Create-A-Game I Year 2007

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System: PS3 or 360
Genre: Sandbox Racer
Story: Race from Los Angeles to New York City (who knows why anyone does these things)
Graphic style: What else...its a GTA-clone (aren't they all these days)


The Great Race

This is an online persistent world race ala cannonball run or It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world.

The goal is to get from one side of the US to the other. Races start everyday as newcomers arrive with races starting at 3 hour intervals. Along the way you can customize your vehicle, sell it, buy another, steal from stores, steal other people's cars. go to jail, escape from jail, take a train (terribly boring, lots of stops...nice poker room, though), steal a helicopter, if you can fly it...you need some education to fly those thigs, you know. Whatever moves, you can use. Just get from Los Angeles to New York as fast as possible.

But what happens when you want to stop playing? Where do you save? You save by sleeping, but you don't want to end up robbed, in jail, or dead, so you best find a good hiding spot. Some areas of the game are so barren that they couldn't find you if your life depended upon it. More populated areas, however, are death traps. Some players comb alleyways and abandoned buildings looking for logged out players to have their way with. Of course if you can't find a good place to hide, you can always pay for protection. It is rumored that there are safe houses along the way that will provide protection and a bed, for a hefty price. One other alternative are the churches and mosques and other holy sites. There's no killing allowed in these buildings (Thank you Resistance: Fall of Man), so you can get a bit of shuteye in these sacred temples. But be warned, walking OUT of these places may take a bit of fighting as some immoral players love to walk that moral ambiguity of what it means to be in/out of a building. Needless to say, come out cocked and loaded and ready for hell.

By the way...death isn't death. But it does set you back to the previous state.
If you don't have a warrant out for your arrest you can even visit a hospital to heal yourself, if you have the money. But be careful of what they give you to cure your pain. Some drugs affect your driving abilities. That goes for recreational use. Booze cruising...while great fun, tends to end up with your car on the side of the road in a ditch and you hoofing it to the next town. Some players have been known to hold their liquor and actually claim to drive better after a couple shots of JD. The choice is yours.