A second, better, totally unofficial Dakar game, available on https://dakar2011.sourceforge.net/ this one had rivals you'll meet and pass during each stage!
Whilst the game only has 14 stages (less than Dakar 2010), they're often extremely long. One took over 1 hour 20 minutes! I played this game for over 6 hours to access the stages, as the save game hacking approach I used in Dakar 2010 doesn't work!
The extra crazy bonus cars from Dakar 2010 (supercars for instance) are gone here. The handling is just as somewhat sensitive as the previous game, and sound is... well, there, I suppose! It's the scale of the stages that astonished me, especially as this was made by one developer!
The damage model is a bit more forgiving than before, and you have to keep an eye out for indicators on the side of the screen, as often you'll need to take a junction, etc.
Tip: a note about the scenery: don't increase the visibility limit for objects much beyond 512, as the frame rate will tank and objects will be drawn really sparsely across the landscape.
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