, for example, while the rocket at level 1 was far better than a level 9 shotgun. Unlock cars and weapons by picking up parts during races.

The "shadow man" shows up once in a while (via phone call) to offer you advangtages on a per-race basis for a cut of your profits.

The end race against The Stig .. er I mean The Adversary ... was annoying and completely luck based for me. I'd have lost again if it wasn't for lucky nitrous drops at the right times, and a lucky bump that sent The Adversary into the wall just before my last nitro kick to the finish line.

This game os a 6/10 as it is. MAYBE a 7/10 if you really like this genre - and I mean *REALLY* like, as I like it but not enough to be generous and give it more than 60%. Still, gotta recommend it as it's not terrible.

It could have been better with the simple addition of longer, better tracks to race on. I didn't find driving the tracks in reverse to be much good for variety, although they do feel different in reverse. I don't mean longer as in more laps like the 42 lap marathon race without weapons - I mean slightly larger tracks. Some of them are so compact that you're at the final lap (Note that the final lap is usually the 3d, sometimes you're in a one lap race so that's SUPER short) before you've played much more than 70 seconds. Yup. 70. Seconds. Some one lap races last 20 to 25 seconds or so. Yup, takes longer to spend your earnings.

With better design decisions this could have been a 10/10 for sure. I'd pay for a simlar game that has no instant repair or ammo pick-ups during the race. It could have stats that can be improved for the driver and vehicles that are upgraded with parts you purchase with cash from your winnings. You could unlock different parts by making contacts or spending cash. Make it roguelike with perma-death *IF* you actually die when the vehicle is disabled and it would be even better. Improved ranking system, multiple places to race, larger vehicle selection, ability to mount weapons facing EITHER DIRECTION... *sigh*. I'll shut up now, y'all know what I want.

4/10. The game should have been named "Grind Rally" instead. Do not expect a proper PC game if you buy this, but an iOS port meant to be played as a means of spending time while sitting on the toilet.

O jogo pode não ser o mais novo, nem inovador, mas, uma coisa esse jogo consegue com muito louvor! Trazer uma pura, crescente e constante diversão! Além de um ótimo passa tempo, é um jogo que não é nem 1% frustrante, parece que foi feito inteiramente para divertir e trazer prazer ao jogador. Ele é desafiador sim, mas, nada que quando você entender como se joga, e melhorar seus carros e armas, vá ser mais um problema. Mesmo que falhe, a única pena que terá de pagar é receber menos dinheiro, ou seja, você não tem que se preocupar logo de início com as vitórias e sim ser mais forte, aí então um vitorioso caminho será mostrado a você! Recomendo a todos aqueles que gostam de games clássicos como Biker Mice From Mars (Snes) ou Rock n' Roll Racing, garanto que terá uma grande diversão regrada a grandes doses de nostalgia!

Jogo simples mas com uma boa jogabilidade, lembra muito o Rock N' Roll Racing com vários carros para equipar e pistas com diferentes níveis de dificuldades, então vale a pena principalmente se vc pegar com desconto.

Nota - 8/10

[1-5]:

Gráfico (Graphic)...: 3
Som (Sound).........: 3
História (History)....: 2

Single Player..........: 4
Multiplayer.............: ?

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O jogo é um clássico das antigas, o primeiro jogo neste estilo que eu vi foi um do NES chamado: Super Sprint, depois veio este... você vai evoluindo e comprando novos carros, armaduras, armas... não encontrei ninguém para jogar online, talvez devesse ter entrando em algum grupo e ter chamado alguém para jogar... divertido e bom!

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The game is a classic of old, the first game in this style that I saw was one called the NES: Super Sprint, then came this... you will evolve and buying new cars, armor, weapons... I have not found anyone to play online, maybe I should have going into some group and have called someone to play... fun and good!

Refeito a partir dos clássicos de Corrida + morte de 96, Death Rally 2012 é um ótimo jogo para passar o tempo, para quem só jogou o clássico e ainda não conhece essa versão 2012, conheça algumas diferenças entre os jogos:

Prós:
- Maior Variedade de Carros.
- Maior Variedade de Armas.
- Mais opções de Corridas por vez.
- Tipo variados de corridas (só 1 volta, 1x1, Derby, só tem dinheiro nas caixinhas, só vale minas, entre outros...).
- Minas e espinhos são permanentes em todas as corridas após sua compra \o/.
- Patrocinadores aparecem com mais frequência oferecendo algum tipo de "produto".
- Toda corrida possui um chefe.
- O pagamento das corridas agora está mais versátil (ganha-se por mortes, quebra de recordes , vencer o chefe, posição, entre outros).
- Mesmo após "zerar" o jogo é possível continuar Jogando.

Contras:
- Não dá pra acumular dinheiro, se você quisesse, por exemplo, juntar dinheiro só para comprar outro carro quando tivesse condições de deixar ele "Gold", não será possível =/.
- Todas as corridas, independente da dificuldade só possuem 3 voltas, muitas vezes, por mais letais que sejam suas armas, em 3 voltas não dá pra matar a todos , uma vez q toda corrida agora possui 6 e não mais 4 participantes.
- Após zerar, o jogo torna-se bem limitado e repetitivo.

Bom no geral é isso ai, pelos prós e contras dá pra dizer com certeza que Death Rally é um jogo que vale a pena jogar =D