Viper Racing (Windows)
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Published by

Sierra On-Line, Inc.

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Released

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Genre

Perspective

1st-person, 3rd-person (Other), Top-down

Gameplay

Vehicle Simulator

Vehicular

Automobile, Track Racing

Misc

Licensed

Critic Score

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3.7

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Description

The first simulation of sports-car racing that features exclusively the Dodge Viper, one of the most popular racing cars on the road today. Viper Racing combines both the easy-to-master arcade racing mode and the challenge of a serious simulation mode with three levels of difficulty.

A career mode is included to let you earn money to upgrade your car and move up through three different classes of the Viper racing league. Many tracks are included, along with replays, for reviewing races later, and a garage mode, for tweaking your setup.

There are also hacks, including the ability to drive planes, but none of these are particularly useful, nor well-polished, except the 'exotic' car. (Most of the vehicle models are incomplete). Viper Racing's physics were very advanced for its time, and the AI, when set to hard, can even get into car-fights with you!

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Screenshots

Viper Racing Windows By exporting the car texture, editing it with a bitmap editor such as Photoshop and importing it back, better looking results (such as the "MobyRacer" here) can be achieved.

Viper Racing Windows A quite common sight for the first races

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Part of the Following Group

Automobile: Dodge Viper

User Reviews

Best damage model of any PC racing sim ever	Adam Luoranen (93)
An overlooked gem that still sparkles after a decade.	SiliconClassics (866)

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Critic Reviews

CyberJoy	May 13, 1999	4.8 out of 5	96
PC Gamer	Mar, 1999	89 out of 100	89
GameSpot	Feb 16, 1999	8.5 out of 10	85
Gameplay (Benelux)	Dec 31, 1998	83 out of 100	83
Power Play	Jan, 1999	82 out of 100	82
Power Unlimited	Mar, 1999	8.1 out of 10	81
Svenska PC Gamer	Mar, 1999	81 out of 100	81
GameStar (Germany)	Jan, 1999	70 out of 100	70
Adrenaline Vault, The (AVault)	Jan 06, 1999		70
Game Over Online	Nov 09, 1998	63 out of 100	63

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Related Web Sites

Viper Racing (official website)
IGCD Internet Game Cars Database (Game page on IGCD, a database that tries to archive vehicles found in video games.)
Viper Racing club (This is a club about the game viper racing)
Viper Racing information (This is a pretty extensive web site for Viper Racing information)

Seer (57) added Viper Racing (Windows) on Jun 13, 2000