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Freeway Fighter takes place in a post-apocalyptic United States, where a mysterious virus wipes out a large portion of the world's population and leaves a few survivors behind. The latter splits into two groups, one group which wants to be civilized again and another which prefers to live the fun life, wearing impractical clothes and driving cannon-mounted cars. That said, I'm sure there aren't a lot of people to rob in a post-apocalyptic world, so I'm not sure what all these guys really do in their plentiful free time, and who does the expensive repairs and makes the ammo.
So you join one group of survivors in the town of New Hope. An oil refinery offers you an armored tanked filled with petrol in return for some grain. To reach them, you'll need to drive through the lawless wastes in your battle car, ready to rip apart gangs of outlaws in their equally spiky cars.
By the way, this is an Ian Livingstone game, so to win this, you will need to find the one true path. Every now and then, your car will run low on petrol, forcing you to scrounge for petrol somewhere. If you are unable to do so, your car will stall by the side of the road, forcing you to walk home. I don't know, did whoever planned this mission think there would be gas stations along the way to fill up for this long roadtrip?
So you will need to find some petrol on the way, or find the important key items which will allow you to extract the petrol later on. One involves winning a really violent car race which should taken a large amount from the tank, but ehh...
Combat plays out differently here, with the usual melee combat, as well as car combat and gunfighting combat. This adds a bit of spice to the usual Fighting Fantasy formula. It's a pretty fun change from the usual knights-and-castles fantasy setting, and I liked it.
That said, winning this can be a huge exercise in frustration to find the one true path. I liked the idea as a whole, but the tedium just isn't fun.
Also, this game takes place in the United States, right? Why are we calling it petrol and not gasoline?
