subject: Virtual Environment of Car Games [print this page] Car Games present marvelous motor racing treats that require strategic play for the player to beat the opponents. As with other racing engagements, there is a range of challenges to overcome, over several stages. These barriers are peculiar to the given virtual setting. For example, deserts have dust storms while forest terrains pop up stumps along the way.
The virtual environment of this competition is exceptional in the sense that one can does not have to play in real time throughout the race. Whatever point the player pauses at before signing off from the engagement, is resumed at that exact moment in the next session. The background is enhanced by graphics and sounds that are complementary to the task.
Some of the challenges to face in Car Games are framed around the racing stages. In most cases, there are five stages and all of them difficult to traverse. The first may be over a flat desert terrain, which is succeeded by icy tracks before the night descends over the road and one must put on the lights to see ahead. The final levels present rainy conditions and forests. If the player finishes first at each level, a more difficult way unfolds before them where they must not only beat the other automated motors to the finishing line but must negotiate over the geographical barriers specific to the given stage.
There are two types of vehicles from which to choose, conversely a high-velocity but incontrollable one and a slow but manageable kind. The guide to any selection is the way to drive them. For example, while speed may make it necessary to acquire the one that has high acceleration, racing within the confines of the track may make it necessary to avail the other manageable type. However, as the difficulties along the road increase, speed becomes a secondary factor and steering and maneuvering skills take center stage. There is a host of other computerized opponents with varying effectiveness. Some can be overcome by sheer force of the hard terrain while the faster ones can be overtaken through skillful driving like leaping over shorter barriers like snow mounds.
In this realistic setting of Car Games, the player has the advantage of seeing other competitors in 3-D. This not only adds to the excitement of the race but also makes it possible to reconnoiter the movements of the other motors along the way. There are scoreboards along the way that inform of the progress made including time covered per stage and in the overall sequence. These also inform of the maximum record time that one can aspire to reach or break.
