Demolition Racer

Demolition Racer is a vehicular combat racing video game for the PlayStation and PC that combines destruction and driving tactics in a fast-paced racing environment. It is very similar to the Destruction Derby series. The PC version contained slightly better in-game graphics than the PlayStation version, and included varied weather and times of day. Drivers are given (optional) wacky portraits which displayed on the side of the screen in a race, showing who's ahead of who.

Demolition Racer
PAL cover art for the PlayStation
Developer(s)Pitbull Syndicate
Publisher(s)Infogrames
Platform(s)PlayStation, Microsoft Windows, Dreamcast
ReleasePlayStation
  • EU: 1999
  • NA: 31 August 1999
Microsoft Windows
  • NA: 20 October 1999
Dreamcast
  • NA: 23 October 2000
Genre(s)Vehicular combat, racing
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

The game was re-released for the Dreamcast as Demolition Racer: No Exit, which featured new tracks, new cars, unlockable mini games, and an additional mode called "No Exit", which plays the same as Last Man Standing in the other games. In No Exit's version of Last Man Standing, the player must now try to survive as long as possible. The game was also redesigned and enhanced. For example, the graphics were upgraded (same goes for the HUD and menus), the levels now have ambient sound effects (such as crowds cheering), and all of the drivers' cars are also shown on the results screen in what condition they were left with at the end of a race.

Reception
Reception
Review scores
PublicationScore
DreamcastPCPS
AllGameN/A[1]N/A
CGSPN/A[2]N/A
EGMN/AN/A6.75/10[3]
Game Informer8/10[4]N/A7.5/10[5]
GameFan70%[6]N/AN/A
GamePro[7][8][9]
GameRevolutionB+[10]N/AN/A
GameSpot7.8/10[11]7.8/10[12]6.4/10[13]
IGN6.8/10[14]N/A7.8/10[15]
Next Generation[16]N/A[17]
OPM (US)N/AN/A[18]
Aggregate scores
GameRankings76%[19]54%[20]73%[21]
Metacritic77/100[22]N/AN/A

Jeff Lundrigan reviewed the PlayStation version of the game for Next Generation, rating it one star out of five, and stated that "Steer clear of this smoking wreck."[17]

Demolition Racer: No Exit received "generally favourable reviews" according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.[22]

Jeff Lundrigan reviewed the Dreamcast version of the game for Next Generation, rating it three stars out of five, and stated that "This still isn't living up to its potential, but it's a fun title nonetheless."[16]

References
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  3. EGM staff (November 1999). "Demolition Racer (PS)". Electronic Gaming Monthly. No. 124. Ziff Davis.
  4. "Demolition Racer: No Exit". Game Informer. No. 91. FuncoLand. November 2000.
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  17. Lundrigan, Jeff (November 1999). "Finals". Next Generation. Vol. 2 no. 3. Imagine Media. p. 119.
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