Rollcage (Windows)

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Description

Rollcage is a fast, furious 3D racing game from Psygnosis, combining elements from Death Rally with elements from Bullfrog's classic Hi Octane: Race five other drivers in an immersive 3D environment while shooting at your peers and avoiding their retaliation.

You have a wide selection of tracks and cars, along with options for multiplayer gaming and a vast array of configuration options. Cars can drive up walls, flip over, and continue driving. This makes for a very quick and fluid gameplay unlike any other at the time of this game's release.

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Part of the Following Groups

• Console Generation Exclusive: PlayStation
• Genre: Car / motorcycle combat
• Rollcage series

User Reviews

An excellent and fun game!

Tomer Gabel (4634)

Critic Reviews

Gamezilla	Mar 29, 1999	91 out of 100	91
Svenska PC Gamer	Mar, 1999	90 out of 100	90
Computer and Video Games (CVG)	Mar, 1999		80
GameSpot	Apr 28, 1999	7.9 out of 10	79
PC Joker	Mar, 1999	75 out of 100	75
PC Games (Germany)	Mar, 1999	74 out of 100	74
GameStar (Germany)	Mar, 1999	72 out of 100	72
Adrenaline Vault, The (AVault)	Mar 31, 1999		70
Computer Gaming World (CGW)	Jun, 1999		60
Computer Games Magazine	Apr 15, 1999		60

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Making Of

According to David Perryman, then a level designer at the Attention To Detail studio, the game's origins come from one of the studio's regular game pitching evenings. Steve Bennett had invented a new method of pushing polygons through the PlayStation at a ludicrously fast speed. Together with Stuart Tilley they pitched that technology as a racing game with destruction in it. They called it "Wrecked on Speed" and at that point it consisted only fast cars with a ton of downforce able to drive on walls and blow stuff up. After a period of pitching the game to publishers under the name "G-FX" (G-Force Extreme), the team was signed up by Psygnosis and the game was renamed "Rollcage" - a suggestion from Alan Bunker, head producer at Psygnosis Stroud.

During the development process, programmers encountered the problem with some cumbersome and clunky behaviour of the cars' objects when they exited a tunnel while driving on the wall. The solution was to rotate the object and, together with the toy of the Ricochet remote control car that flips over when colliding with wall which was brought to studio by John Meegan (external producer at Psygnosis), the idea of the shape of the cars was born. It was a compromise between the solution to the technical problem, and the lack of any real idea as to how the cars should look like.

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• Wikipedia: Rollcage (Information about Rollcage at Wikipedia)