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Screamer is a single-player racing game released for MS-DOS computers made by Milestone S.r.l. and published by Virgin Interactive. The game has polygon-like graphics, similar to games around that era. The game would get an version that emulates DOSBox that runs the game released by GOG.com in 2009 for Windows[1], and released for Mac OS X in 2012[2]. A sequel for the game named Screamer 2 was released in 1996.

The music of the game was composed by British video game composer Allister Brimble[3]. Unlike it's other sequels, Screamer 2, Screamer Rally and Screamer 4x4 it uses software rendering. The game is also pre-packaged with the MS-DOS emulator, DOSBox.

Bugs

All versions of the game can crash in SVGA mode, regardless of platform with no fix.

Public reception

The game was reviewed by a reviewer for Maximum honored the game for it's high speed, smooth graphics, the selection of vehicles, numerous options and modes, and gave the game 5 out of 5 stars[4]. The game was also praised by a reviewer for Next Generation[5].

The game was nominated as the best racing game of 2001, but lost to NASCAR Racing 4[6].

In March 1997, an advertisement for the game showed a car wreckage with the slogan "Every Christmas the roads are full of mad men. Join them" which caused controversy[7].

References

  1. ↑ https://www.gog.com/forum/general_archive/surprise_release_screamer/page1
  2. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20121028164332/https://www.gog.com/news/gogcom_adds_interplay_games_for_mac_os_x
  3. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20060205051727/orchestralmedia.co.uk/OrchestralMediaPortfolio.pdf
  4. ↑ "Maximum Reviews: Screamer". Maximum: The Video Game Magazine. No. 2. Emap International Limited. November 1995. p. 158.
  5. ↑ "Screamer". Next Generation. No. 17. Imagine Media. May 1996. pp. 98, 101.
  6. ↑ Staff (March 2002). "11th Annual Computer Games Awards". Computer Games Magazine (136): 50–56.
  7. ↑ "Videogames Continue to Shock the System". Next Generation. No. 27. Imagine Media. March 1997. p. 19.

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