Your planet is doomed, and there is only one remaining seat on the spaceship leading citizens to safety. This will go to the winner of a sequences of races held within this futuristic world.

Viewed from above and behind the car, the game boasted a lot of technologically advanced features. Computer AI adjusted to your style of driving whilst in progress. It was the first game to use MMX technology, and the first to support 3D acceleration straight from the box. It also had a range of multiplayer options including networks and split-screen, and an online internet server to automatically match player.

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Alternate Titles

"POD: Planet of Death" -- European title

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POD series

Merchant	Title
	POD
	POD
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User Reviews

Excellent arcade racing game	Iggi (1965)
Major milestone in the introduction of hardware-accelerated gaming	Zzap (43)
This game just plain sucks.	Tomer Gabel (4476)
A big disappointment.	Trixter (8865)

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The Press Says

Electric Games	1997	94 out of 100	94
Coming Soon Magazine	May, 1997	92 out of 100	92
PC Zone	Aug 13, 2001	9 out of 10	90
Computer Games Magazine	1997		90
Game.EXE	Mar, 1997	75 out of 100	75
Game Revolution	Jun 05, 2004	B	75
GameSpot	Apr 17, 1997	7.5 out of 10	75
Privat Computer PC	1997	73 out of 100	73
PC Gameplay (Benelux)	May, 1997	72 out of 100	72
Edge	Apr, 1997	5 out of 10	50

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Trivia

POD was one of the first games optimized for graphic cards with a 3dfx chipset using the Glide API. With support only for the 3dfx Voodoo 1 chipset at first. Ubisoft later released patches to support the Voodoo 2 using the Glide API and non-3dfx chipsets via Direct3D.

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This entry to the MobyGames database was contributed by robotriot

(6380) on Jan 01, 2000.