Masterpiece! One of my favorite racing games of all time! I've played it back in '96, and still replaying it regularly since then (it's free on Steam!). I just finished my latest replay yesterday :) Unfortunately the remake from 2012 is trash...
This masterpiece ****, had the most fun I ever had with a car game, and I played Carmageddon (1997) before! This game Death Rally is a year before Carmageddon. And all I can say it is indeed fun to play. The writing is funny, the cars honk, you can hit people, shoot the other, put down mines, ram them, buy upgrades to your car etc... IN 1994! I was not even alive for 7 more years man! 10/10
Death Rally is a pretty simple combat racing game, with something of an RPGish career mode. The combat is fun, and the difficulty curve is just right I think, as the random saboteur deals and drug runs let you set the challenge to the level you want.
I wrote a negative review of the 2012 remake of Death Rally and put it here by accident, so until someone notices that this isn't a real review and deletes this placeholder text, just know that I don't hate this game. The remake was trash. This original is a'ok. Not great, not awful. Just "decent".