Battletrack

Battletrack is a 2D combat racer. You drive around a series of 4 tracks trying to both win the race and take out the other cars. You have a gun, but it's only activated after the first lap and has a limit of 180 shots that never get replenished throughout the entire race. You start out in 8th place, which puts you around half a track behind, at least in the first race. You have a health bar that is divided into 2 sections; when the first section runs out you you slow down and spill oil that causes all cars the drive over it to skid, and when the second section runs out you get a game over. The game suffers from rather serious framerate issues that seem to clear up around halfway through a race.

My opinion: Aside from the crippling framerate issues this game is hard. I was unable to even complete the first race, although I imagine I'd have been able to if I hadn't spent the first half of the race crashing into things because I couldn't stop focusing on the FPS issues. The controls are also kinda inaccurate and the gun does very little damage. I think that game is too difficult for the small amount of depth provided. There's no real reward for actually trying to master it and no real way to get better aside from repeatedly losing until you get the hand of the awkward controls.

Battletrack is by Robbert Prins. You can find it here.