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Customer Reviews of RC Cars

I had played the demo from a PC Gamer CD, which also ran great. The game is very pretty to look at, the cars are well modeled and the scenery is great. The sound is fantastic, with different sounds for all the different wheels on different surfaces, spinning, sliding, skidding, and you can really hear your opponents closing in. The tracks offer great variety, and the different upgrades you earn along the way really impact the performance of the car. You can also decide to sell your car and buy another. Initially, you start with a monster truck, but can buy a sand buggy or a 6 wheeled monster, both of which can be upgraded as you win more money.

Far and away the selling point of the game, however, is the driving experience. The controls are responsive, but not touchy. The cars behave as RC cars that have heavier physics; they slide and steer (and hit each other) almost like full size cars, but with no damage (other than smacking the shins of the morans who keep wandering in the way!).

The races stay very close; even if you have a setback, if you run consistently, you can get back in it. It's also very hard to simply wipe out the competition too. The tracks are wide enough and best of all, the check points are fairly forgiving. Nothing ruins a racing game faster for me than checkpoints that keep dodging out of the way.

Downsides to the game-
Only three cars
No way to modify looks of cars (other than upgrades)
Only 3 levels of upgrades
Only 3 items to upgrade Tires, Engine, Boost

If you're in the mood for serious racing (NASCAR 2003 type game), keep looking. But if you want to spend a few minutes just PLAYING, this game is perfect.

RC Cars - full of bugs!
I bought a copy of the radio controlled car game because it looked like it might be fun for my son, age 11. In this game, you control radio controlled cars around different interactive environments and it has some real life things happening, like dogs chasing you, real cars running you over and people kicking the cars out of the way. It sounded like fun.

First, I was unable to even install this game on my PC. I kept getting an error 1311 and it would shut down the installer. Whiptail has no tech support phone number (they are in Russia), so you must use email to address problems. This is very slow and sometimes I doubted if they were even reading my email properly. Some of the responses were just innane.

Anyway, their tech support was always wrong and was never able to solve the problem.

Finally I gave up on tech support and I started searching the net on my own for solutions. Eventually, I found that I had to copy the entire CD to my hard drive and then install it from there. Then delete the files on the HD. OK, so I got it installed. Now when I start the game.....the sound is intermittant!

Sometimes there is music, sometimes there is sound FX, but usually, it is just silent. That sure makes for a fun game, doesn't it? Absolute silence. Maybe a even beep once in a while would be nice. Instead you get a second of sound followed by minutes of silence.

Aside from these glaring problems with the game, this game is sort of fun to drive around in. There are plenty of ways to go and plenty of things to hit. If you hit a person, they will kick your car, or throw it about 25 feet away. Dogs attack you, and crabs attack you on the beach. The tracks are challenging and the graphics are pretty good too.

If only I had some sounds..........