Road Rash

Game review

Rough music, leather clothing, plenty of booze and sexy girls - these are the main characteristics of bikers, or at least how most people portray them. The game Road Rash is about motorcycles and playing this game you will... wait for it... confirm all these myths/ideas! In the game you will meet a bunch of people, who have quite a lot of money so they can afford to buy expensive and fast bikes, and their life are not very valuable for them. You will race in with fast bikes and believe me, this game is everything, but not a fair-play, the races are harsh. Each time your opponent will try to overtake you, you can attack him (kick him, punch him,...) and tries to crash his bike. In real life, a fall at a speed of about 200km/hour would be fatal, but in the game is just a small crash, after a short moment you get up get back on the track.

Road Rash contains 5 different tracks and offers 3 game modes: Trash mode (sit on the bike and at play), Big Game Mode (Championship, where you start as a beginner and you have to move to the top) and Mano-a-Mano Game Mode (multiplayer game over a network). Road Rash is not a traditional racing game, where bikers are fair, but the game has a great atmosphere, gameplay and catchy music.

There are several characters to choose from, which differ in graphics, the initial bike, money and the tool with which you will smash your opponents - so choose wisely :) As you start to race, you get selection of 5 locations, which in the first level are about 8 km long (in the last one they are well over 20 km). Aim to complete these races with a minimum finish of third place to advance further. You gradually buy more powerful bikes with the money you earn and fortunately, the prices are quite reasonable.

The competition here is definitely not fair, so you have at your disposal either a very effective kick to the opponent or, depending on the chosen rider, either a fist, a baseball bat or a chain. Opponents use the same thing, so they can appear next to you and wave their chain in the air threateningly. Races are full of adrenaline thanks to this, because combined with tricky tracks, you have to be damn careful about absolutely everything.

Despite outdated graphics Road Rash excels in every other department. It is a blast to play, and will keep even the most die-hard racing fans glued to the screen. It is just one of the best old games ever made.

Hello,

I tried playing this game in the browser but the game window shows "The program cannot run in DOS mode" so unable to play the game. Also, right now I am not able to play this game by downloading it as I am facing other display issue after the race starts...nothing is wrong with your download game file as i installed this game from different sources one by one & each time I faced the same display issue where the bottom half of the screen blacks-out after the race starts...so i am trying to play this game in browser instead of downloading. Please if you can resolve the browser issue, it will be a great help..thanks..

Thanks,
Ruchi

My bad, this game shouldn't be playable online, it's a windows game and there is no good way to play win games online. I've removed the online play.

You have to download the game and run it locally on your computer.

Road Rash is Windows game, you don't need to run the game through DOSBox. Run the game in compatible mode.