Drift Rally Racing (2015) - Every PC Rally Game
0Drift Rally Racing by Funright Productions, 2015.
This is a small and highly buggy rally game available on Microsoft Store. It consists of 2 environments (desert and snow) and a collection of cars lifted from Xform Games' "Rally Point" and "Burnin' Rubber" series (as Xform sold the models on various sites, so they might be legitimately used here, though I'm not sure).
Handling is okay and graphics are nice enough, but let's list the issues with this one...
1. The game is jerky, if run fullscreen or in a non-maximised window, regardless of graphics card settings. It's why I'm running it in a maximised window here (with the navigation bar showing), as it's smoother then.
2. The pop-up adverts are broken and just keep trying to load forever.
3. Phone control buttons are always overlaid, even when playing with the keyboard (it features optional tilt control so I suspect was more made for Windows Phones).
4. Music is too loud (and only plays one track whilst racing). This might also be a commercial track, as car selection screens feature a clip of "Fever For The Flava" by Hot Action Cop (definitely unlicensed!).
5. You can only choose to turn off all the sound, so it's either loud music, or no sound at all!
6. There is no checking of your route, so you are able to drive over mountains direct to the finish line, with no need to pass checkpoints.
7. You can actually win a stage by reversing at the start, then driving through the start gate, so a stage can be completed in just a few seconds!
8. The Best Lap on every stage is 2 seconds, which is unbeatable, even by using the reverse/accelerate glitch mentioned above.
8. Some challenges/single races load a different car to the one shown in the thumbnail.
9. There's no reward for unlocking all the races.
10. The (somewhat pointless) drift score can keep clocking up forever when you cross the finish line.
So, what started out looking like an inoffensive arcade rally game turned into a buggy, cheatable monster! I'd avoid this one!
This is part of the Every PC Rally Game playlist, which you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYDobL0b26ugFuXASCIC9qmFb9_k4_fqU