SteveWinwood
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You know those punk highway gangs, the ones who really think they rule the road? You just hate them, don’t you? So you say, ‘Somebody ought to do something about them criminal highway gangs!’ And we says, ‘Oh yeah?! Well, why don’t YOU do something, mister big-mouth!’. You don’t have the car? We’ll give you the car! You don’t want to get arrested for taking the law into your own hands? Not a problem! You know why? Because it AIN’T REAL! It’s a whole lot better than real, baby! It’s virtual television: reality’s worst nightmare!
MegaRace was the Crysis of it's time. This shit looked amazing when you were 6.
I, and many others, got this game for free when my family got a new PB computer and boy did I play the crap out of it. I didn't realize until way later that it's not actually a racing game but more of a shooter on rails. Still awesome.
You play as THE ENFORCER who is charged with virtually wiping out a bunch of virtual gangs on virtual tracks in a virtual reality reality show. So you drive in a super fast car with machine guns on it and blow up some dudes for future fat people to watch while they sit on their couch. Yeah it's awesome.
Oh and then there is the star of our show... LANCE BOYLE
This dude is so awesome. He is your fmv host and he explains everything going down in the deep canon of MegaRace. He introduces you to the level, and the gang you'll be blowing up, and even giving out prizes! He is also really 90s. And by 90s I mean cool as shit. Oh and he was the doctor in Heavy Rain.
So you hook up your joystick and you start cruising through corkscrews on some purple planet with factories and avoiding little signs on the track you don't know what they mean and all of a sudden it hits you. This music rocks socks.
Yes.
Yes it does.
It's by the same guy who did the Dune soundtrack, Stéphane Picq, and boy does he know awesome music.
It has everything you could want in a game: Humor, a whole bunch of "different" cars, violence, racing. What else is there?
You just won yourself a prize enforcer! Come and take a look!
So at the end of the day this shit is on gog.com and you should buy it and play it. I don't know who gets the money if you buy it because I'm pretty sure the company went out of business but whatever.