Death Roads: Tournament

Mechanics

Death Roads: Tournament starts with choosing a driver and a car; our choice affects our starting cards. Next we must choose a sponsor, determining our starting location. After doing so, the game proper begins. The player traverses a cast map, moving along branching roads filled with interest points, marking subsequent races, events or workshop visits.

During races, or rather road battles, there can be only one winner and all sorts of dirty tricks are allowed. Combat, during which the participants constantly try to overtake each other, is turn-based. By playing our cards we can fire weapons mounted on our car and perform various maneuvers - ram our opponents, avoid obstacles or overtake other vehicles. We must also remember to shift gears; by shifting into a higher gear we increase our speed and gain access to more powerful cards.

Between races we visit the workshop, making repairs and installing various upgrades and parts looted off wrecked enemy vehicles (such as new weapons, engines or wheels). We must constantly be on guard, as failure leads to a permanent death, after which we must start all over again (though we still keep everything we've unlocked beforehand).

Technical aspects

The visuals of Death Roads: Tournament make use of an easy readable comic book-like artstyle. The game's rock soundtrack constantly keeps the player going.