Considering its relatively affordable budget pricing, Saturday Night Speedway certainly delivers more variety than one would expect. One of precious few race-game developers to even offer a career, Ratbag goes the extra distance with such key elements as car repair, car upgrades, sponsorship dealings, and more. Saturday Night Speedway gives you five flavors of racing joy, including practice, time trial, single races, championship, and the pièce de résistance, the career. This is a lot of diversity right out of the chute, but Ratbag doesn't stop here. The game offers 13 separate real-life tracks to start with and another half-dozen fantasy courses that become available as you unlock them. You'll rarely feel lonely in the jam-packed bullrings of Saturday Night Speedway.įor Saturday Night Speedway, Ratbag brings us three of its past subjects-the duct-taped, old-time Pro Stock cars, the comparatively powerful and expensive Late Models, and the high-energy dune buggies known as Midgets (similar to World of Outlaws vehicles but without the massive top-mounted wings).
Though newcomers may well find it enjoyable, anyone who's wheeled into the Ratbag paddock before will undoubtedly feel a less-than-ecstatic sense of déjà vu all over again. Displaying comparable physics, comparable graphics, and, sadly, many of the same quirks that didn't seem so irritating five years ago, Saturday Night Speedway simply seems like one more kick at a can that's been booted around before. With its latest mud-flinging automotive exercise, Ratbag combines three distinct racing classes into one game but otherwise proves that complacency is not a good thing. Since then, Ratbag has released a variety of sequels and semisequels without ever significantly modifying Dirt Track's fundamental presentation, a strategy that's unfortunately grown thinner and thinner as the years have rolled by.
Australian developer Ratbag opened more than a few eyes in 1999 with its gritty ode to off-pavement automotive competition, Dirt Track Racing.
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