Reckless Racing

Reckless Racing by Polarbit software was the winner of the 2010 best racing game of the year for Android awarded by Pocket Gamer. They are a British website and video game magazine with a very loyal following in the UK.

The game costs $4.99 on the Android Market, it is not available in the Amazon Android Marketplace. I have included the link above to the Lite version so you can try it out for free and decide if its worth spending the money for the complete game.

This is a very fun racer with excellent controls and beautiful graphics, they really went all out with the attention to details. The physics model is what sets the game apart, crashing and flipping the car or breaking through a fence and watching the splinters fly about make for realistic mayhem.

Single player mode only has five tracks and once you complete a course you can then play it in reverse, there are also a few different modes to keep things interesting. If that were all there was to the game then I would never recommend it, after a few hours and beating all the tracks there really wouldn't be any replay value.

What would make it worth buying? Multi player is where its at. Playing against other real humans has always been the best reason to buy a game where you would normally be pitted against artificial opponents. Reckless Racing allows you to play over wifi via the Internet. Choose a user name and click internet and you enter the game lobby, within seconds you can join a game or host your own.

So give the trial version a shot and if you enjoy it then you can probably justify buying it just for the multiplayer action. Hopefully you have an Android with at least a 1GHz processor, anything less than that may have a hard time rendering the graphics in this processor hungry game.

The original title for the game was Deliverance and if your old enough to remember the movie you'll understand why when you hear the theme music as the game starts. This game could just as well have been called redneck racing lol, so give it a whirl and as always enjoy!