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Overview
Merry Christmas! Strap on your goggles and open the throttle — Snowmobile Racing brings high-speed snowmobile racing to the PC. This new release from Second South Studios lets you rev up one of five different high-performance sleds and go screaming across the frozen wilderness. While its straightforward approach may not come up to the demanding standards of fans of top-end racing games like Need For Speed III, Snowmobile Racing does provide simple, easy-to-use controls and fast, fun gameplay.
Gameplay, Controls, Interface
This is one of the easiest games to play that I’ve seen in a long time. The sled controls are simple enough for anyone to play, even younger kids. After selecting your sled and track, you take off for five laps around one of four tracks ranging from Iowa Farm Fields to a twisting race through Yellowstone Park. More tracks would have been nice, but the four available do provide a good balance of difficulty. There are five snowmobiles to choose from, including the ultimate snow racing machine — the GOAT Highmark. There’s also a hidden sixth vehicle to race — click on the small red ATV in the background of the sled selection screen to tear up the snow on four wheels. You can opt to race alone or race against four computer opponents. At the hardest setting, even experienced racers will find it challenging to beat the computer racers around the more difficult tracks.
A fun arcade racer that will keep you going back to the snow for more.
Starcraft by Blizzard Entertainment
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At the time of this article, StarCraft is 10 years and 10 months old, yet far away from being abandonware. In the past week, Blizzard has released an official patch, probably making it the oldest updated game and last Thursday UC Berkeley started teaching StarCraft courses to its students.. Given the recent buzz, here is GameGoldie’s review of StarCraft!
Overview
This is a real-time strategy game like Age of Empires, Command & Conquer and some of the other titles, such as the Warcraft series, that Blizzard has produced. You play one of 3 races: the humanoid Terrans, the bug-like Zerg or the reptilian Protoss. Each race has its own advantages, with unique units, graphics and personality. There’s actually a fairly well-developed storyline for the game in the players’ guide, with histories of each race and run-downs of the characters you’ll encounter in the campaigns. The setting is 24th-Century futuristic, after Earth citizens have burned themselves out and have migrated to other parts of the galaxy. They run into the Zerg and the Protoss while fighting for planetary dominance on the Galactic Rim.
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