game of the week

And my game of the week is....




Rollcage Stage II!!

The late 90's was a time when the PS was king.
The consoles "coolness" was cemented around clubbing and the aggressive marketing of the Wipeout series.
Also the device created the ideal of a licenced soundtrack, and this acted as a hook into the markets that were, hitherto, outside the remit of console gaming.

So far, so good.

But there was another racing series, one that wasn't as high profile as Wipeout, also on the PS and published by Sony via Psygnosis.
Rollcage.
Instead of unwheeled warriors we get cars that are as rough and tumble as toys, levels that are designed around the weapons and speed and did I mention the weapons?

This game does not want you to blink much, not a finesse fest as Wipeout became, adjusting nose attitudes to get the best racing line, flicking the airbrakes left and right, nope, none of that nonsense.
Here we have a car that can run on the ground, upside down, if knocked onto it's back it runs on, having no true up or down to it.
The cars are just sticky enough to make the bizarre racing controllable and it all runs fast, very very fast.
It doesn't want you banging into the sides of the track and grinding to a halt so it does all it can to shift you along.

To me, and I'm a Wipeout fan, the Rollcage games, there were two and a follow up without the name called Firebugs, are more fun by far, the tracks are more colourful.
Certainly the music is more, well, authentically club, Moving Shadow does the tunes and you'll have to hear and see the results of it all yourself...


Speaking of toons!

So, has anyone taken up the challenge?
Any opinions?
Was my tortured nights trying to think of a game of the week all for naught????
Ungrateful wretches!