Muscle Car 3 DEMO

Muscle cars are all about power and looks, since the technology used in their creation is definitely not something to brag about, considering the fact that they were mostly built around the 70's and the 80's. They do, however, manage to achieve some impressive top speeds, mainly due to the large engines they hold under their hoods.

In Muscle Car 3, these vehicles are put at your disposal in order for you to participate in a variety of street races, to gain money and points to unlock even more events. Naturally, since the races take place in the city, the traffic might cause you a bit of trouble, especially since the streets are not that wide and there is never enough time to break and avoid a collision.

To top things off, the police is also on your tale in some races, making it even more difficult to stay in the competition and pass the finish line unharmed. On the other hand, the game features a separate mode in which you get to drive the cop car and chase the other racers, scoring points whenever you put one of them out of the race. To achieve that, all you have to do is hit their car a certain number of times.

One thing that might put you off when you first go out on a race is the very arcade-based control of the cars, which disregard inertia entirely and let you take sharp turns at dizzying speeds. Collisions do not mean a thing either, since you barely lose any momentum and the car is as good as new, since no damage system is used.

The graphic quality is more than decent, though, especially when it comes to the highly-detailed vehicles and the nicely modeled environments. The surrounding city is filled with beautiful buildings and various other objects, while the traffic cars emulate real vehicle models for a more realistic feeling. A bit more work could have gone into the sound, on the other hand, since most of the vehicles sound the same and the music quickly gets repetitive.

Muscle Car 3 features some interesting and thoroughly enjoyable events, but the fact that the cars do not obey the laws of physics can be quite difficult to overlook, especially since it basically takes all the adrenaline of the speed away from you. Hence, there's no reason not to push the cars to the max, since nothing can go wrong, even if you run into walls or hit the incoming traffic.