This game is probably my favourite PS1 video game. It's not a classic racing game but it's more complex. Different rules with different ways to play on tracks. Maybe the game is a bit too much difficult.
I love this game, it was first kart racer i've ever played (at 2000, on TNT2 m64 and PIII 600 mhz).
I really like it's car physics and power upsweapons. Graphics in 2000 was good. Today Mario Kart 8 is of course much better, but today it plays (IMO) much better than Mario Kart from SNES (on Switch).
Tracks are nice, and game modes are original (there are many really far from standard racing), so the "campaing" is much more varied than Mario Kart 8. For example: fist track is standard race; in second one wins the player who brought trophy to 4. checkpoint (so you can fight for trophy at the beginning and race to 1., 2. etc. checpoint or just take it over just before 4. checkpoint); at third race you have take over cure bottle, and run away from other racers, and You'll win when Your % od Cure will reach 0% (all other players want to take bottle form You, when You lost it You're trying to take it back).
This game has only one great disadvantage in my opinion, unforgiving championship mode without any saves. If you want to unlock all tracks you've to finish the championship in one session. Yoy've to win all races, with only 5 lives (continues). In arcade mode you'll have acces only to maps unlocked in championship mode. So it's hard game, with a lot of grind.
This difficulty is similar to old NES games, or even arcade machine games. In 2000 I've played it hundreds of hours, but never ended the game. Today it is very nostalgic game for me - but after twenty years I cant find time to end i'ts "souls like" campaign.
Despite bad metascore, I'think that in 2000 it was good kart racer, just needed few tweaks. Even today, remaked version of this game could be a great kart racer.
It was the best south park game (before The Stick of Truth) - and I really cant understand negativew reviews in old press.
Games is availible on some abandonware sites, and works flawless on Windows 11 64 bit.
This game controls bad and has the most ugliest graphics of the nintendo 64 library. The courses are repetitive and this game is very unplayable. This game is trash.
A Mario Kart ripoff. Why did they release this game. This is one of the worst racing games I've ever played. Terrible controls, terrible music and terrible graphics. South Park Rally is an epic failure