Racer

Racer keeps its ambitions refreshingly simple: get behind the wheel and drive. The game focuses on the basic pleasures of racing, with tracks, speed and the constant temptation to brake slightly later than is sensible. Its compact design makes it easy to jump into without learning an enormous collection of controls or management systems. The presentation is modest, but that fits an experience built around straightforward racing rather than spectacle. You can concentrate on finding the quickest line, avoiding mistakes and trying to shave time from your runs. There is something appealing about a racing game that does not insist on turning every lap into a Hollywood production. Racer is a small, focused driving experience for anyone who simply wants to race.

“Racer is a free car simulator project (for non-commercial use), using high-end car physics to achieve a realistic feeling and an excellent render engine for graphical realism.” - Ruud van Gaal

Review by Game Hippo:

“Racer, despite the unoriginal name, is a very nice 3D racing game for 1 or 2 players. You have a nice variety of cars, tracks and various styles of play, pluss, the graphics and sounds are very well done, wich combined, gives you a nice fun gaming experience. In the single player option, you can choose between career mode, training mode, and a cup. While playing career mode, your goal is to win money to buy new and better cars that you can use in furture races. In training, you basicly just race on various tracks, and try to beat the AI. The cup mode is very similar to career mode, the only differences being that you can customize the game settings more and that you can't buy a new car throughout the cup. The multiplayer mode is almost the same, just that you don't have career mode. Unfortunately, I didn't get to try this mode, even though it seemed like alot of fun. I found both the graphics and sound very good, and I can't really think of much too improve. The AI was also well written, which is something that lacks in today's games of this genre. So, if your a racing game lover, this is a game for you!“