If you've got a PC that was entry-level a year ago, then Screamer Rally really should feature in your collection. Multiplayer network play is a real laugh, and because the tracks are quite tight and the cars slide all over the place it's pretty easy to catch up with the pack even if you spin off.

It's fun, if a little old-looking, but a bargain at this price. It's obviously not as good as playing over a network, and the frame rate sometimes suffers, but don't knock it. Screen mode that enables you and a chum to race mano y mano. Track detail is pretty high considering the game's age, but it's not going to make you go: 'Ooh! Look at that!' MultiplayerĪs well as a six-player network option, there's a rather nice split. Once you've won everything, the tracks are mirrored and you can race them all again. There are six traditional courses in all: China, Canada, Italy, Arizona, Sweden and, er, Wales, as well as a stadium-based course that looks like something out ot Super Mario Kart. The detail isn't up to the standard of the other games on test here, but the cars handle well and quite differently on different surfaces, though their appearance isn't affected by collisions. You can alter the set-up of your car(s) and save them, though this doesn't seem to have much of an effect. There are eight cars, plus bonus ones they have made-up names but you should recognise them.

It may be starting to look a little dated, but Screamer Rally still stands up well against the other games reviewed here, so if you haven't got kick-ass kit you can still enjoy it without the frame rate suffering too much. Once you've won on all the courses and bonus courses, found the bonus cars and won the championship at the hardest level, the tracks become mirrored and you can race them all again. Packed with every feature you'd expect to find in a driving game, Screamer Rally has more built-in longevity than Cliff Richard's sperm.Īs well as the three levels of difficulty and one-off arcade and championship modes, you can participate in time trials against ghost cars of your own best times, and there's also full-on network support and a splitscreen mode. The last to grace our screens, and arguably the best, was the highly acclaimed Screamer Rally, released just over a year ago. No driving game round-up would be complete without one of the enormously popular Screamer titles.

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