Whiplash

The Good
This game I picked up in Interplay's 15th anniversary collection (an excellent deal, by the way).

The Graphics are sweet. Nice colors, great looking courses, and NO slowdown on a P233 (without the music playing, more on that later). 16 cars grace the field, and each looks nice. Fast flying graphics! This game really cruises, and it really give the sense of going 200+ mph. 16 Nicely created courses (8 to begin with, 8 unlocked after winning the championship on Medium difficulty or higher) each created for a specific car (8 car manufacturers, 16 courses).

The Sound is good. Adequate for the time it was released. Typical rev-ving sound of engines...

The Control is loose with the keyboard, but it's not bad for a keyboard control.
It can get difficult, especially when learning new courses.

The Bad
The Music is horrible. With the music playing, it's slow... reaaaaalll slow. But the frame rate triples when the music is off, so needless to say, I play with the music off.

Crash detection is off, and the physics model is pretty weird, you don't really ever flip over unless you hit a jump that causes you to flip over.

Also, allowing the ability to play all 16 courses straight out of the box would have been nice (type GOLDBOY as your name, and you'll get access to the other 8 courses, by the way).

The Bottom Line
It a fun game for non-sim car fans. Serious players, look elsewhere.

The Good
This game has it all for a racing game and slaps in a little more when you least it expect it. When you load this addictive game in you have wide selection of cars which are all special in their own way, a wonderful graphical menu which is easy to use, nifty graphics and wonderful sound. This is the ultimate game for playing with two or more players and will bring hours of discussion after the game is played especially with the game's inclusion of fast pace stunt tracks which will get you cheering in amazement or complaining in upset.

The Bad
The game, in extreme rare cases, crashes your system during a cruical point of the game which would get you upset. But as I said it would RARELY happen.

The Bottom Line
If you play only one racing game in your lifetime make sure it has Fatal (or Whiplash) in the title and it was developed by Interplay.

The Good
I really just liked everything about this game. Although my computer was able to run the game in SVGA mode I prefered to use VGA because the game just ran so much faster and was even more enjoyable to play. The tracks are also well designed. They include everything from corkscrews to loop-the-loops and I found that occasionally if you hit a wall just right you may find yourself launched high into the air. I found this just plain bizzare when it first happened. The two-player mode is also fun which means that you can race against another human opponent on the same computer.

The Bad
Quite often during a race you will find that one of the computer controlled cars would drive the wrong way round a track. If you are winning a race and you hit a car coming in the opposite direction then you can risk losing your position in the race.

The Bottom Line
Overall Fatal Racing is an excellent racing game. The game runs well in SVGA but even better in VGA mode. Even though sometimes slightly odd things can happen like being able to drive through walls and end up landing UNDER the race track can happen I have had years of enjoyment out of this game.