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Rock N' Roll Racing

The stage is set, the green flag drops! Cue Paranoid by Black Sabbath and crack open some delicious Sunkist, because we're about to blast off into some Rock N' Roll racing -- in space!

We really loved the idea of Auto Assault but the end-product felt very unfocused and almost too serious for its own good. Cars that race around and shoot at each other with crazy-ridiculous guns is just begging for a little tongue-in-cheek treatment.

Seeing as how fantasy MMOs seem like they're on the way out right now -- and considering that this game was set in space with racers traveling to different planets -- it's perfect for thw new modern mentality. Plus the original had a very engaging upgrading system for players' cars that could easily be built upon and expanded to include levels, loot and all that good n' grindy stuff. It also didn't hurt that everything about the game was over-the-top wild n' crazy eighties-in-space action and thus incredibly memorable even to this day.

16/07/08