Stunts (PC DOS) longplay

Developed by Distinctive Software and first released in 1990, about 1,5 years before Wolf3D. This is 1991 patched version. Stunts was renamed to 4D Sports Driving for later releases. Best 3D driving games at the time were the likes of Stunt Car Racer, Test Drive and Hard Drivin'. Stunts borrows mainly from Hard Drivin', but expands further. Best thing about Stunts is the track editor, still rather unique feature for a 3D racing game. Creating new tracks and sharing those with friends was fun.

There's no campaign mode, but there are 6 originally designed tracks and 6 opponents to race against. In this longplay opponents are challenged with increasing difficulty level and with different vehicles on different tracks. There are 11 cars in total and some are barely able to make small jumps.

Opponents always receive a better or at least equal car compared to me. I was kind of hoping to at least get a little racing going, but CPU doesn't play so well. With fast cars they are either too fast to catch or just crash. With equal or slightly better cars to player they either crash or hit the breaks to max with every obstacle on the road.

Faster cars mostly seem to have better handling, but it's possible to spin any car with sufficient speed and heavy steering. Some damage physics exist and colliding with CPU slightly might break steering. Jumps are very forgiving, only by landing upside down is enough to cause a crash, but there's only a slight change not to crash when gracing a structure at slow speeds.

01:34 Race 1: Bernie - Acura NSX vs Audi Quattro - Default track
04:46 Race 2: Otto - Ferrari GTO vs Ferrari GTO - Joes track
07:30 Race 3: Joe - Ferrari GTO vs Lamborghini Countach - Bernies track
11:47 Race 4: Cherry - Porsche March vs Porsche 962 - Skids track
14:42 Race 5: Helen - Porsche March vs Jaguar XJR9 - Cherries track
20:13 Race 6: Skid - Porsche March vs Porsche March - Helens track
26:26 Level editor and few glitchy crash replays
31:00 CPU reactions - crashing both cars - player crash - CPU win without player crashing