Indeed, your car is so close to the edge that you can scarcely see what lies ahead. Does the road turn right, or left? Is there an obstacle just in front of you, or not? And then, just as you think things couldn't get any weirder, your car drives completely off the edge of your monitor. Though the camera eventually does catch up, the brief disappearing act sends you off a bridge. Race over. Drive to Survive is a top-down combat racer that is as erratically odd as its pedigree is convoluted.
First appearing on European PCs back in and going through at least two other incarnations -- one as a PlayStation 2 title -- it has re-emerged in North America in as a budget-priced console-to-computer port.
How much of a port is it? The menus do not support mice. The game itself does not support joysticks or wheels -- not that a top-down racer really calls for a wheel -- and instead works only with the keyboard or a gamepad.
You can't even change your control assignments without first exiting the game and launching an external control setup utility. Drive to Survive doesn't bring a ton of new perks to the genre, though there is a reasonably entertaining game in here underneath the truly bizarre, potentially deal-breaking camera troubles discussed earlier.
Variety is certainly one of its strengths. In Drive to Survive, you could be on the aforementioned ice rink, or you could be off in the desert somewhere. You could be cruising the jam-packed highways of a modern North American megalopolis, zipping along a maze of hyper-elevated roadways, or twisting through a mountain pass. The cars you drive and compete against change up almost as often as the scenery.
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Play Instructions: Install the game - Full Installation. In previous isometric 3D racers such as Micro Machines, if you're knocked out of a round in a race involving more than two people in multiplayer, you have to sit and twiddle your gaming thumbs until you're allowed to rejoin. Developer Supersonic has obviously noted that this can be frustrating and has come up with the air strike. This allows the other one or two players knocked out of a round to continue participating in the game by giving them the fantastic ability to direct unlimited missiles at the remaining racers.
You're given a square on-screen target that you have to hold over the racer you want to target for a few seconds before it turns into a circle and locks on.
Then you simply press the launch button and watch your missile close in on its intended victim, who can attempt to avoid destruction by weaving about the course. The air strikes provide an element of unpredictability and also an extra level of vindictiveness during Mashed races, and in our many hours of playing the preview code in the office, they proved to be a laugh-out-loud, inspired addition to the genre.
Browse games Game Portals. Mashed: Drive to Survive. Install Game. Click the "Install Game" button to initiate the file download and get compact download launcher. Locate the executable file in your local folder and begin the launcher to install your desired game.
Game review Downloads Screenshots Languages :. Publisher: Strategy First. Share Embed. Add to Cart. View Community Hub. About This Game Mashed is a top down racing game that pits up to four players against each other.
Compete over 13 challenging and diverse environments using whatever means necessary to batter and bruise your opponents into submission. Using a plethora of weapons or just your driving skills unleash your fury, cause absolute carnage and send your friends to a humiliating defeat!
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